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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER. l5, llll

Maple Leaf’: Criticism

An exceptional interest belongs to the criticism of the Government's demobilization policy which has appeared in an editorial on the front-page of the Amsterdam edition of The Maple Leaf, the Canadian Army newspaper. As the Montreal Gazette points out, this criticism comes not lrom members of the Opposition in the House of Commons but from the overseas soldiers themselves. Nor is it criticism that is vague or general. It is criticism based upon incidents which the paper specifies and which it claims to hove verified.

An extraordinary sequel to this incident is the announcement that the editor, hlajor Douglas Macfarlaue, has been removed from office by Gciierzil Simonds, commander of Can- adian forces in the Netherlands. The crux of the situation is thus given liy The Canadian Press: “General Sinionds asked Maj. Macfar- lane to publish an editorial giving the ‘other side of the picture“ and cease the differentia- tion bctwccn N. R, .\l. .-'\. and volunteer per- sonnel. .\l:ii. .\lilCfZll‘lZlllC said he would not authorize such an editorial ltlld added the mat- ter llll(lt‘l' discussion was llll injustice t0 which there were not two sides. Ile said he was willing to ])\ll)ll>ll General Sinionds’ statement on repatriation in the paper's news columns but General Siiiioiids \\":is not agreeable."

This plainly indicates that freedom of speech so far as The llaftle Leaf editor is con- cerned, is strictly confined to what his military superiors consider fitting. The opinion 0f ill.‘- military supt-riors may rcasivnztbly' be expected to coincide iii this intittcr with the views of the tjoveriinicnt in power. The farcial nature of such a setup is plainly obvious.

To revert, however. to .\lajor hfacfarlanos editorial:

The llu/tlr‘ Leaf 3..~l\'S why N. R. M. A. soldiers, who were sent overseas but who by V-E Day had never left the British Isles, are now being returned home with the First Div- ision. The paper asscrts that N. R. M. A. p61’- sonnel amounted to 31 per cent of a home- coming draft froni the Saskatoon Light In- fantry, the First Division's support battalion.

Upon this [aeculiar situation the editorial comments: “This sort of thing isn't funny."

The interest of the editorial, says the Gas- ette. is increased by the way in which it pro- ceeds to place its appeal squarely upon the very point which has occupied the central posi- tion, not in the criticism raised by the Opposi- tion. but in the defence offered by the Gov- ernment. For the Government has always up- held the superior quality of voluntary military service over all other forms. And it is now precisely from the volunteer’s viewpoint that the appeal of The Maple Leaf in made. Evident- ly some difficulty is being experienced in under- standing why the Government, having taken so favorable a view of the morale merits of volun- tary service, should be according an apparently preferential treatment to the men of the N. R- M. A.

The editor of The Maple Leaf has been fired for his criticism, but it is worth noting, according to a week-end statement by Maj-- General Vokes, Canadian commander in Ger- many, that efforts are now being made to.re- lease all Canadians with more than 90 points from the Canadian Army occupation force with the exception of men who cannot be spared. They are to be replaced by mfln with 5° P°ml5 or less, and it is “hoped this can be achieved by the time the Canadian force in the Nether- lands disbands." A soldier receives three points for each month of overseas service and two points for each month's service in Canada plus 2o per cent if married or 2o per cent if he is either a widower or divorced with dependent children. Of the approximate 22,000 mm in the C. A. O. F. there are 70o officer volunteers and 5.400 other ranks volunteers. About 5° per cent of the remainder are men called up under the National Resources MOlJilfZBllOH ACE with about 5o points or less.

South American Market

There is a particularly good opportunity now for promoting trade with the Isatin-Ameri- can countries, according to Mr. Arthur L. Neal in the Canadian Gtllf/TII/llllflll Journal. There was a great incrcase in our trade with Latin America during the war. Our exports rose from $17,000,000 in r938 to $32,725,000 in I944, but our imports from those countries jumped from $16,000,000 to $73.528.0°0- with the war over. Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and the rcst of Latin America will want great quan- tities of supplies which they were unable to get during the war. Canada could have sold them much more in the war years but for the tight supply situation hcrc and the lack of shipping space. l.atin-r\nicrican imports will now be above those of the pre-war years, and they have plenty of money to pay for them. Latin-Am- erican holdings of gold and exchange are esti- mated t0 have reached a total of $3.5 to $4 bil- lions.

