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7 $.\'l‘"L7'RD.-\\', ii TIMBER 19. 194s

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,\¢.ni.lir.;_; 1n iiic Montreal blur, .\lr. Brackeirs firs, m). n. itppiisition leader in the Federal Ila“..- "itdi be to convince Parliament and the cuniitrv ilWll he is anxious to co-operate whole- liciirtvfllv for ilic most effective prosecution of Illl‘ \\.'.'II‘ f1» Illlill victory." Mr. Bracken, the >i.'ir \\'il\\'II\'>, lin. "cousistciidly preached and jiracticcd’ ibis doctrine in Manitoba, but it is afraid he will have a “big task" in bringing h” Conservative supporters into line.

'l he Futi- uvcd not worry over-much about that. Tiit- L~ii-i-i-~.;iii\-c Lipptisition inembers at Ot- fawn lldvt: IHJCI‘ needed to be reminded, least oi all by a Mackenzie King apologist, of the im- portance of prosecuting the war. Indeed, to quote .1 Cliurciiil‘. phrase, ilie boot is on the other foot. It \\';is Hit‘ hi‘ .\lr_ King's own cabinet ministers . _..;,. l,i'l P -\\Iltl complained from his scat iii tlie lltiusc that "every step tllalt has been taken up to the present in the prosecution of the ivar has been taken as the result of the threat of s million or amendment being moved by the Op- position."

Thu-e tlziniiiing \\'III'II§ appear iii the official Iluiisurtl icpuit uf July :5, 194:, the speaker being tlie lion. l’_ J. Cardin, Premier Iiing’: fornier Minister of Public \V0rks. How any King Government organ cotild forget them to tlie extcni of lecturing .\lr. Bracken, of all people, on his duty to support the war effort simply passes understanding.

Gremlins In Government

Many sprightly stories have been written about the little pals of the R-A-F- and R-C-A-F- called gremlins. These playful little fellows cut up all sorts of didoes. Sometimes they tell a pilot lic is flying upside down when he rezlllyi isn't. Sometimes they tangle up the controls of his plane or deflect his machine-gun bullets from an enemy ship. Of course they are not always working against him. liriendly gremlins may help liim get back his bearings after he has been “blacked otit." They may turn away en- eniy Ack-Ack. Generally they are held res- ponsible for occurrence: which seem to run counter to the normal working of natural laws.

One wonders if the gremlln-TBREYCIICYS haven't missed a. fertile field, says the London Free Press. Aren't the mischievous little chaps busy in the government departments? How ‘m; an 50m; of thg strange ‘things happen that do actually occur? How is it that one depart- ment or board will bring out a. statement or an- nounce a policy designed to make another board or department look silly? Surely there must be gremlins hiding in the rolls of red tape.

Gremlins seem to busy in Germany cross- ing up the super-efficient propaganda system of Dr. Goebbels. Certainly the gremlins must have had a hand in the arrangements with Darlan, which have stirred up such a storm among the United Nations. Who but remlms would sug- gest to the United States ar Department that the completely discredited l-Iapsburgs were worth wooing? '

liven in Canada tlicre are evidences of grem- Iin work. The vast, sprawling activitiesof the Wartime Prices and Trade Board give their play- fulness fiill Stripe. Obviously they have taken charge of ilic ninnpoiver situation -—proba_bly IiECPIIhc no mic clsc was keen to do anything about jr_ rind some of the agricultural policies gppcnr pure grcuiliucse. Perhaps it would be a print] iiltu-i. lllf‘ lirec- Press suggests. for Qtiawa in flpjlilllll :i niiiiisici- for IIIC suppression of gfUllllllhj ;iii<l li’_\' to clcziii up llic situation. Pint prtilnilili- vvcn IIIS office would be alive will! tlie lung-tn-iicil little fellows before long.

A New And Vital Industry

Mziqiii wllllfl i. :i lIl(‘l1Il so wcak in its pure state Illil‘. ;i slllilli lHIY could bend a half-inch bar, yet st iiiiiygi n. Illl JIIIHY iluit ii will stand the shock (y; Lmiliri! ,r _;ii 14in‘ \\.'ii']il(lli(‘. If is S0 CIICCIIVC zi- . I‘.i' l! liiiw iiigit-ilii-ii: lIIJlL it will burn up I|i'lll\' a i. i-_.,,.;; t-rii. _\-t~t sit inert us a solid that‘ our ktuilil 5l"Ill_'.' ;i _;.;in>-tlt-grc~c blow torcli Illltli it iiiiiilil iiiit rziirii IIIK‘.

