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IATUIDAY. robin, rm Germany's Last Ditch

That the war is getting on Nazi nerves is evident from the attempt of some of Hitler’s officers to assassinate him, as well as from the shrieks of panic emanating from the leader himself. Without falling into the pitfall of wish- ful thinking. it is possible now to accept the signs of a mounting crisis in the affairs of Germany. These signs all point to something pretty near to national panic on the German home front. This is the time for the United Nations to redotible their efforts to smash the enemy on all fronts.

In a leading article in the July issue of The Legionary, an anonymous writer warns against the eve-of-victory ilangct" of “falling for" the old sentimental claptrap about the German peo- plc. \\'e may soon. as this writer anticipates, be hearing from the champions of the "No Revenge" policy-from people indignantly con- denining any mention. even. of the punishment of the Gtinzin people because a few misguided leaders like Hitler, tioering & C0. have led them astray. These people will point out that if Ger- many suffers any retribution for what she has done, it will create a spirit of revenge in the good Germans, and that will mean more wars in the future and will interfere with trade aild with pleasant holidays in Germany to see the Passion Play at Oberammergau and the opera at Munich and the beautiful picturesque Rhine- land. It will not occur to them that the vast majority of the "good Germans” in the early years of the war heartily approved of a policy of calculated, deliberate, bloody-handed murder, treachery and massacre planned and carried out with gleeful zest. It was our scntimentalists who won the peace after the last war. They were in s. majority then, but this time let us hope that sterner measures will prevail, that nothing that happens in Germany front now until its complete and unconditional surrender will be permitted to swerve our armies of retribution one iota from their course.

National Poker Came

With its customary flair for apt metaphor, the Wartime Information Board heads a news item in its clip-sheet "The Jack Pot Grows." The item reads:

“On the first of July, Unemployment Insur- ance in Canada will be three years old. At pres- ent the Fund, which has been accumulating since July I, i94i, and is made up of contribu-

tions by employees, employers and the Domin-

ion Government, has gone over the $200,000,- 000 mark.”

The metaphor is accurate in some respects, declares “The Printed Word." There is no guar- antee that those who have put up the chips will draw anything from the pot. Under certain con- ditions, some employees can dish in; but many other employees, all employers and the Domin- ion Government (in this connection, an official euphemism for all taxpayers) are simply shov- ing in their chips for the fun of the game.

The house rake-off is not mentioned in the news item, but it exists in the form of salaries Ind overhead expense involved in operating the Fm- . . . . What is not obvious at first glance is that the pot consists largely of I.O.U.'s_. Money riot needed for overhead and immediate claims is converted into bonds. Interest on these bonds and their eventual redemption will be the re- sponsibility of the Dominion Government -— in other words, the taxpayers. Some of them are

"beginning to wonder how they came to sit in

the game. The Philippine Sea

Amniral Nimitz has made the suggestion that that great and virtually empty space which lies between the Philippine Islands on the west and the Bonin Islands and Marianas on the east and between Japan on the north and the Carol- ines on the south be ‘called the Philippine Sea. The suggestion reminds an exchange of the naming of the Philippine Island themselves. This important group of islands enjoyed, or endured, several other names before they fin- ely settloddowu under the cognomsn Philip-

nes.

p‘ The islands were discovered in i521 by Magellan, a Portuguese navigator operating in the interests of Spain. Magellan called them the Archipelago of San Lazarus. The Spaniards, who looked on them as at the extreme west of their Empire, named them the Western Isl- ands. The Portuguese, who approached them from the other side of the world, called them the Eastern Islands. Finally, Spain, which took possession of them through a missionary ex- pedition despatched in I564. named thcm Isiai Filipinas, after King Philip II, the same royal gentleman whose beard was singed by Drake at Cadiz and whose Armada later met disaster in English waters.

The Old Party Game .

Rumors of a Toronto clique which is seek- ing to dominate Hon. John Bracken and mould the policies of the Progressive Conservative party remind the VIHIFOIITT‘? Province of s characteristic story about Sir John A. Mac- donald. An old fricnd had written Sir John stating that while his admiration for him was undimmcd, he did not like the policies of the Conservative party. "(Ionic into the party," Sir john wrote, “and Iielp create and decide its

Wes."

The policies of a party, of course, are al-

ways crested by the men inside it. There is no other way of creating them. So, to say that any man or group of men is seeking to mould the policies of a party-Progressive Conservative, Liberal, or C. C. F.—is merely to say that this man or group is doing his or its duty in a democracy.