Greater mutual interest and friendship be- tween Canada and those countries of the south have accompanied the marked increase 0f trade during the war. 'l'hc trade mission headed by Hon. I. A. MacKinnoii, Minister of Trade and

received, and three new trade treaties resulted.

No Alibi Left

Speaking in Toronto recently, Hon. C. D. Howe, Minister of Reconstruction, made this "llfwfdifllry statement: "Personally I am the last man entitled to claim surprise at the end- ing of the war, having known months in ad- vance of_ the approximate date of the use of "10 ll0m1<i b01715- While I felt reasonably sure that the atomic bomb would end the war, it is

00"“ I fail to produce munitions of war at the rate demanded by our own military authorities and by those of our allies. I could, however, gear out reconversion machinery to be ready whenever the war ended, and that was done."

Mr. Howe not only says that he knew of the approximate date of the use of the bomb, but that he was ready for the ending of the war. This being so, comments an exchange drily, there is all the more reason to expect better results than we have had up to the pres- ent. Complaints of slowness in reconversion, thanks to Mr. Howe, take on a new meaning.

And, incidentally, Mr. Howe must have unusual powers of clairvoyance, for no one knew how effective the atomic bomb would be until the experiment was made, 0n July 16, tit New Mexico.

-EDITORIAL NOTES-

Major-General Pearkes, V.C., scored a dir- ect hit in the House of Commons with his refer- cnce to the Government's manpower muddle as "Mr. King's bifocal army.”’ I M I I

Mrs. Felicia Dorothea Henians, English poetess, born this date I793 in Liverpool where at the age of fifteen, she published her first volume of poems entitled Domestic Affec- lions. lrler publications included: Records of Women, Hgunn for Childhood, National Songs, Songs for M uric," her best known lyrics are "The Better Land", "The Graves of a Household", "The Home: of England."

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Our old, generous friend, Mr. Harry Mc- Lean, who used to throw $100 bills about like cents at a shower, is at it again, after a consid- erablc interval. He endowed Merrickville Fair with $3,000 for sport prizes, and the inhabi- tants had the time of their lives. The population is only 800, but there was a crowd of 8,000 daily for the three days the Fail- laisted.

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There are two distinct types of Ontario and Quebec business men at present, optimists and pcssimists. The former predict at least six years of unparalelled prosperity and ftill employment, while the latter are lugubriously proclaiming disaster as the result of union labour policies and practices. Meanwhile every-body is busy as can be, with little thought of an after- math of trouble.

U D U I

Operating revenues of the Canadian Na- tion_al Railways system, all-inclusive, for the month of August amounted to $33,163,000 OP" crating expenses were $30,056,000 The I161 revenue was $8,112,000. In August, I944, rev- enues were $38,300,000; expenses. $32,417,000. and net revenue $5,883,000. For the first eight months of this year, operating revenues were $291,882,000; operating expenses $235.283.000 and neg revgnug $56,594,000. The comparative

expenses $234,752,000, and net revenue $55.- 608,000. u n a a

Members of all parties in the House of Common: have been in a dilemma over the attitude to be adopted on reintroduction of meat rationing. The particular interests of the far- mers, cattle buyers and butchers dictate an anti- rationing, or greatly modified policy; while, on the other hand, the claimant needs 0f Europe. and the patriotic feelings of the average Can- adian, demand that rationing be continued in force. Each of the three leading parties have held caucuses on the matter, with the result, the W. P. 8r T. B. have had their hands upheld; while the Retail Merchants Association, and butchers especially, have been left pretty much where they were before thzagiltatipn started.

The story of a Capetown man who. Wolfk" ing on his own, has brought comfort and relief to thousands of relatives 0f prisoners-of-ivar was told by Mr. Cyril Walling in a broadcast from London. He is Mr. E. H. Stephan, of Claremont, a railway official. Before the war, he was a keen radio “fan", and listened to the chief radio stations all over the world. After the South Africans were taken prisoner at Tobruk, he tuned in to the Vatican station and took down the names of men announced and any messages from or about them. From that time Mr. Stephan became more or less a prisoner himself. He decided lie would send on to the next-of-kin every message he picked up. At his own expense he had special cards printed. The messages were written on them and posted to the addresses given in the broad- casts. Then he began listening to enemy sta- tions . . . Berlin, Tokyo, Singapore, java, and Rome. He sent on their P.O.W. messages, no matter to what part of the world they related . . to Britain and the Dominions, America, India, Egypt, Mauritius, Malta; Thus, in ‘the four years from 1941, Mr. Stephan actually received and sent out more than 100,000 messages. At one time he was getting hack letters of thanks at the rate of sixty a day. His voluntary serv- icr. attracted the attention of the British and South African authorities and an officer was sent all the way from the Middle East to dis- cuss and investigate his work. Last year the Red Cross. as a mark 0f gratitude. built and sent Mr. Stephan a special apparatus to record

