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lilONDAY, APRIL 6, 1942.

Aircraft Production Lags

Canadians who desire to see a more realistic and aggressive war effort, says the Globe and Mail. must deplore the stubborn, resentful and evasive attitude of Cabinet Ministers \vlio con- strue constructive criticism as malicious and harmful instead oi recognizing it as sincere and helpful.

No one can have been more disappointed with the. first year's record of Federal Aircraft than Mr. Howe himself. The Minister of biunitions and Supply is an engineer who apprciates organizing ability. He is not justified in defending an or- ganization which retarded aircraft production in Canada for eight months after France had fallen and Britain was saved by the efforts of a few hundred airmen she was able to put in the skies to combat the Nazi blitzkrieg. Federal Aircraft slowed up the production of airplanes in Canada by its failure to organize the supply of compon- ent parts required by the manufacturing com- panics.

But what is the present position? Mr. Howe is reported as saying that “we are turning out in volume that exceeds our schedules by a very sub- stantial margin the most modern planes that are being used in the war. We are delivering regu- larly a good production of Hurricanes, which are ltill the the best fighter planes the war has pro- duced.” As member of Parliament for Port Ar- thur, Mr. Howe is familiar with conditions at the Head of the Lakes. He will know if the Can- adian Car and Foundry Company at Fort Wil- liam had to lay off nearly 2,000 aircraft workers last autumn because they did not have orders for Hurricanes. As Minister of Munitions and Supply he will be likely to know whether there were any gaps in the production schedule of the Fort \Villiam plant and whether men had to stop work by the hundred an account of lack of planning elsewhere.

The hlinister of Munitions and Supply is also reported as saying that “Federal Aircraft is turning out 15o planes a month. although it was organized to produce only I00." Mr. Howe is a busy man, preoccupied with many phases of war industry, and it is only fair to assume that he must depend for information upon subordinates. According to official documents, the production of the entire aircraft industry of Canada since its inception is only 304 Anson Il’s, the type of planes Mr. Howe appears to be talking about. Information from the same source shows that the peak month was January, I942, whenpg5 Anson

1's were produced. In February of this year the output fell to 6o, and f.or the first three weeks

of March 55 were turned out.

New Gift For Britain

Canada, as an exporting country. is now to provide yet another commodity for which there in an urgent need in Britain, which demand she will be honored to fulfil. The nature of the new export may surprise many, for it is in the form of a group of trained social workers. Fifteen of these professional women are to go to Britain. This group will be only a beginning of what is to be called the Canadian Children's Service, the ob- ject of which will be to relieve the pressure on British workers.

The help that this group will be called upon to give will be principally with children. The tremendous changes brought about by wholesale evacuation of large areas have over-stfained the British strpply of those trained in the care of children in all its aspects. The Canadian group will include some nursery school teachers, and a university department of child psychology which will help in the training of British volunteers. 'l‘his project is being worked out in conjunction with [he llriligh Alinistries of Health and Edu- cation by Dr, llincks, the Director of the Canad- is“. National Committee for Mfifllal Hygiene. and Dr. Jnffray and Dr. Blatz of the University of Toronto.

Wartime Economies

Some of the economics adapted by the City of Montreal, tinder its Director of Services, Mr. Honore Parent, K. C.:

i. No new atttoinobilcs except for emergency needs.

2. No replacement of old equipment as long as repairs can be inade-

3. No replacements of buildings.

4. No filling of vacancies in positions.

5. No work week of fewer than 38 hours for office employees. .

6, X0 Vilfllililllls river two weeks or lunch per- iods over one hour.

7. .\'o pfivillt‘ garage rent for motor vehicles. (Only exception is for some Fire Department of- ficers who iilii‘-l,l‘lr’l\’€ their curs near their homes

at all times).

8. No printing of dncirnurnis when mimeo- graphing ill" vithcr printers wrl do.

9. .\'o landscaping or tree pltmiing.

p. No decoration of buildings and streets.

noti-esscntial

11. No new liighivay construction or recon- struction and other public works. r2. No new street lighting installations. I3. No new traffic iontrol devices. r4_ No outlays for public celebrations (all ser-

vices to be donated )

