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Lient. Col. W. Chute: l. Helene s Vice-President: l. I. Barnett. I.J.l. Secretary: Llent. Col. l). A. lleelinnen, 0.10.

Iditor and Managing Director: .I. I. lnrnetL IJJ.

associate Editors: Frank Walker and Halt. Ian A. Burnett, B.C.N.V.lt. (On Active Service)

‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker This! the Weakest Ink."

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEE 10, i 1N5

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Important Coming Conference

On October 16 representatives of the Uni- ted Nations will meet at Quebec City to bring intn existence the first of the new permanent in- ternational organizations — the Food and Agri- culture Organization of the United Nations. The first co-operative effort of the United Na- tions concerning post-ivar problems was started by President Roosevelt in May, i943, when he convened the Conference on Food and Agri- culture at Hot Springs, Virginia. At this meet- ing the representatives of the nations fighting h qgressors gained their initial experience in the practical methods of working together for the promotion of the common welfare after vic- tory had been won. Out of the Conference came s recommendation for the establishment of an international organization in the field of food and agriculture through which countries would collaborate in raising levels of nutrition and standards of living, in improving the effici- ency of agricultural production and distribution, and in exchanging information on the progress achieved. *

The functions of the organization are to collect and disseminate information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture; and to promote and recommend national and international act- ion with regard t0

(al Scientific and economic research and respecting nutrition and agriculture;

(b) Conservation of agricultural resources and better methods of production;

(c) Improvement of the processing and dis- tribution of agricultural products;

(d) The adoption of policies for the pro- vision of adequate agricultural credit, and

(e) The adoption of international policies with respect to international commodity sr- rangements. fl

By these methods the Organization would endeavor to raise the levels of nutrition and at the same time improve the condition of rural populations throughout the world. °

Organization is to be carried out by an Exe- cutive Committee and by the Director-General and his staff. The Executive Committee will consist of the representatives of 9 to l5 member countries appointed by the annual conference. The Director-General will be the executive of- ficer of the (Drgauization to whom the expert and secretarial staff will be gesponsible.

At the meeting in Quebec City the Organ- ization is to be set in motion. The appointment of the lixccutive Committee, the appointment of a Director-General and the choice of a per- manent headquarters of the Organization are immediate taslts before the Conference. In ad- dition the Conference will consider the prob- lems to which the immediate attention of the Organization is to be directed and what aspects of the long-term programme can get under way.

The meeting will take place at a time when there is a world-wide shortage of food and many millions of people, far from enjoying adequate nutrition, are actually facing starvation. Also with the war over, countries everywhere must begin to consider the direction of their long- term agricultural policies -— policies which it i_s hoped will lead to a much freer flow of trade and much greater access by all peoples to the world's food than we had before the war. Noth- ing more need be said to indicate that the work of the Conference is urgent and important. True, the powers 0f the Organization extend only to advice, research and. the submission of proposals -—- it cannot itself bind governments. However, the need for guidance, information and consideration of mutual problems is great. The Organization's scope for useful work is im- rnense.

_Timely Warning

Speaking in the House of Commons in the debate on the Address, Mr. I. M. MacDonnell, Progressive Conservative member for Muskoka, Ontario, took solid ground when he declared lint the final decision as to the removal of war- lime controls should not be s prerogative of the Cabinet, but rather the right of the people's elect- ed representatives in Parliament. He pointed out that these decisions would have to be made shortly and in some cases quickly, and that such vital questions should not be decided “in camera by a small group of men." Mr. Mac- Donncll went on to say that every day these wartime imposed controls continued was one day more of tampering with the normal course of business, of retarding and discouraging the thousands of Canadians who are waiting and hoping for the day they can once more get busy and provide labor and wages, and revenues for the Dominion.

Equally to the point was the Muskoks member's plea for the lightening of the prodigi- ous taxation burden that was imposed on the country ditring the war. Excessive taxation, he pointed out, p_revented private initiative and ob- structed the currents of economic progress. Ad- mitting that if too little revenut were raised by taxation and too much by borrowing, there would be inflation, he nevertheless stressed the urgent need of gelling taxation down to rea- sonable peacetime levels with all possible des- patch. "

The Govermnent will he well advised to give heed to these timely warnings. Its most

Nuffield Organization, said recently that with

present British taxation a car owner now pays

about 2 shillings for each mile he travels. I

ed another world record for Britain by travelling

2,660,399 miles (4,l85,258 kilometres) during

her 3f years’ service at sea. She has carried

1,000,000 troops in‘ two wars. I

because of the scarcity of money, but she is offering Canadian manufacturers to open branches of their respective industries in her midst. Canadian manufacturers are very much concerned over the matter as Britain has hitherto been her most important outlet—apart from the U. S. A.—for her surplus produc-

tion. e s a u Nobody who has not the trouble of handling meat coupons and coppers sees any

objection to the resumption of meat ing. Unfortunately it is the "machine” being used for the purpose — the retail butchers- which is experiencing the trouble and annoy- ance, and unless it is made to run smoothly there will be more surplus meat than the Gov- ernment will know‘ what t0