As for this particular Toronto conspiracy, of which so much is being whispered in the, camps of the other parties, said he knows nothing about it. He knows ol no movement to dominate him or direct the party in any subversive way and would not permit such a movement to develop. If there were such a movement, obviously I\Ir. Bracken would know about it. Who are these people who profess to know so much more about the inside goings on of the Progressive Conservative party than Mr. Bracken himself knows?

It grows more and more obvious that these rumors are merely put of a political war of nerves. There is an election not far away and the various party strategists are trying their hand at party propaganda. It is time that this particular propaganda was spiked; and it seems- to have been spiked pretty effectively by forc- ing it outinto the open.

EDITORIAL NUI I23 .- Hitler narrowly escaped this time.

"licking the dust" U i i

Thirty women, specially selected for their mathematical ability, were responsible for the whole of the work involved in calculating what war materials would be needed for the invas- IOH.

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Equipment in our airborne army ranges from tanks whose engines start running in the air so that they may g0 into operation as soon as the carrying glider touches down, to compressed porridge blocks.

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Tllfife if! 7.000 dogs serving with the Brit- ish Army today. It takes 60 day's to train eacl: one, and on completing the course each animal goes to a unit with his trainer, where the dut-

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ies comprise guarding aerodromes, depots, dumps, installations, power plants and secret enclosures. u a n- w

British Aid to Russia in two and a half

years from June I941 to the end of I943 in-

cluded: 6,778 aircraft; 5,031 tanks; 4,620 vehicles; 32,000 tons of aluminum; 37,000 tons of copper; SL423 tons of rubber, besides footl- stuffs, machine tools, guns, tin, jute and other war materials.

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Prefabricated houses will play s big part in the British Government's scheme for provid- ing temporary post-ivar homes. It is expected that when full production is attained, some three months after the jigs and tools are prepared, these houses will be manufactured at the ratc of nearly 2,500 pCf week,

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Canada's cheese exports to the United King- dom have been practically tripled since i935, Agriculture Minister Gardiner said in the Com- mons. In I935 the cheese exports totalled 52,- 000,000 pounds. In i942 the exports totalled between 140,000,000 and 150,000,000 pDlllldS. They were slightly lower last year, but “were up" again this year. The price 0f cheese had increased from II cents a about 25 cents at present, \lr. Gardiner said.

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The Allies crossed the Marne this date. I918; on July I5, Ludendorff began his final attempt to break through on a line extending from the Argonne to Chateau-Thierry; cast of Rheims, Goiiratid prevented the Army from making an effectual advance. but

pound in I935 to ed

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von Boehm succeeded in crossing the Marne above Chateau-Thierry and descended itito the villages of St. Agnan and La Chapclle; on July I8, Foch latinched a powerful counter-attack with such success that more than 2o villages were recovered; this dramatic stroke won the

Second Battle of the Marne. l? 1F Ill i

Mr. H. H. Hatfield, M.P., is the farmers‘ representative from the Maritiincs. Mr. Hat- field, busy looking after Maritime af- fairs in the House of Commons, asked whether the forthcoming government bill, establishing floor prices for farm products, would cover po- tatoes. Agriculture Minister Gardiner said there was the possibility of "anything" being in-

cluded in the bill as now drafted. It still has to be introduced in the House. Mr. Hatfield said earlier he had noted new potatoes were being sold at Halifax and Toronto at $l for a 75—pound bag, which was below the cost of production. Next Mr. Hatfield questioned the necessity of an annual grant of $18,000 to Livestock Rec- ords. He llld he understood the organization had a $500,000 surplus and thought the records should be kept by the department. iner said the organization did a good job and he understood it operated at cost and had no surplus. n- : n e

Since the United States entered fully into the war, London has been the gathering-point, to which have gone the thousands of Ameri- can citizens concerned in the many-branched

business of fighting. Indeed, there are probably nearly as many Americans in London as there are in some American cities. Now as the bombs crash, these Americans are shoulder to shoulder with the British in a fellowship altogether more ieril than anything that was possible in the days of the blitz. What this fellowship means is des- cribed by Geoffrey Parsons, an American who writes from London to the New York Herald Tribune. "The flying bomb has had a great effect on Anglo-American relations," he writes. ". . . Indeed, the common emotion of fear and courage that the flying bomb engenders is

Mr. Gard- .m5

perhaps thegreatest single contribution toward Anglo-American understanding that has occur-

red since the beginning of the war. Now for the first time American troops stationed in the London area are able to comprehend in a way they never could before what the people of

London went through during the blitzes of i940 and i941." '

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THE Cl-IARLOTTETQWN" cuizpim

Notes By The Way

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Home came through the war al- most undamlsed but when Berlin surrenders lt wlll have a different "017 to belL-Ottawn. Journal.

