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Pr: ideut, Lien-Col. W. Chain l. McLIro , Vice-President. l. B. Burnett. I'J.l. ' Secretory, LieuL-Cnl l). A. Wuelliunon. 0-8-0- ldiior nu) Mnnngin- Director. J. IL Burnett. IPJJ. p eot-iate Editor, Frank Walker.

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“The Strongest Memory is Weaker than tlte_ Weakest 11th."

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY ‘l, 194l-

m l Tomorrow's By-Elecllorl

Our local contemporary, lil enumerating alleg- ed benefits received by King's County from tlie Campbell Government, wisely refrains iron‘! contrasting the zimcitiiit of road work, etc., with that done in Prince Cotinty, where the lion's share of the contracts went. lt was, indeed, a subject of frt-tptetit protest in the Legislaturepon the part of the late .\lr. ll. H. Acorn, that First King's iii particular" was being neglected in fav- Qf of .othcr districts.

The arguments atlvattcctl iii the Liberal organ on -.\lr. Kickliiuirs behalf have already received their answer at tlie hands of Hon. Dr. “ac-l Millaii, \\'llU>L‘ exposure at the Souris tiicetiiig of the Government's gross extravagance, iii- ccitiipeteiicy, ziiid callous indifference holli to its own pledges ziiid its rcspotisibilities of office at this critical time, constituted one of the most effective spceclies- ever made from a political platform in this Province.

The prtsciit financial situation, as far as it is possible to llstcflillll, was dealt with in these columns yesterday Neither the Premier nor his party organ is >L'<_’llllllgl_\' desirous of discussing it. .\ll that is certain is that tlie coming session of the 1.0g .l:tttit'e will reveal further huge de- ficits lJtlllI on current and capital account, coit- bltlClTllJl) iii excl-sis of last year's estimate, with tlie inevitable iurtlicr increase in taxation which such extravtigaiicc- entails .-\ strong and vigilant tlppcisitioii is therefore of first importance. Nor \\ill the iiitcrt-ts of the district stiffer by the election of .~ttc'lt an energetic representative as .\ll". john .\l."ic Zlll, the Conservative candidate, who slitiws t-v y promise of proving an able sticce-siir in political life to his father and grandfather, lloii. ll._l). .\[acLctiti and the latte lttnicntctl Sciizittir .\lac[.eztn, whose iiatiie coit- tiiities to he revered throughout the Cotinty and l’roviiice.

Fiiflll Rehabilitation

Described by Premier Campbell as one of the chief reasons for calling the general provincial election last .\l:iy, before the roads were in pass- able contlitioii and when our farmers were other- wise busily cng. ed, \\'.'iS the “urgent need" of putting into e ct the Government's policy of lfarm Rehabilitation. The Premier was specific on this point, both in the Legislature and on the litistiugs. lii his final broadcast tiiessage ho stated: "Our fftlflll JCc/itiliili/rfliutt policy will be gut rm foo! itttiticditt/clv ttflcr tlie election, and rue ltitzw tilrctttly rcccircil from Ilia Douiiitieii Uuwcriiiiiritl (1 grunt.‘ of $35,000 lo assist itr ii: l/lf? Larlitlililr/iiti-ziiir (if l/iir iiii/iorlziiil firograntittc." (Patriot, May it», I039).

1t is strange th:it nothing has been heard from Goveriituctit stiurccs of this policy since the election. Stranger still that Premier Campbell should go all the way t0 Souris to address the First King's electors on behalf of his candidate, and have nothing whatever to say about Farm Rehabilitation !

Where did tlie $35000 federal grant go which was allegedly received to assist in the immediate inattgtiration of this policy? Has it gone the way of the $500,000 federal grant to rehabilitate the fishery industry, which was allowed to lapse because, as Dr. hlzichlillzin treitchautly said, “of an incompetent .\Iinister at Ottawa and a spine- less government in this Province"?

The Act passed at the last session of the Leg- islature gziie the (jovernmeiit wide powers to dcal with this matter. It tool: authority: (I) to acquire latiils stiitztlile for farm rehabilitation or for reforestration; (2) to allocate such lands to farmers’ sous under agreement for sale, rental or othcrivi-‘e; t3) to provide SUCh livestock, seed. and other iiiatcrizils needed for the operation of the farms so allocated or for the rehabilitation of other stibstitntlzirtl farms 0r needy farmers, (4) to arrange for adequate credit and security; (5) to €Fl5lllll>ll zind maintain an adequate sys- tent of §lll7'.'l'\'l\l(tll and inspection; (6) to pro- vide courses of instruction and demonstration for those Ztssistcrl by the allocation of lands; (7) to institute a detailed survey of ltandard farm lands; (h) to introduce a system of reg- istration of all young nicn who are potentially successful farmers but who cannot properly es- tablish them-elves without governmental assist- ance; and (o) in general to carry out any meas- ures which tii.'iy' be fl(‘(‘iil(.‘fl feasible and neces- sarv for tlie rcliziliilitiitiou of stihstatitlard farms and the tr-si-taiice of ncccssitons farmers.