the messages

figure; for I944 are: revenues, $290,360,000; 1,15

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Slim mat-rundown. bitched grandfather for sneaking luto the hayloft with a yellow, blue and srwl wrapped copy of Deadwood Dick 0" D001‘. worrywarts have viewed U. S. reading habits with alarm. Last. week Common Sense maxazlne toted up some habits. Sold each month are: 9. “llulp" magazines devoted to atnd adventure stories. 7,967,000 “ rue con‘ " ma italics. 3 3- 000 detectlve story IITSQSIUIQSJIZO," 755.000 movle magazines. 26315000 adventure “couilc" b0okg,__ (Tim; Magazine). Three leeches, survivor: of batch brought back from the Mk!’ dle East by an R. A. M. c. doctor, were rushed from St. Bartholo- mew's Hospltal, London. 1n a spe- clul car and by special messeng ., b0 Brighton. 'I'hey were sent ln re- sponse to an appeal from the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, where a 12-year-old girl was ser. lously lll with heart disease. The leeches were used to druw of! blood because other means could not. be used. And the girl was re- ported to have “beneflted" from them-From London Express. mllffiifllllk to omen weary of war work and ready to set up u. home ls the headlined estlmate that Britain has a surplus of more than 3,000,000 women. On Septem- ber 29. 1939. the census showed 2,813,343 more women than men in the United Kingdom. The war has taken away nearly 300,000 men. The board 0f trade has a plan for more even dlstrlbutlon of ridustry and balancing of numbers of men and women in each district. Chims show women have tended to drift from coal mlnlng nnd~heavy ln- dustry areas and young men from textile producing and light indus- try dlstrlcts. The chances of mar- rl-Jge for a. glrl in ironwork areas are double that of her counterpart ln wool, textile or cotton districts. -Hamllton Spectator.

The limited supply of eryrhlware available from time to time lnsonie Australian retail stores owes its ap- pearance to the army's need for red rear-reflectors on vehicles. Or- lglnally the manufagture of all crystalware was banned with other luxury goods. Later it. was found that. a certain number o! crystal cutters had to remain on the job to produce reflectors which have :0 be diamond cut so that.‘ whenever the light hits them it ls reflected. What time the cutters have on their hands after army needs have been filled ls spent making useful articles such as salad bowls for the public. Even then the crystal can only be bought ln one state-New South Wales — because transport regulations forbid interstate ca:- rlage 01 non-essential articles.- Vancouver Province.

The London Flnanclll Times ro- ports that. a Turklsl-i commission wlll vlslt London shortly with £350.00!) 61.550500) to spend on

and shipping equipment and various classes of raw mater- . An enormous Turkish demand for British goods of all types la expected. Commenting on the sign- lng of the Anglo-‘Ifiirklah Trade and Payments Agreement lust May the Times’ Istanbul correspond- ent wrote: “The Turkish Govern- ment hopes that British capltul. industry and enterprise, wlll take an interest ln Tur ey's plans for reconstruction. It ls estimated that a sum of about $30,000,000 ($132,- 900,000) wlll be spent yearly ln ex- cess of the ordinary budget expend- iture, on extensive public works and electrical ulpment. "In order to carry out ese projects Turkey wlll need financial hel as well as machinery and techn cal advice. She hopes to flnd them preferably ln Britain."

It might be that talking up the arlme wave will give encourage- ment to its expansion. The fact is, however, that from Montreal to Windsor, and extending lnto no:- thern arts of the ‘province, thugs and c lnuls are owing an un- usual activity, ln which there la evidence of considerable foreplun- rilng. In the underworld they call l1; "easing the ob." It would be dlfflcult to fln stronger substan- tiation of this than the attempt to 11ft three safes at Lakeside Park, Port, Dallwusle. The whole layout had been carefully looked over, without doubt, and also carefully tlmed. The mistake the culprits made was in not hamstrlngln the 69-year-old watchman, osluh Peckhatn, sufficiently tight to en- able them to get away with cash estimated around $10,000. The watchman merits the highest praise for getting lilmself loose and olllng the lot. The Port. Dal- housle eplso e, however, l; a drop ln the bucket the floodhofzcrlnge reports zen y ti roug ou t e prgVlflO0.—sC. Catherine's Stand- ar .