Herald

Kovln Patrick 0'Shoo of New York has been denied permission of the courts to change lt to l-Ienrl Marie Patrice Hubert de Plneo. The back o’ me hand to ye, Pat, for wantln’ to part with s good Irlsh Expo for a label llke think-Ottawa

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A British offlclnl used a corn- blnatlon of geography and mathe- matics to show how blg the lob still is. Ile compared the 500 square miles of territory won in France with th¢ 2,000,000 square miles stlll under control of the Nazis — New York Sun.

Notices are appearing In work- shops all over Norway to the effect that all holidays are prohibited this year. Those eontravenlng the order wlll be summoned before Ger- man military courts. Quisllngs press directorate forbids the newspapers to publish any material encourag- lng people to take hOIIdlIYB- —M°1‘-' treal Star.

Mlss Doris Dolnnd o! New Yllrk City reports that she overheard two young ladles knocking off n little economics, says W. D. in C0lll€l"5. Said one. “What's bankruptcy?" The other said. "It's something corporations do when they run out of money." Sold the first. "Doesn't it cost them a lot of money?’ And the second. allowed to do it until they've spent it." And the first. glrl said, "0li.”

Rather than have handsome shade trees butchered for the benefit of power and other lines, the Eltzln County Council Wants the utllltles ln question to move their poles off highway allowances. Better still would be the burying of these llnts. Shade trees along highways and elsewhere are a zrent national as- set and their insane butchering by power and other companies ls some- thing that should be fought Wllflf- ever possible. - Brockvllle Recorder and Times.

In one New York household. the word "mare” may not be mention- ed, because to do so would inevi- tably precipitate ti marital ruinous and reopen old wounds. The wife, a participant in a recent radio quiz program sailed rilong beautifully through a series of questlonlntz rc- qulrln her to fll! one-word blanks in wel -krio\vn quotations until she came to the last-and big-money poser, which was: “Shoot lt‘ you must this old gray - New York Herald-‘Prlbunc.

Long after this war ls over. man wlll marvel at the faith and courage which upheld the people of those European states which were over-

, Fariii Prolilsiiis In Canada

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(Royal Bank 0f Cumin News Letter)

(Continued from yesterday's Guardian)

Cultivation

The subject of cultivation ll one of real "llousness. Boll ls not mere dead matter, submissive to treatment or mistreatment with impunity. Chemically, lt contains elements which must. be present ln certain proportions for the sup- port: of vegetation, and fly t ls made up of matellal whlc supplies the principal plant food. These attributes are amenable, within limits, to modification by capital and labour. In a demons- tration at Rothamsted experimen- tal station ln England, one plot. has been used for wheat every year or a. century without fertilization, rind last year it yielded 28 bushels to the acre. Another plot at the some station, properly fertilized, raised 50 bushels to the acre. There does not seem to be any doubt that worn=out land, under scientific culture, can be re- claimed and made as fertile as ever, and the productivity of nat- llffllll’ good sol! increased. Some may ‘point to lack of capital as a handicap to adoption of methods, but the work of cultural schools shows that. there ls opportunity for improvement without large cash outlay, that much could be done to 1n- productlvlty by elimination of wasteful and nefflclent meth- ods and unsuitable seed varieties. With farming developing lnto an

"Sure. but they ain't 1,,

alnnced soil, ln devel- Olblnl} irons which wlll meet the "flying seasons 1n different parts of Canada, and in preparing and marketing his product. This coun- sel ls given freely by Agricultural Colleges and by the Dominion and Provincial Departments 0f Agri- culture. Acceptance of it, and practice ln ll. will enable farmers to cut production costs through increase in per acre yield, and give ii measure of insurance against loss from crop failure.

Nature ls slow to anger, and there is still. time to arrest the consequence of single cropping, neglect of fertilization, and other slns of omission and e.- misslom Mail must add lils judgment to the selectlvcness of nature, and to the capability of nature he must. add science, labo vestment. This as wcll as n deci wh intensive culture, a knowledge of when to stop, because there ls u law of diminishing returns. After a certain polnt is reached the uppllCflllOll of new labour and cap- ltul falls to cause a proportionate increase lit tlic yield. If the farmer puts on additional loads of fertil- izer or employs additional men, he may raise tile total harvest, but the return per unlt of capital and

run by the Nazis and held ln sub- jection for a 10m: and gruelling term of years. High on the llst will stand France; betxnvad at home. snlit fatally asunder, the llll- willing host. to a gross and htmd opprcssor. raped ln all that a sltlve and God-fearing people rs . and hold dear. Human imziglnci on dwarfs before realization of all lhrs’ reality must have been. and ls to- day. - Victoria Colonist.

