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President: Lint. Col. W. Oboow S. Hold! Vice-hollows: J. I- Blrootl» l‘. l. l. ‘Secretory: Uul. 00f. D. A. lhnifnnon. Ill-ll. ldltor uul Iuugiu Director: l. l Burnett-Fall. Associate Billion: Frank Waller no [Mut- Ill A. Burnett. RAJ-NAZI. 10o Active Service)

‘The Strougen Memory In Weaker flu the Weakest Ink.’

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Forest Conservation

One Government policy which received strong eonnnendation in the Legislature this session was that of reforestation. 'l'here is no dispute over the importance of this subject, and most of the provinces give it a high place in their post- war rehabilitation plans. It is interesting to note that Great Britain is also making provision for her future timber requirements, through a care- fully worked out plan of forest conservation a11d the putting of large areas under plantation. The program contemplates progressive development over the next fifty years. After the First Great War the need for honfe-grown timber \vas im- pressed on the authorities to such purpose that in many parts of England, Scotland a11d Wales great stretches of what had been regarded as useless land were prepared as tree nurseries and planted with seedlings, which today have become forests of pine, spruce and larch. Before I919. it is observed: “Britain knew nothing of the po- tentialitie; of her own soil for the production of timber. Today she knows that she can pro- duce soft wood in much greater volume of cubic foot per acre than can Prussia, Sweden or Finland." .~\ Forestry Commission was es- lablished, and a Research Branch set up, which is 110w known as the Forests Products Research Laboratory, titular the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

In connection with the exploitation of these areas for forest purposes, the British Govern- ment is nmlejng provision for the recreational needs of the- public. Youth hostels are allowed to use the growing forests for camping pnr- poses, but i_n return the young campers ltavc given useful service and contributed t0 the war effort by assisting in the ‘maintenance of the trees and in forest operations in general. “Bri- tain is a small country," it is pointed out, “and the ground available for timber growing is nec- essarily -restricted.” If such an ambitious scheme can be successfully launched and car- ried out in the “tight little isle," what might not be done in this vast Dominion, with its comparatively boundless potentialities, if only similar thought and effort were brought to bear on the problem?

Worth Noting

\\'hen Germany is definitely defeated, Cana- dians will do well to use the occasion not for an orgy of celebration, but for solemn rededica- tion to the cause of complete, final victory against the laps as wcll as Nazis, says the Filmnuinl Pas). \\'c may have gone a long way to winning the war, but the whole vast job of \t'inning the peace has yet to be done.

lrlere are some of the things, the Port sug- gests we may well ltecp in mind for \/'-E-Day:

1. 1.0L the people of Britain a‘ " liberated Europe do the celebrating and raging. \Ve on this continent have suffered little or nothing in comparison. If its anybody's turn to ease up in war maltitig, it certainly isn't ours.

2. So long as ltuman lives are being lost and jeodardizcd in killing enemies, let's not weaken our war effort or our national strength. Strict adherence to the letter and the spirit of war- time rationing and other controls is essential. Tltc end of the German war will, in time. 11n- donbtedly permit certain easing of these c011- trols. But while war lasts, there are fewer dan- gets in keeping controls a little too long rather than in ditching them too fast, and the chances of eventually getting rid of them swiftly and completely are better' than with premature fumbling. ‘

3. Inflation dangers immediately following war arc even grczitcr than during war, hence wlnvlclteztrtcrl C(l-lt])l‘l'.'lll0ll with national fiscal pullClCs is the only \\'l.\C course. 'l'he import- ance of sticcess for the forthcoming Victory Loan catnpaigti is just as great, in some respects greater, than ever.

Demand For Bacon

E l letter to the trade the Industrial and Development Cotmcil of Czmadiaz: f-fea: Pack- ers tlualt with tln: present agricultural 4111a: n in the Uoniinion. Front 19.10 tu 19.29 i1 p out exports of grain (principally wheat) 1n- crcascd front $120,000,000 to $476,000,000; whereas exports of animal products declined from 151,000,000 to $55,000,000.

Up until 1929, Canada's policy was based 0n the belief that world markets would con- tinue to take all the wheat she could produce, It fluctuating but profitable prices.

Then came the crisis of 1929 and the early thirties. With a shock, Canada awoke to the realization that world titarkets would not take her total surplus of WllCfli at any price. Wheat declined to 40c per bushel, and still the world would not buy. e

It was out of this experience that Can-

Ida learned the lcsson that her agricultural sur- plus must he offered to the world markets in

the form in which the world wants it most.

Expressed otherwise, Canada must produce those products in which she is best able to com-

pete with other agricultural exporters. What are those products? ln the main, the answer is: Wheat and Wiltshirc Bacon. These two products ‘Canada can produce as cheaply or more cheaply than any other exporting country.