Tn tfii: i-Ii llll~l it l.\ :i metallic clement which. Ill ils nu: ~;:.I-i :i~ IIII IIXIIII: associated with: 1,1}. tr rIJii ii_~_ .i lllli~l zis (‘filllllllill as iroiif aiiil III ii. ziiiiiiiiizilli pure sizilc is just zilinizt: a~ rat".- :1» \li\'.".‘. |'ii"~t prniluccil iii France iii- 183i), m» ill n. Illilllitlllll I\ \‘IIIII‘(‘l'II(‘fI if is prob-I nliiv mi Mil ‘r lliziii lili‘ iililv~i iii:iii 2IlI\'(‘, Sn fair as Niirlli .\l|?(‘I'I.".'l I\ twiiici-riirtl. tlniudzi Iizis PIUII-I CUT-d f“ jjyrgfnv-llllll pruiluctiiiii. First coin- [nfffjgl] Hiiiprn Ill] tliis riiiiiiiiviit was frmii LTni-l ICfI Stairs r.'i\\ innit-rials l""‘\"(‘-*‘~‘P(I IJy $li:t\vini-; glut Eleriru .\II‘I.'II.\' Ciuiijiniiy from 191510 iqir) in SIYIIVIIIiQKIII FIIIIS, Quebec. First IIFOLIIICIIQII’ from Cznizulizui materials, and first use 0f the,

nuv. more rzipitl and sztfcr Pidgelm IiHiCQ-‘s. W115 .1‘ i! llniiiiiiiun Mtigncsitiiii plant, and already III: United States (jovcrniiicnt is np1>I,\'lI1f-!_!Il¢, vim: jiruct-ss for ivar production of nia#"“-"“f“ QiNIIII iif IIIL‘ Imrtlvr.

I‘niil ilit- 33.000000 project 0f Ilugiicsiuiii Company at Haley. 0"!" turnedl out its first crown of magnesium

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1942, Cam-la had millions of tons locked in brucitic limestone and dolomite bres m many parts of the country, but not one pound of pure magnesium that was not imported. The prob- I€m that baffled the scientists was how to re- move the oxygen from the oxide quickly and cheaply, without causing an explosion. Thanks to the foresight of General McNaughton, Can- adian Army Commander. then president of tlic National Research Council, a young McGiIl graduate, Dr. Lloyd M_ Pidgeon. tackled the problem in the Council's laboratories in I957. By November, i940, he had found a laboratory answer and within another year had proved the process commercially.

It is estimated that from 14 tons of dolomite and one ton of ferre-silicon, the plant will pro- duce One ton of magnesium ingots. Because the ore is inexhaustible, easy to mine, and cheap, the plant managers believe that after the war mag- nesium will be used in a thousand and one articles sold to tlie public. lu the meantime, every ounce of it is going into tough alloys for warplane parts, bombs and pyrotechnics. Some idea of its value in the latter connection may be gath- ered from the fact that it is noiv employed in jirutluciug a inillion-cantllepoiver parachute flare, a flare so brilliant that by its light one can read a. paper half a mile away-so brilliant that for two minutes or more it could light up every home in Charlottetown, or to cite an example more to the point, illuminate a Nazi target from thousands of feet in the air.

.- EDITORIAL NOTES-.

Tomorrow prc-Cliristmas Sunday_ i. u n- a n-

According to Lord Woolton, the lack of sugar is considered by the British Food Ministry to be “one of the great nutrition gains of the war." People make up the need for it by eating sounder foods.

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It is only natural that the Campbell Govem- merit should rejoice in the increase of liquor restrictions, but wliy, oh, why should the distillers and lileuders get away with a bounty of some 3o pcr cent on the water substitutes for the Real McCoy? Similarly, why should the gov- ernment garner revenue from water sold as alcohol.

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Prinic Minister King seems to gét away with anything, even to the extent of declaring black is white. Now who are the financial gainers by his new liquor policy? The distillers and brewers! Never was there paid so much for so little, never did water loom so large as a taxable commodity.

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Charles \Vesley, John's poetic brother, born this date, I708; wrote over 6,000 hymns, only half-a-dozcn of which survive t0 be sung in churches today, and several of tlicse altered to suit hymn-book editors. Even his Christmas hymn has been changed, the original reading:

Hark how all the welkin rings,

Glory to the King of kings!

Peace on eurtli, and mercy iuild,

God and sinners reconciled.

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INhcn Mr. Churchill and Field-Marshal Stunts visited Dover, several women rushed for- ward to shake hands with them. The police tried to intervene, but l\Ir.__Church_ill_ stayed the of- ficers by exclaiitiing: ‘No. don't stop tlieni. Their hands are worth shaking.’ He shook hands also with each of the R.C.l\l.P. Guard of Honour and asked them where they came from. One, Corporal Hooley, added—“My father fought in the South African war." “Eli," ejaculated the Field-Marshal, "then your father was my enemy and his son my friend. eh?"