The Premier's silence on the subject of this scheme which he claimed was of paramount lillpOflilllCL‘ lllilt‘ months ago, forced his candi- (late, 1\lr. I\'icl<li:ini. to attempt an explanation at tlie close of the Souris meeting. In brief, Mr. Kicltliztiifs contention \\'-'i$ that the 5cl1c|nc had had to be tlisggiiitiiiiieil "on account of the war."

§iirely the Liberal candidate could not have seen the many statements issued since the wnt by the Federal Minister of Agriculture, Hon. _l. (i. Gardiner! Mr. (jarditier has been stressing the urgent need of increased farm production all ovcr Canada, as a patriotic effort of the first importance and magnitude. The Dominion Gov- ernment has formed, since the war, an Agricul- tural Supplies (Tommittee for the purpose of speeding tip farm production. and of cn-oper- nting wiili provincial governments in this coit- nection_ It is obvious, therefore that if the Campbell (icivernineuPs farm rehabilitation

...lchqme was tirgcnt in May, i039. it is still more ' may and necessary now that Canada and tlie

Empire are at war, ivhen every effort should be directed at placing all the farm lands of the Province on a basis of maximum production.

It is an insult to the intelligence of the electors to argue‘ that the war was responsible for the Government's negligence and indifference to this plank in its platform. Mr. Kiekhanfs attempted alibi does not do him credit. It reveals a_ strong partisan bias, which can well be dispensed with in a Legislature already over-stipplied with partisan (ioveriiineiit apologists.

That Fish Meal Plant

Here is another pledge which Premier-Camp bell forgot (?) to discuss at the Souris meet- ing. It is taken front one of his own campaign speeches, as reported in the Patriot on May 9, 19391

“For several months past we have been coit- sidering the feasibility of establishing such plants (for the tiiaiitiizicttire of fish meal and other fish products.) We have not only investi- gated, as they (the Conservatives) propose to do, btit we have come to tlie conclusion that such a plztn is not only feasible btit desirable; and ctilicn this (iftTVfllHIFllf is rrlitrricd 1o [iowcr 0n the 18th of .l1ti_\-, l/ie cottrlritcfiort of f/te first of f/icsc filimts for the Ifiitllllffqf/IIVC 0f fir/t "will and ffA/l frcitlttc/r will lie l.\l.\l1~1D1.1\TliLY com- mciicctl.” _

'l'hat was nine months ago. Spring, summer and fall have P1l>§0tli we are now iii iuid-iviiiter; axn \\'lIl-'.ltl-I 1S TlIl-l l-‘ISII next tit/net?

.'\1l$\\‘¢.‘l'Z Still (ll lltili_fit.r.'

"Murder Most Foul

Here is the story, as told by the Ottawa cor- respondent of The liiiiaiicitil Post (Independent) Z

“Parliament assembled on ]an_ 25 in the full pleiiitutle of its powers. It died after a life span of four litiurs and seven minutes-miter drawing a single hrt-zith. lts death was the most cooly calculated, swiftly executed bit of political scuttliiig on record. ljztrlittment, indeed, is the first casualty in what is now being called Mr. l§iiig"s blitzkrieg.

“The :<.‘>>l\>t’t was born to the beat of druitis, the blarc of hi" ‘s, with llis Excclleticy Lord 'l‘\veetlsitiuir officiating and with the great and near-great .'i.~seiiihlctl to witness the event. judges, diplonizits, Senators and Coniiiioiiers, great ladies bc-jewelled and in costly gowns and ftirs, \\'Z1l'l'lt.‘l’S with gleaming sword-hilts and strings of ribbons across their breasts-all were on hand. lt was a birth befitting the Iliglt Court of the iitifitiii.

“Parliatiieiit perished obscurely—-the official death being announced casually by telephone call from one of the Prime .\liiiister's secretaries. Had there been a body; it would dotibtlcss have been dropped through zi hole in the ice into the Ottawa hiver."

— EDITORIAL NOTES — Ash \\'ednestlzt)'. Lent begins. 1F i ll‘ =l<

Today City (‘tiuiicil noiiiiiitilitiiis; tomorrow Sonris b_\'-clcctioii_

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Charles Dickens born this date, 1812. “If the law stipposes that." said .\ll‘. litiiiible “the l.'i\v is a a-s ~ a idiot." '

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It is not likely the Provincial Legislature will be called now till after the Federal election. Cus- toutarily it is called t0 or l.’ tliiys before Easter, then atljotirtiiiig for a week. Easter this year is Sunday, March g4, and tlie election the following Tuesday, the 2(>tli_

W i i i

Ilere is one of Premier Ilcpburifs argu- ments for a greater Cartatlian war effort: “If ever a man prostituted his post. it was .\lr. King during the Royal tour. Isle stuck his head out like a tiitid turtle every time. To look at Their Nfajesties, you had to look at him."'Which in- spires the following comment from a Globe and Zllnil columnist: “We were horrified at Premier I‘I8])l)L1l‘l1'S reference to Premier King a5 a mud turtle who was alivays snapping his head up and down. It W215 certainly an unworthy remark and tended to degrade the standards of decent de- bate while at the same time providing tis a rea- son for sitiiling every time we think of it. In fact, it was the iiiost ll‘lll_y-\\'lllg(.‘(l shaft of one public man at another since the day that R. R. Gamey referred to the late Rev_ j. A. Mac- donald as ‘the horse-liezitlcd editor of The Tor-