— EDITORIAL NOTES _ i i i i

The Income Tax office will be open for busi- ness today as usual. n: u a a We may settle down to work until May 24, next public holiday to be observed. I t as a The Red Cross local organization, under the efficient and inspiring leadership of Mr. Robert L. Cotton is preparing for its great financial campaign next month. a r m in Mr. John A. Stiles, M. B. E, B. Se. M. E. I. S. Chief Executive Commissioner of the Boy Scout Movement will pay an official visit here May I- x a w Fear of a famine in China has been dispelled by timely rains reported to have fallen in Free China this week. Good crops are anticipated now in Szecli\van, Kwangsi, Fulcien and Chekiang provinces. r it r s Referring to the proposal of a reader of The Times that every man should wear a beard, the Rev. G. S. Robinson, of Liverpool, writes: “May a mere man suggest that all women should be compelled to submit to an Eton crop? TlIlS would not only save soap but other valuable war materials (as, for example, steel from hair-pins) and at least a million hours daily in dressing the hair." it In order to conserve milk fat the Dairy Pro- duct Board announce that Canadian manufac- turers of ice cream and sherbet will be restricted effective in April to a monthly output no great- er than production in the corresponding month of I941. The board ritlcd also that the quantity of ice cream mix or sherbet mix sold for do- mestic or export use in any one month after April I shall not be greater than the quantity sold in the corresponding month last year. Quantity of mill.- fat used in manufacture of icc ercrim or shcr- bet is similarly restricted. U I K There is always somebody taking the joy out of life—now it is faith in the “tote." A totalisa- tor manager at a Scottish race-track was charged with stealing some $7,000. This is what the judge had to say: “If there is one fact proved in this case, which no one can dispute, it is that the touching faith of a mechanical age that the totalisator cannot lie is somewhat misplaced. Whether by malciotis interference or accident. during April and May, 194i, over £1500 that should have been distributed to the public in

dividends was not so distributed.” w- r

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The munitions and stipply department at Ot- tawa has ruled that no special consideration will be given to a car owner who seeks additional gasoline because he wishes to drive between his summer cottage and his place of business. “TTliis regulation will apply whether or not the vehicle owner is employed by a war industr_v, or is in any other preferred category," said Oil Control- ler G. R. Cottrclle in the departmcittal state- ment. Under gasoline rationing which went into effect today non-essential driving is limited tn

about 5,000 miles a year. s s s w John Stow, chronicler, historian and anti- quary, died this date I605; began life a poor

London coclrney, was apprenticed to the tailoring trade when elcvcn years of age, became a master craftsman at twenty-one, continued in business till the age of forty; meanwhile he spent his spare time wandering all over the city visiting churches, print shops, and book shops; became interested in poetry, and in I561 published a re- vised edition of Chaucer's works; this was fol- lowed in I565 by his own “Sunnnary of Eng- lish Chronicles"; in I580 by “Annals of Eng- land." and finally in 1598 by his most popular tor manager at a Scottish race-track was charged I IF i 1i

Farmers in the province of Quebec are to be encouraged to go into rabbit breeding, this being considered by the Provincial Department of Agriculture as a lucrative field of operations due to the war. Tlic department has issued a pamphlet on the subject, written by Edmond Ivart, an ex- pert on the subject. Rabbit breeding is advisable from two points of view, first, because of the pelts, and secondly because of the meat, since, it is pointed out by the department rabbit meat is Comparable to chicken. There are three great markets open to Quebec breeders, it is pointed out. There is the Canadian market, where tlious- ands of dollars worth of pelts are used each year for fur, and the United States imports 200,000.- ooo pelts a year, and there is the British mar- ket, which each year lias been importing more than a quarter of a million pounds of rabbit meat. The prospects for Quebec breeders are ex- cellent, claims the department.

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“Every day some new controller or assistant controller or administrator is named for a special job," writes an Ottawa Correspondent. "It is no exaggeration now—it might have been six months ago—we‘ask how business and industry are carrying on back home, for it looks as if most of the heads of these private'firms are here helping to keep the nation's economy close- ly geared to the war effort. Some may say there are too many of them, and some wonder how all of them can be usefully employed: but if the heads of the many essential boards and com- missions and departments believe they are ne- cessary that should be sufficient. A casual visit to any one of the many boards will present a picture common to most if not all. They are all hives of industry. Mosot of the officials seem studious, preoccupied, exceedingly in earnest for they have serious jobs to do. Every day pro- duces new problems and these problems are na- tional in their extent and effect for even though the application or the claim or the inquiry is of an individual litisiness man its treatment oli- viously is of iiitcrst to amp affects all."