The Wheelbarrow is venerable velllcle which has help- to set many a heavy load aver awkward places. but this war lias given_lt a tragic aspect. Since the bombing of Shanghai by the Ja- panese, several years prior to 1939-, on through ta Hitler's invasion of the Low Countries and France, inls lowly carrier has been the refugees‘ great friend in need. It. has borne tlielr all in ri pltiably few pcsses- ens. flldltlg them in their flight and their long-awaited return to the rubble or the blackened walls of what were once their homes. - Hamllton Spectator,

an old and

At its lust meeting the American Psychiatrc Association expiessecl its low opinion of the lle detector 1n a resolution which pointed out that the findings were wrong ln about thirty per cent of the cases Nllorted ‘by Med Inbnu tn I942, that the feeling of guilt is too com. Dlex to be tested by any single in- strutijient. and that the hardened

criminal is more linmune to the test than to the free interview and other modes of probing his mind, llys the New York Times. No cle- flnlte conclusions can invariably be drawn when the lle detector ls used. and even those that are valid are no more trustworthy than ordin- ary confessions. It ls a question ln the minds of the psychiatrists whe- ther lie-detector findings are ed- mlsslble as evidence in court, and this because the subjest does not submit himself voluntarily m a. est. -If there were a conscience- robot it would be reasonable to us. sume that there could be a dlagng. sis-robot. but there isn't. tor ma findings she those obtain

then on! h “d

y by competent psychia- ts and psychologists.

It h lllfPfl-filnl how frequently the manner ln which s. motorist sounds ls horn ls Indicative of til-s own character. A drive on any or the hlshways wlll reveal this to anyone with s keen ear and a power of ob. salvation. Them are many person; who manage to convey ths 1m. reeslon of their superiority over ill! mt 0f mankind by the manner 1n which they signal to pass, oi- warn s pedestrian. with them the s a! ls an assumption of right. Then there ls the arrogant driver, whose fierce, loud blast is a com- mind. Ind Whose ear-splitting rac- ket ls terrifying even to an eXpflfl- caged ‘dglvgri! The h orlst 9 fill Y manner of doing his best to lmltste the closing notes of a mm: band, While the tlmld, ult- fldent Individual "tots" iy and with a certain deference which i?>°££.3l“§"l“..." “"..*".".";.. T“ c o e car uently no criterion. W! the musical notes. expressive of lsbtness and cheer, wh ch are frequently attach- ed to the largest and most im- presslve appearing automobiles» On contrary, a battered vehicle, with little more appearance than a decedent ash receptacle may have ii particularly obnoxious noise. There is probably ii moral to tlils. but. like morals. lt s all the better for being submer ca‘ ln the matter,

labour will OE less. Every farm has its own inilximum of develop. mcnt. Illltl tile farmer who would be successful must use all the scientific aids of the colleges and expcriiiizrital stations, as well as 1115 U\'-'l1 lltlllvc ititelligencc, m rcnch that peak, The man on .1 farm producing 12 bushels of wheat per acre has not a chance if the economy is cd to a yield of 20 “Win11 bl-ill c tile price to be the same, SL2; per bushel, and the cost lo no the same, $14.54 pet" acre. then the farm ylelulng 20 bushels will give a net profit of $10.46 per acre; a ld-ousnel farm \'.'l!l give just about half, 35.46, willie the profit from B. lz-‘uushel farm will be only l6 cents an acre. It Llle ylcici “POPS to ll! bus- hels Lnere is u net loss of $2.04 an ccrr, and at. 8 bushels the loss ls ssh-l. ’.l‘ticse l!_‘_',lll'0S are purely arbitrary, fcr purposes of mathe- matical illustration, and do not 111v claim to any resemblance to ilic cost of raising field wheat. The same principles would apply tu anv otilcr crops.

Field Crops

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PUBLIC FORUM

THE JAPANESE BEETLE

Elm-No one, I iim sure, could read Dr. A. M. Bell's description of the dreadful ravages made upon everything that. rows upon the farms, by the apanese Beetle. without being greatly impressed with the terrible dim er that threatens the future o Prince Edward Island.

If the Japanese army and navy were to attack the Island. the re- sult of the invasion would at least be ltmlted 1n time and casualties. On the other hand, 1f the Japan- ese Beetle were to make an at- tack. It would only be u mutter of hours when they would be the conquerors, and our beautiful Isl- and would become little better than a desert. .

I am presuming that Dr. Bell's articles Ire not over-stated. Dr. Bell ls a mun not given to exag- geration. and, ln any case, he ls evidently basing his description of the habits of the beetle upon the literature prepared by the Washington Government research men. which has been going on for the last two or three years.