Consulate at New York is a cynical humourist. Asked by the New York Herald Tribune what the inhabitants of Soviet Russia called——Russians or what?—he replied that the best name was sed the Soviets persisted in calling themselves "Russians, even though they know it is wrong." As wrong, he added, as for the citizen of the U. S. to call themselves Americans!

the best hotelled city on the continent. proposal by the Stratler organization to build s huge modern hotel over the new Central Sta- tion is going ahead. Another 1,000 room Ford Hotel is to be erected on s site provided at Windsor and Stanley streets by the Parish hall and rectory 0f St. George's Church for $225,000. It will be adjacent to the Windsor Hotel which is erecting a. 20 storey addition to accommodate 75o guests.

trolian News Letter, the oyster is not close- mouthed. He keeps his mouth open about 80 per cent of his life, snaps up small life, and strains his food through his whiskers. Scien- tific interest in the natural state of the oyster aroused Sydney press comment on its status. To the gowned and bewigged gentlemen of the law courts, it's an "animal." But the oyster achieved that distinction only after many a bit- ter court struggle. First man to "steal" an oyster from a private grower’s plot was acquit- ted. The learned judge, finding no precedent, ruled that an oyster, in its natural state, was a free animal. and held that no one could be guilty of larceny where a wild beast wasfoncerned. I

from Birmingham University and British brew- eries, s beer is now being produced in Britain which never becomes cloudy or flat. The equip- ment used for producing this perfect beer first of all ensures that the beer is of a much purer brew than hitherto, it also conveys the beer from the cellar to the pumps without having a detri- mental effect on its high quality and purity. A serving machine then pours out a pint or half s pint with infallible I

place this date I772 when Catherine of Russia, Frederick of Prussia and Joseph of signed s treaty, giving Russia miles and s population of 3,050,000, Prussia, i060 square miles and a population 0f '1,r 50,000, and Austria 1300 square miles and 700,000 of s population. This included about one-third of the Polish Kingdom and some of provinces; the three plunderers bound them- selves in the most solemn manner to from asserting any further clainm on the prov- inces retained by King Stanislaus-a pact shamefully violated by a second partition in r793, and s third in 1795, when the remain- ing territories of Poland were divided between the three powers, her King deposed, and her-

prsssing task is not to find new ways of spend-

illll the country's revenues, but to solve the vital problems of national And the two prerequisites to the solution of these problems are to get rid of regimentation and to place taxation 0n a sound and rational

basis.

economic

Any Gum, Chum‘?

Among the war materials which the United N States war department has decided it can now permit civilians to have is chewing gum. Contracts for 20,000,000 packages, valued at $600,000, have been terminated by the army, according to an announcement from Washing- ton, ushering in a new dawn for the myriad gum chewers of America. Gum wss part of the ration issued to all American troops overseas, and was delivered with their meals, thus distinguishing them from Canadian soldiers who could receivegum only in parcels from home or through the Canadian Auxiliary services, and from British soldiers, who preferred tes anyway. Chewing gum used to be issued to Ameri- can troops because the authorities thought, for reasons which they kept a closely guarded mili- tary secret, that it did something to settle a man's nerves. with reconversion headaches accumulating, is doubtless felt that the need of civilians for a sedative, even one so mild as chewing g1, is greater than the need of soldiers.

It helped him to relax. Now,

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-EDITORIAL NOTES-

Sir Miles Thomas, vice-chairman of the

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The British liner “Aquitania" has achiev-

Britain is compelled to restrict imports

opportunity

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Mr. Pavel I. Fedosimov, of the Soviet

should be

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They are looking ahead to make Montreal The

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Contrary to popular belief, says the Aus-

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He classified it as a “wild beast"

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Thanks to the co-operation of scientists

accuracy. O O e The First Dismemberment of Poland took

Austria

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its richest refrain

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church was discovered on a farm

lng the owner of the laud, had ever seen or heard of before. - Colliers Magazine.

Back in 1906 s naturalised Ger- man set. aside s trust, fund of £70,000 for a national theatre tn London. And ever since a com- mittee has been guarding the be- quest. which now has more than d0ubled—£160,000. Once, in fact. the committee bouxht some ground with the idea of building he theatre in time for the hake- speare teicentenary tn 1918, but nothing happened except that. the ground was sold at a profit. Now some more o tstlc chaps are saying the bu lding may be ready in 1965 for the quatercentensry, - New York Times.

For those who fear that the brave new world may streamline all the Joy out of living. here's one note of comfort. The British are going in for the bicycle en's xran- der scale than ever before — yes, the old-fashioned push as you so two-wheeler with a. handle bar to be grasped and a seat to be sat on by a person who has to use hls legs to get him where he wants to

‘he human animal will want. to re- gain some of the simple things of the good old days that they plan to produce six million a year - twice the pre-war latch-Baltimore Sun.