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NOTES BY TIIE WAY

PUBLIC FORUM

u a ea for Oil Many golfers are ‘ ’ to ‘w-“lw ' r r of take up aicnery this summer, ac- “stun. u interact. n. cording to sales Management. Chlrlottetv-In Guardian ante-ha: with me trifling exception of steel aoeaunriil 1:" All '9 for arrow points, no metal is rc- " """"" quued- and one rubber. Other

material for equipment ls not ef- fected by prloriues, with the pos- sible exception of Irish linen twine

for bowsiriiigs. Demand for archery equipment ls already up at least b0 per cent among stores

specializing in tennis, golf and ski outfits. - Marketing.

As some people may have re- frained from gwing up their priv- ate papers, old love letters and fanny documents as waste paper for fear of other people reading their secrets, a baling machine, operated by a. crew of leeal women, has been erected in the main shop- plng street at Surbiton. People with private papers may feed them to the machine and see them baled and wired with tons of ozher waste paper for time, repulping mills. Surblton i5 making a big effort to win a prize in t-he big £20,000 paper-saving competition. - Lon- don Evening News.

How is Germany able to carry on the war at a vast expenditure o! perhaps ten to twelve millions a day? It u not because she has the vast resources in gold, but because she exploits all tier natural re- sources with the help of science and chemistry, and expenditure in- curred today in wages and ma- terials returns tomorrow to be spent again. Is it not an ancmaly that, ins world in which purchas- ing power has been almost ntiolly destroyed, in which national as- sets are daily going up in flames, that the cost. index tn labour and materials ln the U.S.A., WlllCll holds about half the “hole world's hoard of monetary gold, should have risen to four times the level existing ten years ago? What then are the prospects of past-war rc- construciiori for distress. unem- ployment, penury, unless we return t0 fundamentals and hurl to the ground this golden image? — V, A. Malcoimson in Empire Pro- duced tbondozi),

Don't forget the Prussian Junk- ers sent Lenin through Germ-tiny in a. sealed train in 1917. They did that to make sure the Russian revolution did not. collapse. Lenin made peace with the Ger- mans and the Prussians were freed of the Eastern Front. ‘Hie same Prussian Junkers may tity to execute scme coup with the Russians in this war. ‘The Gziman generals have always worked on the theory that they should be al- lies of Russia, because the Rus- sians can harass Grnntmy from the East, when the Germans want to make war in the West. possible the JliHk€r5 will attempt. to appease Stalin in scmc way and so make a seperate p?8£€ in the East. The Russian leader knows his Geimans and he realizes that. the generals did not favor the at- tack on Russia. Tlial- was not b2- caitse of any love the generals have for the RllsSlillis but because the generals have always feared o. war on two fronts. Some of these thoughts may sound fantastic but this war has been punctuated with the fantastic from the very be- ginning" -— Windaoi" S.ar.

It may be added that McNaughton proved by far the finest publicist cl her W31‘ effort, that Canada has prcduced here since the war btgan. His frank- ness in fu.1y nnswerng all ques- tions but tiicse that. m (it inform the enemy made a pzwzrful im- pression on all tlsc meilcim cor- respondents. He talked with the readiness and wood fiunior equal to that oi‘ F ‘cont Rocscvrlt, h.m- self. cvtidi , no question but say- ing irankiyt i. iv liecoud not M15- wer: and su_ii replies were rare. His very obvious c::c.rfu.i1e.=.5. B-‘ld his repeated emphasis on a Euro- pean offensive, led mtst of the correspondents to bell-eve limi- whatever military l-ISILCS had been thrashed out 1n the irgh staff conference. General McNaughton

General

had carried (llS pout. Unques- tlonably, the impression left in American minds, as the writer

ascertained by inquiry. was that an offensive ‘in Europe is an ob- jective to whidi all iii: h gh staffs are bendin their miixs at the mo- unent. eglna Leader-Post.

According to an editorial which appears ln the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Jour- nal, one c! the few beneficial 8f- fects of the war on Canada has been an improvement of the nar- cotic situation. Crcdit for much of this improvement is given to the steady efforts of the Narcotics Di- vision aided by the Royal Can- adlan Mounted Police. The war, however, tins created a shortage of narcotics for illicit dealers and in many localities there ls a sample“? absence of outlaw distribution smoking opium l5 available at very high prices in certain areas but the illicit sources of morphine. heroin and cocaine have rac- tically dried up Th: Medical our- nal warns physicians and druggists to exercise the gnaiest precau- tion in protecting their supplies of these drugs, as well as in prescrib- ing them. Drug addicts will re- sort to any cunning to obtain the narcotics, In Toronto, for exam le, it was found that. withfn a ew months l8 addicts using 54 dif- ferent names had obtained 300 prescriptions for five different kinds of narcotics from 76 phy- siclacis. - Quebec Chronicle.

