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TIII-IFSDAY SEPT. 2. 1943

The Liberal Campaign

1t has taken the local Liberal organ a long timfl to discover 111 Brenner Jones the ideal man to head a govcrumt-m of this lfiruviiice. Ml". 101155 was in politics as far bziclt as 192i, when he rim against the federal Liberal candidates as a Pru- gtessiic. .\ scureh through our cemteiiiporary s tiles of that year fails to reveal uriy BpPYQCiFiIIOH on its part of Mr, Jones‘ tmiqtie qualities, either 51.1 u intuit-r or a political leader.

liteu when the present Premier entered thfi arena 11s 11 Liberal candidate in the PfoVlllCla-l eltctioit of i935, he received scant attention fr°iii lllS party press. Sitting for eight years as a back- btucl: >ii}>|ti>1'l<'r of the Campbell Government, he n.5, n ham- been Cinderella herself, and our con- temporary the cruel stepmother of the story, fOr all the interest it took in him. Certainly it never hurbouretl the suggestion, during those yfiflrSi that being :1 farmer .\lr_ jones was better quali- fied to lead the govermucut than Premier Camp- bell, who was a la\v_\‘er. But now, according t0 our couiemportiry, this is the "Outstanding r93- son" why he should be itidorsed at the polls and why the Conscrvzttive leader-being a profess- ional mzn1-—sbould bc turned down.

This ltittd of propaganda is something \vhich our farmers should view with grave suspici0n. ItS obvious insiucerity is not the wbrst feature 0f ll- \‘\'e do not want class warfare in this Province, and those who seek to set class against class. and cater to narrow sectional prejudice as the Liberal organ is doing in this case, deserve tifllhing bu! condemnation.

The same campaign, it Will be recalled, was at- tempted by the Liberal Party of Ontario in cori- tiection with Premier Nixon. It proved a sorry failure there. The biggest vote in favor of the Conservative candidates under Colonel Dre\v came from rural constituencies-from farmers who resented. the Liberal attempt to exploit Premier Nixon as a. farmer. Like the Iones Gov- ernment, the Nixon Government was new? but it was tarred with the old Liberal Party britFh. and the electors wanted a change.

The same thing is due to happen here. 110t- withstandinq the belated discovery by the Liberal press that Mr. Jones is a farmer.

Why The Distinction

' The Ottawa journal commenting editorially 0n

' an order-itrcouticil dated August; 11 giving D6-

feuce Minister Ralston authority t0 send addi- tional calling up (Home Defence) lY°°P5 I° Newfoundland and Labrador, the Bahamas. Jamica, British Guiana, Alaska and the Uhlled

‘States, observes that call-up troops are alffiifd)’ serving in these areas, or in some of them. lhc new order merely provides for the lkfiPaiCll of reinforcements, this as from time to time Such _a step is deemed necessary “having regard to mth- tary exigencies.”

Military exigencies! pertinently adds The J01"- nal! Ii the military exigencies were such as 1° tnakc desirable or necessary the (lcspatch of Call" up troops to reinforce Canadian armies 111 Lurope, would they be sent? That ts one of the things that many Canadians cant understand about this “llonte Defence" army. The Govern- lilLitl used authority to send such troops to K151"!- \\‘by shouldn't it have authority -— 0r use 311th" (irity——to send them to Sicily? Or to any 0th!!!‘ war theatre? Surely there is n0 difference be" tween fighting for Canada in the AlfiillaflS 311d fighting for her in liuropc?

Yet the (invernttictit, by some strange Process 0f rggisiming, m‘ by flying into the i336 of R13‘ S-rtt. refuses stubbornly to cut out this t\V0-?1Y""@5 i-nnst-nst- and stir courageously and sensibly that all ziblv-binl" iil‘.'ii called HI) if" 567""? are lizibl; for scrrce cvei-y-\\'l1cre. The culling Out of this regional liability business, with all K5 harmful (lisiinctititis, would strike at the roots 0f our mrtnpinver troubles, give us total war m fact as well as umuc.

