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President: Lteut. Col. W. Chester S. MeLuro Vice-President: J. B. Burnett. FJJ. secretory: Lleilt. Cut. D. A. Maelktunon. 0.8.0. Editor knd Mnmblin] Director: J. B. Burnett. IJJ. Associate Editors: rrauk Walker and Ueut. Ian A Burnett, B-UZNALIL t0n Active Service)

‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker The! the Weakest Ink."

SATURDAY. DEC. ll. rm Liberal Press Comment

The llzllifzix Chronicle (Liberal) concedes that the Federal .\liiiistel' of Agriculture has been "tinforlttiizite of late" in his method of dealing willi the liticoii situation. “Broadly speaking," it says, ".\lr. Gardiner appears to have a decidedly. national outlook on the matter ...lIc thinks it would be bad policy to urge Canadian fartiiers to raise unusually large nun.- licrs of hogs unless Britain can guarantee that she will continue to take all the Canadian bacon offered alter the war.” The Chronicle quotes the assurance given by the British Food Minis- ter, Col. Llewclyn, that the Canadian farmer necd ll2l\'C no fear that by going into hog produc- tion he iviiultl be building tip a market that would melt away in time of peace. It accepts this iii preference to .\lr. Gardiner's statement, and it adds:

“.\ctuall'v, Cillliulfl. should have the finest op- portunity in the world to retain an unprecedent- cd trade with llrilain after the war, in more atgflCltllllilll products than ever. It will be a long time before her old Scandinavian rivals conic back as large-scale producers, and Bri- tish gratitude for (Taiizidian assistance in this time of iii-ed will give a decided preference to Canadian goods.

"The best policy, probably, for Canada to fol- low. is to develop production iii this, as in other fields, to the limit and to w "k for a scheme iti ilYC future tinder which British goods can enter Catiada on easy terms, so that the balance of trade may be evenly maintained. Certainly few Canadians would agree today with any policy in respect to bacon or anything else which at- tempted to ptit llritaliii, in her [ircseiit condition in the position of having to guarantee blind con- tracts for the future ‘or clscI" ,

Onlinb-us Outlook in Quebec

Tho fifth tlllll clo-iug session of the (iodbultt (ioverlitilcnt \\ill open on jailittary 18th next, a Tuesday. Immediately afterwards. general elec- tions will take place. At present, writes P.T.B. there are scven vaiicaiicics in the Legislature; the brctlltdoivii. of parties being as follows: Lib- erals, til; biiion Ntltionztlc. 1,"; Bloc Popu- lairc, l. This last-lilciitioticd is at outs with his party —- Rene Cihaloult, member for Lot- biuicre.

This se-sioii will be one of the tuost import- ant in the political history of Quebec. 'l'heitwo- fold reason: the g4.)\'L‘l‘l1lllClll. plans to bring down several lucastlres of undoubted import- ance such as that foreshadoiyiiig the nationaliza- tion of the .\lttllll'CZll Light, llcat and Power. and secondly, the election caiiipziigtt- to follow will be a pzirtictilzirly stormy one. For tlic last month. .\lr, lioilbotil has addressed meeting af- ter tiiccting: it is evidciit that the Prime Nlinistcr intends iii imrsoii to defend his adtniiiistrationi to visit czich riding. Rloreover. the Liberal [izlrty is presently uiiilcrgoitig rciirgzlliizzttiou. it has llUW to face a considerable opposition, which, tlividctl though it may be. nevertheless is quite fOFlllitlilltlt‘.

.\< for l'ni-|ii Xxltiiuizlle ClllCfllilH .\lzturice Dll]llk‘\~l~, ho is culling his followers, to arms, working behind the scenes to remove the dan- gcr iii Jl fight between his candidates and those of the liloc lhiptilaire. Lip to lioiv. .\lr. blaximc ]\'a_\'iiioi\.<l, .\l.l’. for Ilctltiltxiriiois. has not clari- fied thc stand h: will tzikc. llc is on record as having . lied that his party must he both pro- vincial 21nd federal, but it is being asked in well-iiif<i_i-iii<~d political circles if the departure of .\lr. l‘:itil tiiitiiii. Dr. Philippe llaniel and of Rciit- Chril-tlzlt is not going’ to iiisikt: a rap- prochiiit-iit lit yi-cn the llloc ztiid the Union .\'a- tiontilc r-r.