In respect of oth-

vantage.

Cattle coat more to produce here than in South America or Australia, or New Zealand. Dairy products cost more to produce than in Denmark, or New Zealand, or Australia. But in respect of wheat and of bacon, cost of productioii in Canada is leu than i_n any competing country.

This is the fact which gives such significance to the Bacon Industry of the post-war period. The British market ‘is the world's great open market for bacon. Canada produces the type 0f bacon which Britain duties. For five years Canada has supplied Great Britain with prac- tically all her Wiltshirebacon. Can she continue in the post-war period?

On certain conditions, the answer is “yes". Canadian bacon must be u good as any other bacon. That means it must be as good as Dan- ish. Also, arrivals in England of Canadian. Ba- con musl: be regular and in sufficient volume. To maintain first place onthe British market, Canada must ship at least 500,000,000 lbs. per year. That is, 10,000,000 lbs. per week.

At the present moment, Canada is facing a crisis in respect of bacon exports. Production has declined drastically. On the other hand, domestic consumption has increased.

Failing controls, it became apparent that exports to Great‘ Britain in 1945 would be less than half what they were in 1944. Action had to be taken. On January 15, 1945 the Meat Board requisitioned all the "A" Hogs and nearly all

the “B” Hogs. This made more bacon avail- able‘ for export. Nevertheless, t-he situation is still critical.

In only one way can the Export Bacon busi- ness be safeguarded. That is by increased pro- duction. This job must be done by the farm- ers.

-EDITORIAL NOTES-

All Fool's Day was not generally observed this year. w n- w =1

There will be many false alarms regarding peace before its realization, the wish being father to the thought.

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Yesterday, 11ot being now a statutory holiday, was duly observed as such by Provincial Gov- ernment offices.

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Since 1939 the United Kingdom Red Cross library department has sent 3,665,511 books to service and civilian hospitals.

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Prime Minister King is like the man looking for work and hoping he will not find it. He is said to be looking for an early election, but hoping Premier Drew will forestall him.

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Always asking for more. The City of Que- bec has asked the Dominion Government that asbestos coming from 'l‘hetford Mines, Que, be sent overseas through the Port of Quebec instead of through Halifax.

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A new School of Dietetics to give students a comprehensive training in hospital catering is to be opened in Leeds, England, next Sep- tember. This is the latest 0f, a series of special- ist courses aimed to provide all United King- dom hospitals with trained experts in every branch of staff activity.» The course will com- bine theory with practice and will include cook- ery and kitchen management as well as bio- chemistry and physiology.

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Jean de Reszke, Polish operatic singer, died this date 1925; was born at Warsaw, making his debut as a baritone in 1874; later blossomed into a tenor and made his first appearance as sucl1 in 1879: he became one of the greatest dranlatic tenors in the history of the operatic stage, appearing in all the leading European capitals; later retired from the stage, becoming director of a school of singing in Paris, but devoting most of his time to breeding race horses, as an owner of which he was known to all lmbimees of the race tracks.

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Since the war commenced the manufacture of cheddar cheese in Canada increased from 125,500,000 polllltli in 1939, to 178,230,000 pounds last year. Of the latter amount Ont- ario alone produced 105,000,000 pounds. Most of this has gone to Britain during the war years, and there is hope that UNRRA will take quantities for some years to come. liventtially however, new markets will have to be found. Without the cheese industry to use the sur- plus milk, the whole dairy industry might again suffer from the over-production which plagued i: before the war. A higher quality tnilk, too, regardless of the use for which it is intended, essentiak

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It is worth noting that blr. (Jraydrm has re- ceived the backing of Le Droif, Ottawa, when he asked that Parliament grant more attention to our foreign policy: “Mr. Graydon asked it 1o be carefully noted that less than 26 whole days of the Parliamentary session during the last ten years had been devoted to discussion of this important point of public administration. He likewise stressed that during this ten year per- iod the permanent Committee of the House of Commons had not been summoned on a single occasion to debate our‘ foreign policy. He con- cluded by noting that we have never had in Can- ada a separate Department of Foreign Affairs, although it is very widely, recognized that the importance of thlrdepartment demands much more constant attention than colt in all fairness be asked of a very busy Prime Minister. Here are big truths. The Parliamentary Leader of the official Opposition has rendered the Can-

er farm products, Canada has no natural ad-

ternational scene."

adian people and the Parliament of his country at a valuable service, by drawing attention to this pbint at the moment when Canada is preparing to play a role, greater than before, on the in-

Notes By The Way

‘I'M hcnhr do Gilli, dumb out nicely 1n a crowd. But a shorter mm wouldn't need u high q dud- zeom-Ollllry Harold.