The Lumber Industry

Canada's enormous timber resources have plztyed an intportanr part in supplying the War- time reqnirtments of the DUIIIlIIiOH and h" Alliss. loud protlitctioit of lumber in 1941, the l1i~l yeiu- b»:- which statistics are available, was 4.491,uo<),o0r; feet, exceeding the PFEViOuS Q5111" adntu record of 4,918,000,000 feet set in I911. A large part it this production was shipped to the ljmtet] Kingdom, either in the f0rn1 0f IIIEIHIIfBCI- lured products or unprocessed. Total domestic consumption of forest products in 1941 was 3,032,000,000 feet.

An ittilicfitiou of the greatly increased demand for Cuutuliziii lumber is provided by the figures frlr lmilvling contracts in Canada, amounting to $393.noo.orio in 1941 as compared with $l37w ocoooo in i938, In i942 and during the firs! fev. nlnltllts of 1943, there was a considerable dtclitte, but cimstruction was still above the [ieflcfi- tTme ye ‘s. British Columbia is the largest pru- ditecr 11f \.'l\\‘ll lumber, accounting for 75 per cr-nl nf the total Doinininii timber cut in 1941. About 45 pf" cent of the tfilfll cut in that Prfiv- ince is lir, known for its strength rind durability dud much favored for use in shipbuilding, for

ltructural timbers and for piling. Other ant vlrietie: in the province are western - lock, western red cedar, Sitka spruce, yellow cypress, red alder and broad-leafed maple. Au- othcr important producer is Quebec, with white, red and jack pine, spruce, fir and hardwoiiids.

feet, a gain of more than a fifth u compared with

1939 _ , _ Canadian lumber interests are Optimistic about

the post-war outlook, particularly in view 0f tht

Britain after hostilities have ceased. Mainten- ance of a high level of exports to the British Isles depends oti the continuance of the existing lgree- ments. These may have to be adjusted for thfi general good, even if foreign competition should cut into them. But even if a part of the British market should be lost, there will still be a huge back log of domestic demand on account of the curtailment of civilian needs during the war. One adverse factor is the rapid depletion of the great Douglas fir stands in the west. This Confirm?! to be one of British Columbia's most serious problems.

t- EIHTQRIAL Caino, lvIussolinYs s-on-in-law, has escaped, ap- parently to his "spiritual home" Nazi land. - 4 w u

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Hitler evidently wants hostages of high degree for negotiation purposes, Kings, premiers, etc. But there ain't goin’ to be no negoriatin’.

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Indications are that the King government will prefer 2o months of troubled existence to facing, by an electoral appeal this fall, nothing better than a stalemate and, probably, something much worse. at u u a

Lord Kitchener, then Colonel, defeated the Dervishes at Omdurman, Anglo - Egyptian Sudan, this date, 1898; Omdurman is an Arab trading centre 011 the Nile opposite Khartum, dealing in ostrich feathers, ivory and gum arabic.

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The election campaign is beginning to warm up a littll, but there is apparently great lack of

reports of the dead and wounded COming from the battle zone? An election now is worse than a crime. n u n: v Demobilization of instructors is on its way at last-the thin edge of the wedge. (1) A number of officers and men now employed on training centre staffs will be released for duty as re- inforcements or returned to civilian life. (2) Included in the scheme of reorganization is the already announced closing of the officers’ train- ing centres at: Three Rivers, Que, and Gordon Head, B. C. w w n- w At the National Boy Scout Conference in Ottawa this week greetings from the Boy Scouts of the United Kingdom were carried to the c011- ference of Scout presidents, commissioners and secretaries by Wing Cmdr. Guy Gibson, V. C., the R. A. F. pil0t who led the raid on the Mohne and Eder dams i11 the Ruhr early this summer. Wing Cmdr. Gibson is a former Rover ScOut, and the sixth Scout to be awarded the VictOria Cross in this war. i * IR Was the Vfigflialmmcampaign comparatively bloodless? Not by a. long chalk. In the five weeks from July 6 to August 14, a total of 14,898 wounded and sick men were flown from Sicily to hospitals in Algeria and Egypt by the R. A. F: U. S. Army Air Force Medical Services, the British air ministry has just reported. The two air forces collaborated completely in the pooling of planes. Ir. some cases the R. A. F. Piovided orderlies to fly on American ambulance transport planes.