.\leiitinii may lhizillv be iiiadc that the ap- pv:li'zuic.- (ll lw-iti-t parties iii Quebec adds some queer (‘t/Zllltllfillltllls‘ i» the political chcssboartl. llitlicrto, the Libcrzil party could Ctllllll nu the sciiuoi". ‘If 1l1c ll'I\llL'-lllllUll\'. leftist iulcllecttulls and radical lllll\t‘lll"lll.\', llut thc very fact that ffffl". l‘lllllllll.'ll\'\ and some lnibnr-l‘rogrcssivcs

will Qt} to lb.» l\l‘.\llll'_'~ llll',‘_lll very well prc- ripilutc- ti sizil-t it: ~Il‘l‘llQlll tinflvriutlblc to the. lliillbiilil litl\t'llllllt‘lll.

.\'ii :ls--~-ii\-it ' to just how tlic parties ltztnd urli --:.’ r vzlii he uiadc before the end of lllt‘ >. ' It is sure. for example, that the liliic has lilitllsfllllls of follmvcrs. lt rcuttlills to bi- ~.-.n if tlic-c l<tllI>\\'t‘l'~ are ready to givc their wippoit ti. lh.» lhioii Nzltiuiittlc. provided that .\lr. l\'.'iv\'lll'tllll has declared llllll3(‘lf in

favor of an lilltlL‘l'>.l‘tlllllllQ witll .\lr. Duplcssis, or if thry would rnthcr full-m- the llaiiicl-(lottiti- (lih,'lltillllifll‘tlllli. It may be recalled that at the 1nd plci-tiiiii, .\lt-~-rs_ llanit-l and Chalotilt cam- paigned on bchulf of lllt‘ Libcrttl party \Vl1Zl! tlicv will do in the ncxt c.'uiip:iigii is still to be set-ii. lt is quite prolulble that .\lr. Relic Chal- oult w-ll have souit-thiug lll srly zibottt this in tlu- CIHIFB!‘ of the session hcginiiiiig January 18th.

'l‘he.~t: lll\‘l>l4|ll\ It\ wcll as the lltliiicl-Lacroix (lulu c! have evidently" proved tiresome to .\lr. Maximo hrrvuioittl. lii tin tifficial statement sent to the umvsplipcrs hc hits just itiade an ap- pcal for conciliation, asked that all should close their ranks. rluiuiii faithful to him. .\lr. Ray- uzonrl is in a (leliczltc position. Pulling one way is .\lr. litlttllllftl l.acroi.\‘, .\T.P.. for lleauce. Bloc party org:uiiz<-i" and keeper of the purse; pull- ill" lllt‘ tilhct" is .\lr. hcuo (Ihziltsttlt, only Bloc ll‘t'll|l)('l‘ with zi seat in lhc Quebec Parliament, ninl llr. Philippe llainel, freely considered by lllf‘ people as the moral guarantor and consci- iitct- of llll‘ Xtlliiliirilistit‘ lll1t\'(‘lll(‘lll.

'l'h:tt .\lr_ .\l:t.\itiii: l\'.'ly*i|i<iuil docs not vet know how lll‘ is going to play his cards is most probable. But no iitatler what his decision may

bfi. he is counting on the full support of all his followers. And it it precisely for the reason that theHamel-Lacroix clash has already caus- ed divisions within the Bloc, that he has just made the following appeal to all his associates: “I ha" §l°°d 35f“. and am continuing to do so, from personal quarrels which have taken place 01' which may take place between Bloc mem- bers. ..I cannot agree to the public being led t0 believe that I am dishonest enough to have. ls my collaborators those who are out to sabotage movements, or that it should believe that I am so ill-advised to consort with the trai- tors thereof . . . Let those who have cast doubts in public on my wisdom, if not on my sin- cerity, return in all dignity to the ranks, if they do not wish to be considered as enemies of the Bloc. A_a for ourselves, we do not regard this as a suitable time to be dissipating otir energies, profitable only for our enemies. For my payt, 1 appeal to all sincere patriots who place the realization of our program above every other consideration, to continue with renewed spirit the forward march."