0|: 0111 friend. the Vlolou Ofe- els, pops up uxatn tn thin one: rug; make paper. which makes money, whlch makes loans, which make poverty, whlch make rags.- Peterborouzh ltxnmlnor.

Newly-wall In Vancouver my be granted a permit. to occupy one housekeeping room. but. no more. In this way two may be able to llve as cheep] u one-Toronto Globe and Mal . -

A nvgltor to Goo. Bloating: u, su eme common twl.“ book: glwoya with him. the Soldiers’ and Satlore‘ Prayer Book and Hitler's Generals. There ts something very confidence-Inspir-

the Ottawa. Clttzen.

Lei no ole [of the lmpmllon that. wblle we reduce our consump- tlon of pom tn order to assist n supplying Britain. the people of the United Kingdom are growing fat on the pork we send them-The Brtttsh bacon ration ls four ounces. a week.—Brockvtllo Recorder and Times.

In war also some thlngl may be honourably and usefully done as well as some others. There ts hon- our for the Vancouver man who has gone without lunch for four years tn order that he may sharp- en the needles used tn the service of the blood don0rs.—Var1couver Province.

Surely, thli ls a young man’; country. Al: the Kiwanis Club on Monday the guest dancer was Mr. Mlchael Sloan, a spry young lad of nearly B0 years o! age. And could be dance? And did he dance? There are few lads at 19 that could do 1t better or enjoy 1t more. — Ttmmlns Advance.

To Interest farm youth tn the improvement of agricultural prac- tices and rural social ‘ltfe 1s most desirable. 0n the other hand. there must be a strong resistance to offtclal pampering. The oung people must do the work hem- selves. Such a ollcy would develop leadership. ma ntaln interest, and generate a better communtty spirit. To be protected bv benevolent adults from the possllvltv of mak- tng mistakes ts no privilege. It ts certainly and Mall (Toronto).

Future dramatists 1n search of material are not ltkely to over- look this sttuatton tn the south- German city of Slgmarlngen since Petatn and his fellow-Vlchyltes took refuge there, says the Edmon- ton Journal. It ls sald to have be- come "a comtc opera town," with the marshal having been granted a form of “French sovereignty" by Berlin and with his associates con- stantly quarrellng over the auth- orlty they think they are exer- elslng. But all this ls merely a pre. llmlnary to a tragic finale, 1n which eunttwnl meet due and dtre punish- men .

A London girl of 17, told she had not; long to llve, was medical- ly advised that there was a chance of her llfe being prolonged a year 01' two l1 she went to ltve at East- bourne. She went to Eastbourne and two ears later marrted a cousin. e brtdegrooms doctor ndvlsed against the weddtng and sald the brldc would not live to celebrate its first. anniversary. But she outlived her husband bv 22 Years. and had 11 children. five of whom are alive. She was Mrs. Marla Page Brlstow, of Charles- ton road, Eastbourne. who has just dted. aged 00. —- London Dally Sketch.

The newest fad agitating the American. mind, 1t ls said, ts the collectton of wooden Indians, These weather-scarred Redskins that used to stand out 1n front of every to- bacco store, not only in the States, but 1n Canada, not so many years ago, are selling at $300 $5 each, and as one saleslady said. are caustng far more interest than ship- ment of girdles that really would gtrd. People, have been runntng from store to store 1n New York 1n a frantic search of these wooden Indians. but there ts one emporium on Fifth Ave. that has a, supply, and that will not last many weeks, tt 1s said-From the Huron Ex- posttor.

Euormoualy exhilarating l: the predtctton by Dr. George Gamow of George Washington Unlverslty that the world will last ftve bll- llon years more before the sun blows up and snuff; out all our descendants. the just along with the unjust. Tbls glves time for a mere $60 a year (not counting tn- terest) to retu-e the natlonnl debt. The sun's heat wtll tncrcase stead- lly. tn a few mtllton years no one wtll have to go South for the Wtn- ter, or mtne coal, or shovel tt tnto furnaces. Or struegle, like yester- day. to survtve the flckleness of Sprlng-Chtcago Sun.

It wasn't n broken wing that In- duced n certain robln to spend the Wtnter 1n Aurora; 1t was a broken wtndow. The robtn found hts way tnto a hothouse, which solved hts houstng, problem ns well as com- posed hts fuel worries Newton Ken- dall wrttes ln the Toronto Tele- gram. Then. perhaps he had 110t- ed those osters about needless travel. e greenhouse caretaker found the rcbln company on long Itnter evenings. The blrd took keen Interest tn radio broadcasts. ha sart- What the vtstwr ltked best, for some reason. was the hockey broadcasts. When these ended. he always came u_n with n scoldtng. twmt his favorite team was l; not known. Posslbl , for tribal reasons, lt was the Ch cargo Black Hawks).