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Farm production reports from Ontario and Quebec show a falling off in the outtnrn of wine grains but generally the food sunplv this fall and winter is not yet causing concern. There will be plenty of cereals in the country. an abundance of food for the dairy herds, and while there has been a short crop of some perishable fruits cer- tain surpluses accumulated from last year will

help to balance conditions. i i i I

Particulars regarding the racial composition 0f the population of Canada, as shown by the census o5 1941, were published recently. They indicate that one ou‘. of two persons was of British Isles origin, roughly one i11 three was of French origin, one out of six was of other European descent, one of every hundred was Asiatic, and a similar proportion, Indian and Eskimo. C0m— pared with 1931, the distribution showed a slightly lower proportion of persons of British Isles races. and a correspondingly higher ratio of French racial origin. Actual percentages of the total population in 1941 by grOupS, with per- ccntages for I931 in brackets, were as follows: British Isles races, 49.7 (51.9); French, 30,3 (13-2); Other European, 17.8 (17.6); Asiatic, 0.6 (0.8); Indian and Eskimo, which included half-breeds on reserves in 1931 only, 1.1 (L2,) A comparison of the net changes during the past decade showed that persons of British Isles orig- in increascd in numbers from 5,381,071 to 5.715.904, o: by 6.2 per cent. The population 0f French origin increased from 2,927,990 to 3,483,038, m by 19 per cent, and other European races rose from 1,825,252 to 2.043926, u gain of 11.9 per cent. On the other hand, the number of Asiatics dropped from 84,548 to 74,064, a decline of 12.4 per cent, caused chiefly by g fall- ing-off in the number of Chinese in Canada. Comparing the principal racial groups in the various provinces, the 1941 Census figures showed that British Isles races were relatively’ most numerous in Prince Edward Island where 82.8 per cent of the population was of British- Isles origin, followed in rum by Nov; Semi: v/ith 77 per cent, Onatrio 71.1, British Columbia 69.9, New Brunswick 60.5, Alberta 50.2, Mani- toba 49.9, Saskatchewan 44,4 and Quebgg 13.6 In tl1e Province of Quebec, persons of French origin comprised 80.9 per cent bf the population, in New Brunswick 35.8 per cent and in other provinces ranged from 15.7 per cent in Prince.

Iizdward Island to 2.7 per cent in British Colum- bia- - - - - s e ,

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enthusiasm. How could it be Otherwise with daily boo

Allied nlr force urs: Home Ber- lin, ‘III. llllnn, Goons.

lirns ciritriwrrnowu cusnnmv

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Production in 1941 totalled over 1,000,000,000 good

enormous housing program expected in Great this diam

baker. xedplc ed. Eton ard.

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A report from Pludem Cal. statics that. when Frank Sinatra, who in some sort or i1 crooner. arrived there by train he was held up 0n the by

a. naming, crowd of ‘teen-age g is. cllmor to got. near enough ID touch him. n hysterical girl bit a. news- pc no arm. and after the a) got; the singer into a garage

talk to reporters, the girls beat and kicked M. the door. - 8t. ‘Ihomu ‘limes-Journal.

“Bplncch may originally have come from New Zealarid." Come, cane-this is no time for recrim- motions amon comrades 1n arms. —Wfnnipeg Tr une.

Britain lul roqnlsitloned hun- dreds of private cars recently, but: in no case has the power to com- mandeer been

been surprised in most cases at. me prices which government depart- ment-s are prepared to pay. mommy of War ‘Transport tn Lon- don has a schedule of all cars in private gnd public garages.