All the rtfivspapers and observers have been unanimous in interpreting this statement as an official reprimand for the stand taken by Dr. Philippe Hamel, this means that in the event of a definite and open break between the two groups, Itfr. Maxim: Raymond would entrust his political destiny into the hands of the La- croix faction.

.- EDITORIAL NOTES .-.

We d0n’t want to see the snow disappear before Christmas, but something should be done with regard to the condition of the sidewalks and crossings.

U I Attention is called to the masterly address in today's issue by the Hon. john Bracken, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party; an ad- dress which the government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation refused to broadcast, but which ivill be read with greater interest by the general public for that reason.

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This date, i941, Mr. Churchill, Prime .\Iin- ister announced in the House of Commons that H.M.S. Prince of Wales and Repulse had been sunk in operations with the Japanese off Mal- aya; the losses were caused by torpedoes from aircraft, and later news showed that the war- ships were without air suppomAdmiral Sir Tom Philips, commander-in-chief, was lost, about 13o

officers and 2.200 ratings were saved. Ameri- can bouibers attacked and damaged Japanese transports off Luzon.

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"There will be plenty of candy for the kiddies this Christmas," was tlic good news given Mar- keting this week by the sales cxcctitivc of one of the largo food product houses who has just concluded ati extensive tolir of Ontario on be- half of his firm, “Knowing that candy manu- facturers were making shipments of consider- able (piaiitities of confectionery, bltt not seeing any of this merchandise on sale ailywhcrc, I made inquiries as to its disposal," said the exc- ctttive. “Almost invariably, from one end of the province to the other, l was told that bulk lilies of candy were being held hack" by the wholesalers so that there would hi: an ample stipply for the kiddies when Santa Claus time same around. There is going to be plenty of chocolate, toffee and suckers for all—at least for a few tlzlysl"

i The izigctiuily of Szuitzt Claus has becu sadly taxed this. year, says-Printed Word. He has done his best to turn otit tanks atid guns made of wood and cardboard, but there are no clock- work nicchaiiisiiis. Wooden trains lack the mob- ility of thc stream-lined electrics of a fcw Christmases ago. Even dolls this year are so economically COlISITLIClCd as to force the coli- clusion that many of Santa's elves and gnomes have been cattght by a compulsory transfer or- der. It's rather tottgh on parents, whose ima- ginations are no lotigcr crpial to creating a land of make-believe without the elaborate props of pro-war Christmases. One can hardly spend an afternoon demonstrating to little johnny the proper method of running a ivoodcn tractor". lint Santa Claus has given tlic parents one break. This year the after-dinner iiap will not lie inter- rupted by the notes of a tin trumpet.

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“Sccist thou a itiaii (liligcnt iii business? he shall stand bcforc kings: he shall not stand bi:- forc mean iiieu.” lt isn't often you ‘can hitch- hikc iii Queen .\lary's limousine, btit that’s what happened to zg-yczlr-uld Canadian PO. V. t\lc- Crcight, who is serving with the R.C..'\.l“. in llritaiii. lle told iii a lettcr to his parents that lie missed tlic bus from his air station, and hailed an approaching car .-\ massive limousine pulled in a stop beside him, and he piled into the front seat. Then the nian beside him said: "This is Queen Mary's car. ller h/lajesty is in tlic haclz.” “l nearly froze___iii my scat," PO. .\lcCrcight related. but there was more to conic. The limousine drew up beside a large crowd waiting to receive the Qheen mother, and PO. .\lcCreight was called to the hack of the car for a few u-ords with hcr. She gave him a small niedallitiii for a keepsake, which lie has sent for safe-keeping to his mother in \Vinnipeg. n- it n- n.