During the past (no or three years the products of the British film 1nd ‘ have reached a higher level of excellence than ever. From some aspects the stan- dard reached tn the documentary field has been unparalleled, while in the fiction film a good deal of leeway between the excellence the American film and the tn- ferlority of the pre-wsr British films has roused ambitions that. they should win access to the Am- erican market, In many recent discussions on films. tn parliament and elsewhere, It. has been alleg- ed, without adequate wldence be- ing produced, that British films are cold-shouldered, in America. This ls an important matter upon which the public would like more facts and some expression of ex- pert opinion-Glasgow Herald.

Seaweed has been used for many years ln the East for commercial purposes and for food_ but. ll; ls only of recent date that America has discovered that some of her seaweed yields agar, which 1s use- ful for soups, ice cream, as an ad- hesive, and for many p ses where gelotlne has been us . It can be used as a sizing for pa er and cloth, in canned f';h, pastr es, and even as sausage casings. The immediate species used for these purposes is known as Gractlaris confervotdes, and grows tn At.- lantlc waters. — War Cry.

General Wainwright says with authority that, card players who expect, to beat, the game of solitaire consistently might as well give it. up as a bad Job. “I played s lot o solitaire in prison," the return- ed hem of Corregtdor said in an interview. “I set. a project for myself to find out the percentage of wins tn 10.000 games. "By the time my rescuers arrived I had played 8,642 games and the per- centage of wins was six and eight- tenths. ‘Of course. I have no re grets about not finishing the test." -_Assoetated Press.

Slr,—l-‘or countless Frenchmen like myself" your famous Big Ben at. Westminster will have a stir- ring emotional effect for many years after this European War. I was a French airman at the time my country collapsed. Then I went underground as a member of the Resistance Movement. During those years of German occupation the chimes of Big Ben on our hidden radios night after night gave us comfort and strength. As long as we heard them we knew that Lt- berty was not dead. For Europe Big Ben was the symbol of hone. Recently I came to London. The

first thing I wanted to see was Big Ben. It gave me the most. mov- ing moment of my visit-Paul Verdbofs, Paris.

rna BLACK vol/runs Aloof within t.—h:—dll'l enormous Io holds imshered u» silence a m dawii axioms, relentless eyes

self obliterated from the amp of Europe.

in England which no one, lnclud- 5

go. So certain are the British that m

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They gave their all for their coun-

ed u) make a contribution of every piece of wearable clothing that; lt can s are. There will be no other ooll ions for any of these coun- tries during the balance of the year 1945. There are over 125,000,000 people in liberated areas who are fu dire need and, of this number, more than 30,000,000 are children. I have b asked to head the committee _ this district and have agreed do so, but we can- not do such a job as M, should be done unless we have the co-opera- tton of every single organisation the entire community. I have r-lled a meeting for Friday, the 21st of Se mber, at 7.80 o'clock in the Cly Hall. I would like each and every organization to nominate not less than two peo- ple whose duty it. is to attend but all members or any of the public who desire are welcome. The date of the drive is from October 1 to 30, 1M5, but. it. will be necessary to make all plans as early as the 21st. I know that many have been working hard for five or six long ears in order to do their share in the we: to s successful

cone on. but might I point out that. if the eople in si the lib- era coun es of Europe are not

to starve or freeze to death, the vlcto will be a very hollow one lndee . I do not believe that. excepting for three or four ple who will assume consldera e responsibilit- ies. this drive will of necessity enball a great deal of work upon any individual. The more workers we have, the better the result and the easier on all of us. ‘m all our citizens, I would say: If your par- ticular organization is not having a meeting between now and the 21st of September, will you be good enough to see that represen- tatives are appointed? I em anx- ious that we should take as little of your time as osslble and hope that. all of the etsils can be ar- ranged st this/one meeting. Th can only be-‘accompllshed If we have a good turnout.

Collection Canadian United Allied Relief Fund.

ARE WE THANKFUL THE WAR. IS OVER?

Sir,-Csnsdlans, along with all the peoples of the United Nations, have for sis: long years been fish lng, working and ‘pvfiaytng for vic- tory and peace. e victory has been achieved at a terrible 00st In ltfe, in property and S lsl days have been or rejoicing and for . But are we a thankful that peace has onoe more come to the world? Certainly the men and women who are recum- lng day by day from the war zones are profoundly thankful that it ls all over. You can ses in their faces as you pass them on the etty streets. ‘There is a wistful wonder in the eyes of those men as they look around on familiar scenes and faces which they left behind them three, four and five years ago, not knowing whether they would ever look upon them again. They can hardly believe tt is true. and not merely another of those dreams of home which haunt.- ed them in their sleep on the battlefield. ._ When my eldest son arrived home from Holland, utter five years overseas service, he me that for the first few days he went around the house “ inching hlm- self" to make sure t at it was all

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Yea. it is real. Victory has been won- peace has retumed, and our fighting men are returning. Thous- ands of them will never return.

human treasure.

alt Whitman's lines come

TY- ‘ aptly to mind in thinking of men: .

blue Qitarlds shore, As I mused on these warlike days deed that return no more."

Those who are returning src

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