Coffee rntlonfng ls about l0 ex- pire. Later the restrictions on s ar may be lifted. but On this pom one should not. expect too much. The vast; fonnagcs or sugar required by a modern industrial nation enter into a great. variety of us, but. all but: a small fraction of coffee is used for a beverage Ind nothing else. Many hazards of weather and cultivation will have to be met before the sugar supply is 0n an assured normal has , even ff there should be plenty of shipping available. Chicago Daily News.

A doctor of London, Ontario, "Y: that rationing will rove a. n to Canadians and oulci be continued after the war. As far as

th is concerned. the good dce- tm ma be right. but: we shudder to thl of what would happen Lo the government. tr ing to put. his theory into practce. -Ktngston Whiz-Standard.

Overseas mails are late some- times but they get through in spite of Wat's mfsha . On an African

, of mail salvaged from a 811p were spread out to dry. Sea. water had ruined some of the correspondence, but. the ad- dresses were decipher-ed and the mall was sent, on its way to Lon- don. Matls tn the steamer Honor- nta were late. The Germans at:- nouneed they had sunk me ship, but the crew patched up the hole torn by torpedoes and the Honor- ata. crept. across the Atlantic with its mall.

Necessity, thaf-WIIT known moth- er of invention. has bet-n up to

1892

(J. K, G. WEIR, In the Christ- " ion “ ' Moniior)

‘Ihe theatre Ls packed, bu; for one empty box. A good house. ex-

ctant: of umusement—a friendly, aughtng, cheerful house.

“Oh. here they come. three sold- iers, what; do you think, and one of them a. "Yan ". Idly one watches agree men take their places tn the

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Suddenly. an electric shock of recognition, a hush of fncredulity spreads through the house, a breathless graps, and then the shout:

“Montgomery's here!" “Mont- gomery's home!" “Do you see him In that box on the left?"

"It: can't be Montgomery, I ask you-he isn't 1n this country."

“It Ls. though. I'd knovw that salute of his anywhere. let alone his black beret!"

Wave after wave nf cheers. Everyone on their feet struggling wit-h opera glasses, waving pro- grams wildly

“Montgomery! Montgomery!"

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The man who welded the Eighth Army; the man who saved Egypt; the man who gave us E1 Alameln. and 'l‘rfpoii, and Maretn, and the rest; the idol of the “Eghtlf-Montgcmery is actually here before us. Cheer after cheer rings out, acknowledged by a wide- flung. slow salute.

Press photographers appear from nowhere in the boxes opposite. Camezns flash and click. The 1n- Crerh-ilviis tire convinced. "It's Mont- gcmery all right!"

People in th-s box above him crane perilously over the edge.

. Feel-

her prolific tricks again. according to The American Merchant Marine News. This time she has led sai- vagers to the boilers and fire boxes of cargo-carrying vessels and re- vealed a source of vanadium. 1n addition to this hardening agent for steel. flue boxes are needed in the manufacture of aints. vurn- fshes and printer's in . Vanadium, apparently. ls found ln the flue dust from oil-burning engines, and tits dust; is In greater quantities if the vessel uses oil rtrawn frcm California or Venezuela. When a. m1 arrives ln port these clays tts bofer tubes are cleaned and the fire boxes are scraped. The dust. is then packed into bags and sold to the hghest bidder, who extracts the vanadium. Before the war the United states imported most; of its

of countless merchant ships are new adding substantially to our steaks of n material so badly needed.

What. a small fight world it is In which Anthony Eden has just hopped from England to Quebec in probably less than 24 hours! What a. loose. sprawling, disinte- ggotted world it must ‘nave been tn

Montcalm and de- stiny outside the walls of Quebec! Dying 50 ears before the first: steamship. 5 years before the first railroad. 160 years before the firs: airplane, General Wolfe, for all his brooding imagination. could, scarcely have conceived a world shrunken 1o the dimensions of our airplane size. and. as a result, the flung we call global war. -—New York Times.