'l"hcy've got a Labour Government in Alls- tralia which last ycar uiade it a penal offence to use S:i\.i Claus in advertising. This year they evidently forgot about their own embargo, and started a Government Bond selling campaign by advocating the giving of bonds and war saving certificates and stamps as Christmas gifts. Then there was general hilarity fbrotigliotlt the Do- minion, and the bonds, certificates atid stamps were hurriedly withdraivii. The Sydney blorn- lug lleraltl said they were recalled “because they contained a portrait of Santa Claus as ati 0p- poiicnt of thrift and the war effort." The Sydney Sun said “the liurricd ivitlidraival of the ailvcrtiscinciits is the final toticli of absurdity in tlic Father Christmas embargo. Instead of making the tiine-lioiioreil Saint work for us (as in llritain :uid iii (Xuiuilzll he is being frantical- ly pushed licliitld the bars of a concentration (flttlpd ' '

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A Chlcuo paper alum; ti!“ Rflltkélellel‘ was the may“; 1m. imcler the world ever saw. But, how about. Noah. Who floated swck when. the whole world w“ m liquidation? —8t. Tum;- Joumn-l.

Ilium bvlnu m: [Qt ma; mi- a while wltnoui. Jams and Jellies, but nearly every on, t; someflmgg in need cf hilnan encouragement, a bundclssp, cr as coat-less n glft as u friendly smile The world turns on its better relations, not upon its ill-natured ones -Vtctorla Colonist.

In view of the fuel shortage there may be something in the idea that tho Wartime Price; and Trude Board should reinstate the prac- tloe o! "an extra pair of trousers." Of course, one patr would have to be s little larger than the other.- Woodstock Sentinel Review.

It ll situated that lboui 1,100 Danes were deported by the Ger- mans The Danish Jews, 1t is now lcuown. are Ln Marla. Thai-eaten Stadt 1n Czecho Slovakia They ‘we allowed tomwrite flvc hund-

poe card: Copenhagen, asking mainly for clothes, a 11m- ited amount of which was sent to them- A representative of the Dan- ish Red. Cross and u mun frmn the Danish Foreign Office were ll- lowed to visit them. The 143 de- ported Danish communist: are u: the concentration camp o! Stut- thof near Danztg. —Eirchuise There ere now nearly eleven thousand t Danish , o mlploymqit. Danish allowed to practice among them. A Danish school staffed by Dan- ish teachers has been opened tn Lund- German watchfulness has greatly lncreased. Speed boat; armed virlth cannon now patrol the sound south of Elsinore, but re- fugees oontlnue to arrive in Swed- en, some ln canoes, some 1n small boats, many in pltlable condition -—Montreal Stars.

Joseph E Widener, the capital- Lst-sportsman, who died recently, 1s reputed to have built the Ritz- Carlton Hotel in Philadelphla so his wife could have a, place to smoke, notes The Toronto Tele- gram- The story given general credence ls that; his late wife a noted beauty tn her youth, was smoking a elgaret. in the lounge of the swank Bellevue-Stratford. That was ln 1912, when smoking by women was frowned upon, and t-he mangement requested Mrs. Widener to but out her clgaret. “Very well,” she ls reported to have replied, "we will build a hotel where I can snake.” -Exchange.

Silly as it may sound, there are officers with the Canadians tn It- aly who are performing serious and important work though they are known among the troops as "foos." Every unit, in tclllng about; one operation cr another, invari- ably mentions its "foos" or a "fco" who has performed a vital job effectively despite hazards “Foo" is short. for Forward Ob- servatlon Officer, a man who op- erates well forward, often exposed to enemy fire and from cbserva- i101} Posts reports results of artillery fire back to the guns- - Montreal Star.

We are tnntinuing our campaign to trike the mystery out of the word “subsidy " Subsidy i5 an old American custom- ,The miraculous growth, before the turn of the century, of our railroad system was made possible only by lush subsldies of public lands and mon. les made by congress. The same goes for the Merchant Marine and aviation (vla air mail subsidies). As for agricultural subsidies, they date back to Coolidgds tlme- The tdea of the exporrdebenture nlan of the Republican Party finally was incorporated iii the New Deal AAA. How do subsidies work out today? There are twenty-five food Subsidies tn operation ncw, but the public knows all too little about them. _New York Post-