A from Berlin newspaper, .190! Morgen reveals that the Null pro- paganda. machine advised news- papers during the war to keep handy on their odlborlal desks a list of 100 epithets and insult-l. By ta use, the editors could "write the most wonderful articles." It la a pity that. this catalogue of lu- vestlve was not cabled more fully. It would have made delightful reading for students of the language of insult and the Nnl mind. All the cable reports are examples like gangster, stoogd of world Jewry and enemy of mankind, whlch are about. as seat-lug u so rnimy creapi- igrfis.‘ Hltlmetfilmself had grea a n ep l u p a- ganda. In Meln Knm f lie fibre than once praised Brl 0pm;- gundu as compared with a tn the war of 1914-18. He admired immensely the use by the British

of the epithet "Buns." an applied to Germans. It was "psychologic- ally right," tn declared, bacilli I

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PAGE FOUR __..__- -- Resources, to South America in 194! was well

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Lack or ' Understanding

(Wllml n10 Pun) limo ‘Can soldier: obmnd who luv sufficient points for re- gll-YIIYJM but are being retain y the over-sou army u key par- aounel have lately been wound lu lettan from bome of not want- lnl to return to Canada for db- re utoble muons. very unfair but, unfortun- ately, human attitude on the pan o! soldiers’ famllles ulna from the fact that a wlfo sea soldier: bo- lug repatriated who have not u much service to t ll her hlllbllld, and not understanding the-system by wlilch the army ro- b l. mun overseas as a key man.

l; jumps to the oonclugtlon thug, lire;

own husband doe; n ugulwme. ‘pfactlca under which men P“ ’ as key - ‘ by the army zlves a so dler no optlo . He ls simply detailed to , ‘orm a certaln duty, on the grounds that he ls indispensable to that function and he has little l! any a1 oholce 1n the mattcr. I la not bl: fault 1f he 1a left bebln while men with less int! than he are being repatrla .

One soldier, wrltlxiz to The Maple Leaf, the Canadian Army news- paper overseas, has this to say:

‘I think 1t would be most con- siderate of The Maple Leaf and also other newspapers across Cun- ada to make lt. quite clear to all the people back home the real rea- son for hlflfinlflllll personnel like myself rema n3 111 this theatre. Nbne of the excuses I have so fax passed along to my wife have been very effectlve. So a few days ago one of the ‘Joes’ ere told us his wlfe has lnform him by letter that there was only one reason why troops were kept over here with over 150 polnts and that was because they were taking treat.- ment for VD. I am not the leiust blt, afraid that any mnnectlons of mine would be of that oplnlon but as the time wears on and the time gets tiresome it ls utte liable to make some impressionable people thlnlr and pass rumours. To tell the folks back home that you are es- sential doesn't carry much weight"

It l; difficult enough for u man who must because lie ls ordered to do so, remain behind while his comrades are repatriated. But to encounter luck of understanding of his ltlon from his family makes he position of a man so placed doubly difficult. His enfor- ced stay overseas could be consid- erably eased by a sympathetic, un- derstanding attitude on the part of his family,

FLOREAT NOVA SCOTIA

Hunger of sea for the shore. l-lurt o! an age-long feud Where the tools at hand When He saw thee stand Rock-slnewed.

Ang gave thee a world to guard Where it's Eastern portals blde Ajar tn the wan

shrill light. of the Dawn,

The Sun's leave of the tide.

So the Years took up their task And the Seasons gave their due. Wltli sun and raln

The migrant grain

Bower on butress grew.

Yet when the ivlnds are loosed And the Furies find release The Knurled rocks hold,

Ali they dld o! old

And the hinterland has Deuce.

Peace with plenty and And pride, but rarely a Of its bulwark grown To a. garden. blown with Beauty. sea-lnwrougbt.

—Andrew D. Merkel ln The Harpsichord.

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repared the soldiers and pieople of grltaln for terrors hlc could not, exceed the actual. ‘Ihus they were guarded against "disappoint- ment." This ma sound like Juve- nlllty ln the reu m u! thought and lt probably 1s. But. he was right lu one respect. He said the counter- pro Band; of Germany ln the eat-ici- war was "idiotic." the pro- duct. of "aesthetic languishing monkeys," "brainless so-callod statesmen" and "super-clever awlndlers." Whatever it was in the recent war, lt was Jung as ln effect- lve.—(Ott.aw|. Cltluon .

ATTENTION TRUSS WEARERS

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