A writer In Wednesday's Times reports that. the musk tn her greenhouse Ls regaining lLs scent. —and I have no doubt. that. her letter will provoke as much further corresponden as letters reporting the first cuckoo habitually do. I am no botanist, and it may be that the isxtraordfnuy unanimity with which musk-plants throughout the world became suddenly scentiess twenty years or so ago has been satisfactorily explained. But I have never seen um explanation, nor does there seem w be any reason why the scent. should gradually reimm- Janus, in ‘Ihe Spectator.

But we are wrung If we think that slacks are a modern woman idea. Away back in the misty past the hourls of the East wore trous- ers which reached to their fnstepa. They may have veiled their faces but they were not. afraid to wear punts. Almost n hundred yearn n30. when crinollnes were the ac-

er. n, very determined lad . l erunde in the United tater for dress reform for women. In 1849 she took up the idea-inreviouslv orirrlneted by Mrs. Elizabeth B. Miller - of a woman's costume which would prescribe the-wear- inl of n short skirt with loose rs gathered around the ankles. The name of "bloomers" gradually became popularly nt- t to any divided skirt. or er dreu for wmnen.

liven yet. bloomers are not. en- tirety urknown. We don't know what. ma. Bloomer would think of slacks but we imagine that the would’ vs them her blessing. - Ivrt lllllm Timea-Joumal. Recent

Mllln qaolntl on the

Too bad! Thy can't. see him fngs surge.

We slmnly must let him see we're proud of 111m. We must show him ufmt these victories or his on the desert roads. 1n the wudls and Tun- fsfan hills have meant to us

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From somewhere, someone has found a box of chocolates and we. sects them to the General-surely a modest gift for a life-size hero? Look! d

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the V . After till. dld he not. first

S-i-W its the vision rrf desert vic~ Mr. Wlllkle,

when many

He tries to hush the house, The lights are lowered. The play

1'15. We mustn't cheer in the intervals.

This u scriib country aria the tall S 88h fihOlllfgif to purple shoulder on the

Y Ltke Oiu, old men. They chute from dull brown-green To emeruid wnere time creeks rfn:

y. Brought roads wind redly up

bin-ill. square paddocks ploughed in chocolate lines Make pnrenwork patterns. Cheq- ered sunshine spills In light. and dark through Norfolk Island lnes 0n quiet country homes. Yet. stilt among $11031: mun-made, man-kept. things Stand smaii scrim patches where the tortuous tracks Twilt. leaf-deep, dank. wild wis- taria flings Its misty mauve abroad and wind lick-clue.

c In parchment leaves of honey- rees

And

suc e t Laden with spiny cones. Red fungi cowls crouch, dwarfltke, round the bole; Of burrawon s. n ve s Cluster on tree boughs by dim water ales Where prick-cared Wallabies clump down to rfn And Daddymelons, hopping through e Bend bpfbbles scattering down the In silent. pools where milky weeks grow lush. Cascades of crimson berries lhflply On tall gcrub giants. ‘Rio hardy kurr ougs Reach up to suppiejwks, and IUD- n s s - Past frag-fen? lODI Ind lqultty burrnwo In spindiy fashion. Bonnier p ms Above them all towards the um r ea. This is Australian loveliness thrt l In smaligscrub patches close to man-kept thlnis. -J M Dw f t.h 8 onn c 3511118“: e ydney krlchen. Bonn. Wesselri , Mann- heim, Ludiwigshnfen, err-thug

and Wfener-Neuatadt. The ens , no doubt. recalls Mr. Ohurichil’!

Golcon-

romise of "citylayr city" Much.-

govemment to release ‘I'll III‘ HGIIIIID lI-l-OIIIGII

Every 3 wail (instead of 4) use two 2 on. Ton coupon! " " " 8 on. Cofioo

Welcome To A Hero,

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Good News!

Tu and Coffee drinker: in Canada lino flood cause _to be thankful to U86 ‘Allied Navies for rho substantial increase in our muons in affect 10-day.