Rlverslde Council is properly turning a deaf ear to crltlclsms of its action ln selling a munlctpally owned lot to a Chinese citizen who ls building a homn thereon. Canada should have no room for this sort of racial intolerance, One finds ll. difficult, in fact, i0 tinderstand the mental processes of ‘those who are protesting, It would be a stranger condltlon tri- deed lf we were to lpmose re- strictions on the Chinese during a var which ls belnz fought. largely to destroy the hateful theory of racial superlorlty- Above all this. llie Chinese are our allies. They have gained the honor and admira- tlon of the whole world for their years of gallant fitzhtlng against, an oppressor Certainly there can be no lustlflcatlon for the vlew that, they Me not Rood enough to llve slde b_v slzla with Canadians. Windsor Star

I have heard several complaints lately about, shortage of brown boot and shoe polish compared wlth black. The Board of Trade tell me that. they cannot dictate to manufacturers the relative pro- portions of the two which they should supply The board also stabs that comparatively few brown boots or shoes are now being made. 'I'r.ls may explain whv the polish mnntifacturers are turning over more to black. Another explanation of the brown shortage in the shops is that the army makes biz demands on that color. Dlmlnutlon In the sunrilles of fats and wax obliges polish manufac- turers to be cautious. _Leedr Yorkshire Post.

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Slr,- I wonder how many of your render; heard ovcr the radlfi the other night, the shockln! m“ almost, unbelievable statement. based alas, on statistics. 01 M!

Fischer of the Canadian ‘Filber- gulggls League? 1r; 331d that, while the comparatively small number oi 34.000 Canadians had been K1116

in the war so far. four tim¢S thfll number (136,000) had already died

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Here 0n P.E.I.. there has been‘ a shgfp use in the death toll from Tuberculosis, as elsewhere in Can- l ada. War is the Great Allle of this l Scourge! And 1n a. small iii-grown I place like the Island. this means; not, statistics but. the death 811d; ruined happiness and threat to the, happiness of neighbours, friends 1 in a meat. many cases. relatives! Yet. it is well for us . to fight. this drelul, powerful B5 the Axis. ability we do not. need to glve the blood of our young; dollars and cents are the far easier means! Christmas Seals are the weapvfli m help undermine and destroy Tuberculosis the enemy more deng- erous to the lives and happiness of Cahudlbm. than Jar and Nazi combined!

Christmas Seals — that can de so much for so little!

I . Sh‘. i . BUHAM-All SCaIInIflNI-‘EIIII: FRANK THE COAL SITUATION

Sir,-—It. is gratlfyin , to reB-d your Lssue of today. remler Jones speech at. Ottawa yesterday. It ts a1. so zratlf lng to know that Premier Jones dt not pull tits punches when he started after the present Gov- ernment. Now Premier Jones ls not a. Progreslve Conservative or a C. or‘. but, the leader of the . rent Liberal Party tn Pro w, elected by a. majority a short time ago, when lt was necessary to have a new Premier. And waen he con- demns the-Belectlve E-ervlce here, and recommends that hey get out. or be taken out. of the Province, lt means that. they must be d0ing an injury to the Province. Before they depart he might also throw upon the pile the Coal Administration appointed here not. long ago, as matters as far as coal goes in the western pert of the Province are much worse than they were pre-

ously.

Who asked for the uppolntlng of those officials utywuy? It is cost- o! this Province dc of dollars, this money ls be wilted. and to quote Premier Jones ill "doing an injury to this Province.

We have been connected with a small wholesale wul business for some years back and have never had much troll

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to-day One came tn from Al rtnn this mornlzig. I quote — “I have been without coal for the past ten days, this ls too long to be watt when my OIBWMGTS have no fue of My kind. and re freez- ing. Try and act us u coup e of cars at once lf possible."

This ls the principal coal dealer at Albei-ton and test shrine booked several cars, ell of which shoulc- have arrived before the New Year.

Another customer writes us from Bloomfield u iolloiwa-"I wrote MacMlllan qutn this AM. and nsk. ed him to try end do something at once for the people who are freez- ing. An old woman and her daugh- thls AM. begglntz for a little coal to kee them warm. but we could not. ave them any as we had none for ourselves. They had no mun power to get wood them us they are living atone. They said it was a cold morning tn set iin and then have nothing o make a fire with. And they are not the