The story of the way In which the Amerlcan forces captured the eat raltway brtdge across the htne was one of the most dra- mltlc of the war. The v ry nar-

of ttme between the errtvnl o the ftrst American force Ind the hour seheouled for the destruction of the br dge ave the whole thlnz a dramntrzc qua tty that no ftctlon wrtter would ever dare to attempt. a great pert the capture. Relate gtvtnz n11 the credit to luck.

brought the Amerleenn scene when th Amer-tun

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an thlngs wn ch put the In a position to cnpttaltze on brenlu Fortune merely dtvldend to the std:

0° sale of alcohol‘ be used to teach

Luk d bt teed ‘no no ou p gut

lust 0a welt to remember that 1t n; much more than luck treat e - a a p: tnhrirévehthere. the result of good plnnnlliatg {all ' out d t wll these Allied force the declared

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l .- Untverslt used to give k1 n15 first ye h tud ta. It: ll 800d fnatrucflfior alibllcatilpeak- or: and wrtters of let rs tn th

111g tn this infer-mutton, remarks gd t

1B!!! the ftzure was PLUS 006. In mo 1t had lncreased’to siésomtas Ind by 1943 ll: was 835,680,041.

In 1912 1n Nova Scotla 79,355 re- sident and 20.1118 temporary ltquor pen-nits were issued. In 19M the fl . ure was 271.591 reatdent and 124:.- 948 tempera!‘ rrntts.

In 1944 tn r tlsh Columbia 976.-

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tn Legislature, He told that moon- shtne traffic ln the Province was at a ten-year "peak". "We have never had so much trouble with moonshine 111 ten years as at the present time."

‘A LIMITED NUMBER OF POTATO SPRAY- ERS AVAILABLE" ORDER IMMEDIATELY.

243 tndlvtduat 1t uor ermtts were

issued-more thalii the” entire pop- lgemai Pig! - ' Fbhmcfl

"lfltivn- “m l“ "m" Hog Concentrate

A recent lssue of Macfsean‘; re- Sunglo Fox Feed .

Doris that wo. Webster; Ontarto C b. M l Chlflksstlrter u

Ltquor Control Board chatrmnn ( u l 91' 93) Chick Grow“, ‘ I5“ "l", II Ull- sptcgi "MOI; tgap ltlalf the adult o - Breanne“ . 1 -' .

ua on o - naro now reguary , ,

purchase llquor and the numbe 110x110 Laying Mu!‘ "'

1s some up steadily." Bonemeal Pig Star-m- , - , » t

2. A system of government sale 10 Grout Gown 5m“

does not stop bootlegylng: In Aprll Beef Tripe H08 61'1""? "

Sails, zfiiterntejn gars of government Hot” Meat Feed wig.‘ Mm War“ "WU

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evidence under oath before the Ag- C“? M.“ I l . ~ rtctiltural Committee of the Alber-

According to the Montreal Star of March 3. 1933, Premier Taschereau 1n addressing the Legislature the day before tn support of a blll to permit the Government to keen its llquor stores open until a later hour at night said “The bootleg- glnrpbuslness operates at all time: of the year 1n every section of the Provincetbecause lt 1s Impossible to

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“Specialist: u u. nt- ttng of gluon for the‘

not democratic. — Globe ‘l

_ notification of ocular do

ernment sale had b

ton 1n Quebec for more than twelve years.

3. There ts a close relation betwee 1 llnuor 11nd venereal disease: "During the Great War the IBrt- tlsh Government was so concerned 1t commissioned the Rev. I-lenrv Carter, 03.15.. head of the Soctnl Service Dept. of what was then the Weslyan Methodist Church to szo to France nnd make a survey. lie-told of a huge camp the Brtttsh Government had to set up at one of the French portsto accomodate thousands of men 1n- capacttated by venereal disease. He reported that about 80% of the men said that they/hadn't meant. to get- lnto such difficulty but that they “had a couple of drinks."

Dr. Haven Emerson of the Col- lege of Physlclatis and Surgeons, Columbia Untverslty, last summer said, “How can we reconctle our tn- creasing program of sex education, personal hygiene, and avoidance of preventable disease with our 1m- plied or actual indifference to n1- cnhol which ts responsible for more syphtlts and gonorrhoea 1n the youth of both sexes, whose sober intentions are to avoid extra-marital sex ex- posure, than any other cause?"

I am, Sir, etc. LEWIS M. MURRAY.