Gunner Wooiooeir was one of many Diggers who sailed away frcm Australia and left e, girl be- hind him. i-le had many adven- tures and eventually found him- self, floundering fn the Mediter- ranean ajter the ship on which he left Crete came off second best in a bout with a torpedo. Ten hours later motor boats appeared in re- sponse to essagea from an Italian Red Cress ‘plane and the gunners activities were curtailed. tn o. prison camp at Boizaria. Italy, Gunner Wooicock had lenty of time for meditation and he result of it ail was that. his girl in Mel- bourne received the following mes- sage: “Safe and Well. Remember sunshine always follows rain. Ai- ways thinking of you. I-fumbiy propose casement." The rn - ease had beep broadcast frc Vatican City, p:cked up in Sydney and sent on by the Apostolic dele- gation "I forgot. who: I said in mv reply." the girl. a beauty spec- iallst, told s newspaper woman "but I distinctly remember that one of the words was ‘Yes.’ No, h' hasn't replied-wet " 8a iibe girl is engaged to the gunner-hilt. does the gunner kziowft-Ausiralian Prev Union,

May I tlrsrrihrrif-lliilr game. u exercise that Civil Defence worker- will find useful as a diversion?

COMMENTS 0N THE NEWS

Sir.—Accordlng to information recently released in the House of Commons, two wheat farmers of Western Canada received more than $10,000, While fifty-six were hand- ed cheques between $5,000 and $10,000 ‘- bonus cheques - mind you, for not growing the wheat which all Euripe will be crying for in the near future.

Another House-Jrhe White House. concocted a similar idea when the U.S. Cotton growers received gen- erous cheques ftr not growing cotton. But that was back tn 1938-39 when production had run so far ahead of consumpticn, that far- mers were instructed to teach their 50w; birth controil.

I see by the Papers that Premier Campbell introduced a bill to amend the Prohibition Act.

The act of putting new claws.

and teeth into the Act has been going on as long as this writer can remember, and the fact still re- mains that anyone with an an tlte for “White Mule" cr “red bddy," can get the stuff, providing thcv are able to "cough up the dou h" Personally, I am a strong e- liever in getting reformation through education. Would not this suggestion be worthy of a trial?

If there be any truth lrrthe te- port that serviceable auto tires can be made from fish, it may yet come to pass when sportsmen of the “rod and line" will have to sit back and just, dream about. the big ones that used to get away.

“It is difficult these days to stir Political

up any enthusiasm for Controversy" Guardian Edit-

crlal Notes, To this statement tray the

we add: “Tempora M-utantur: times are changed."

"The business would suit anvohe who enjoys bad health." (from an advertisement in a New Yorl-r News- iiaperz) ‘imagine any one enjylng bad heath!

The first dill.‘ of n good citizen ls to speak with truth and nrn- 'pi'iety.

Even the best of u; u-rlte queer stuff nfw and then, Read this ex- tiaorrlinaiw sentence. in Cod- smltlfs “History of Enalrmd" "They effected bv conveying their letters to her [Mary Queen of Scots» bv means of a brewer that supplied the fnntil_v' with nle throtizh a ehlnk in the wall of her apartment." A queer bower that to supplv tile through a chlnk in the wall!

I am. Sir, t.ic., John Doe.

Comenius (New York Times)

This ls the 350th anniversary of the birth of Jan Amos Kcmenskv. It is in ifs Latinimd form. Comenbs. own to us. _ renowned and distinguished Czech of his con- tury and a. lifelong fighter against intolerance, orpresszon and injustice. Within the borders of what was once free CZGClIOSIOVLiRlfI this anniv- ersarv will nrt be observed. To the present rulers of that territory his

that his name is best kn Comenius was the most.

mm? is anathema.

Comenius could well lIHCiGYSlBDCI

the plight of the Czechs today. both in and cut of the country. for it wrs

ortrt and uarccl of his own exlstenc’.

Born in Southeast Moravia. he at- tendiri the tiniversltv and. became a member of the clercv. But war 2rd intolerance drove him out and he spent fcrLv-tivo of his seventy-eight wears as an exile. Holland. Sweden. Poland and Ens-land were at ore ilm-c o1‘ another 1 t stopping place, but none of them was a 5'“ tine for his own land. In LCSZllu. ' 11nd. where he had lived for many years. his home was sacked and burned in a scene stronlzlv contemporary. But in all that long while. through gum times and ill. he worked for the in- dependence of Bohemia.