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In developing our political and social inde- pendence in Canada we must ever be wary 0f the bureaucrats the minions of dictators. Once they get firmly ensconced it takes a revolution almost to be rid of them. Writing of the ex- perience of Russia, Mr. M. Philips Price, M. P., says there probably would have been no bloody revolution, only a gradual uprising Ind it not been for the tyrannical bureaucrats. “The com- mercial middle classes were weak," he says, "and provided no solid backing for the Tsar's Government. The aristocracy was decadent and the Court corrupt. The bureaucratic caste was aloof, tyrannical and not very competent, Since the abortive revolution of 1905 the Tsars had been forced to permit a Duma to sit. But the electoral system gave preponderance to the nob- ility and the bureaucracy. Still, the middle class had some Deputies, and had been for some years learning the art of public debate and criticism.” A Parliamentary regime seemed to be in embryo by i914 and no one can say what would have happened had not the war supervened, but lie implies tlie gradual development would have put the parliamentary iystfm ‘onliits feet.

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J for Johnny, out on patrol in the Atlantic, was overdue at base. It was an hour and a half overdue and nobody was happy about it. The aircraft belonged to a Polish squadron attached to Coastal Command. The squadron had raid- ed Germany on several occasions. They had lost aircraft over Germany but they hadn't lost any over tlie Atlantic, and didn't see why they should either. So they determined to search for J for Johnny. But just as preparations were almost complete J for Johnny's familiar roar filled tlie sky. Tension was broken and every- body was happy. An hour or So later tlie Enq- lisli orderly officer was making his rounds. He passed tlie point where J for Johnny was being nIICIIOFCII for the night. A Polish AC2 was busy nn IIIC jtih. As lie worked lie sanga snatch of :1 sting. Ilc was fussv and particular. Tlic plaiic was his pride. They had known eacli other a long time. “You must have been worficd when it was overdue," said the orderly officer. “l \VflI'I'y just a little, sir," said the busy AC2, “but all the time I say to myself: "It is not pos- sible that J for Johnny get Iostl He go over (lermany twenty-nine times, get holes in liim, bu! always get back safely. Over Germany we lost

' maybe A, B, and C, but J for Jolinny always

conic home to me. He great airplane. No! J for Johnny not get lost. I break my hearf."

I And after giving ii Inst tug at tlic guy ropes '.lic Dominionl Polish AC2 drew a large cloth from his pocket athering darkness climbed up and on August t5, began to polish the plastic glass of J for Johnny.

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IIOTES BY TIIE WAY

Italy's Minister of Edueatlon pro- tests that R. A. F. bombs have de- stroyed Italian art. building and stsauary, and (IBCLBIBS that some- one should tell British airmen that Italy's art treasures insptzecl Shake- speare, Milton, Tennyson, and Keats. Now. someone should tell the Miln- lster that. a country havlng art tren- aures to protect should have known better than to make the glorifica- tion of war Its highest ambition. — Windsor Star.

Pete Melrose, Stoker picked up the crlbbage "hand" that: had been dealt hlm. He Blanced at It and his eyes widened. A mo- ment later and he turned un an- other card from the pack and then let out a wild ye.l. He had a per- fect hand! In the deal he had re- ceived the five of hearts five of dia- monds, five of spades and the Jack of clubs. The card he turned up was the five of clubs. With the hand he made a ful 29 points. —The Crow's Nest tITuro, N. S.)

An Eastern Idea man suggests that Over 400 lives are lost In a Boston cabaret fire. Nearly 700 perish in

as these hontfy the world. but war

as these are small, Even prevent- able‘ disease exceeds them in its ravages. A single epidemic In a much smaller city than Bust/on may cost 400 lives. It lies wIthIn the danger from all three types ofi prevented, that will Indeed be the greatest triumph of all. —Toronto Star.

The "ancestor" o! those sclentlflc

Nations and AxLs Powers are using In great numbers In the resent war, was the Hindu war elep ant. The huge animal was used In slmliar capacity hundreds of years ago. Its force was used against infantry In exactly the same manner as the modern tank the -Iden being to crush down footmen and affoid soldiers housed upon Its biwk an op- portunlty to slay without being slain. The Tartars In the wars against. the tribes of India first met this astonishing fight, and their terror was much like that displayed by the German guamsmen when the tanks appeared at Cambrai. The ancient Tartar Emperor iKubla.

Khan wrote that his Infantry and cavalry took fright when these ele- phants, mounted by archers In beings, attacked. -Our Dumb Ani- ma .

Clty Clerk James Somers, of To- ronto, put on a campaign to Im- prove the votezs‘ fist. First. he scat- tied some 200 copies of the present Psi. throughout the cltv, 1n flre- hslls, schools, public libraries and police stations. where s voter could ascertain whether 0r not hi5 name was rightly placed. If piaced at. all. iAfter a couple of weeks he placed la clerk in each of twenty-three fire ihalls and kept them there eight days to record required changes. In addition he kept the cIIy hall open ‘till nine dclock each evening with l