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onto Globe. n: e m n-

Dr. Simpson, who is Minister of Education for Ontario, has said that in his opinion “teach- ers should never keep boys and girls in after school." He would limit their instruction to the fixed hours of regular classes because after school “they need sunshine and fresh air to de- velop healthy minds and bodies." This is a love- ly theory, but what is the tinforttinate teacher to do with inattentive and lazy students? Cor- poral punishment is not in favor any more with educational authorities. Ilome work is an ac- cepted part of the school routine, but often ob- served more iii the rule than its observance. 'f'eachers, we may be stire, are not keen about after-school classes. but a lialf-liotir of inten- sive work llll(l(‘i' close stipervisiou, with the ele- ment of ptntishiiieiit attached, in some measure may atone for a stiitleiit’s neglect. ‘

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Ilere is ivliat Rev. Dr. Malcolm J. MacLeod nf Belfast and New York has to say of total- itarizuis, dictators and the prospects of world peace: “If the world ever needed to pray for anything it needs to pray for peace now. Two thousands years of bloodshed seem to have taught us nothing, and our generation once again tlrzigs out the lllfiiltl-Sfiiiffffl figure of Mars. But peace cannot be had by itself. It is a hy-prodtict. There is no peace without righteousness, no righteousness without gooil-ivill, no good-will without justice.” The arch-enemies of civiliza- tion today, he said, are those who are disturb- ing tlie peace with iniustice. “This brings up the question ‘Can lllf‘. Kirigtltim of God be made a real thing in this ivorlil‘ and the more {minted- ly, ‘Can we have a totalitarian government or- ganizeil along (Tliristizui lines ?’ I don't think we can. l tlon't tliiiulc we'll evcr have peace in this world tiiitil cvcry dictator is gtiiic."

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tunes BY TiIE win

Texan ravine ill hlchviwl with green-colored asphalt They will probably be very tube u soon as the motorist zeta over the teet- m: be i-s driving on SOIIICOIIwS lawn. - 8t. mills Times.

At Kutno an order has been issued threatening arrest and pun- ishment for any Pole who “smiles ironically" at or shows “any sign of contempt" towards l German or refuses to raise his bat to any German tn unlfomt. - Manchester Guardian

Things we miu in Western 0n- tarto-cliar store Indians, cracker barrels. chestnut. trees. barefoot boys, livery stables. fly nets on horses, peg top pant-s. two-tor-a- nickel cigars, earmutfs. life saver ropes 1n hotel bedrooms, pigtails on small girls, a natural complex-

ion on the big girls. - London Freejtrass. _ The other day. a yfllml man

marched into the Calgary re- cruiting office, intent on joining the army. Ahead)‘. 1n his mind's eye, he was wearing battle dress. But he could not join the army. They had no place for mm; m9)’ had no place tor thousands more like him in Alberta. “Oh!" he said. in a burst of disappoint- ment, "is the war still on?" There are a lot of disappointed young men in Alberta. There are between 4.000 and 5,000 young men tn thtc province who are desperately anx- ious t0 10in up. And there are as manv more who are willing to join, and are only waiting for the call. Every day. they walk into the re- crafting office, only to get turned back. Some say: "Thtws a funny thing!" And others. stung to bit- terness: “Maybe when they want. me. they Won't get me!" _ Calgary Herald.

In pursuance of their policy to carry on as many oi their ac- tivities as war conditions allow, the English-Speaking Union ari- nounoes that the Walter Hines Page ‘Travelling Scholarships will again be offered by lts educational committee in 1940 to enable (Brit- ish) teachers to visit the United State", of America.‘ The holder of the senior Page Scholarship (for women only) value £100. is tn- vlted to spend six t0 eight weeks in America as the guest oi the Etigllsti-Speaklrig Union of the United States. In 1940. also, three additional Page Scholarships have been offeral again respectively by the Association of Assistant Mis- tresses. the National Union of Teachers. and the Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters; they last for one month anti are each of the value of £50. Through the kindness of the Chautauqua. Institution. two scholarships are again offered to British women teachers entitling the holders to six week-s’ stay during July and August at the Chautauqua Summer School 1n the State of New York; one of these will be awarded to an elementary teacher. London Times.

The Germans have made the mis- take of waging a “war of nerves" against peoples who are steeled at last to the prospect of a. war f0 blood. One remembers that in Oc- tober Dr. Otto Dletizcn, the Ger- man press chief, emterged from a conference with Hitler and pre- dicted “the most gruesome blood bath 1n itlstory" unles; tlie Allies made peace quickly. The ivzir in the West, he said, would "begin in earnest" with 800 bombers, tn wave after wave. annihitatzng the British Navy. Nothing happened. in November Hitter announced “We will now speak to the British in the language they will probably best. understand." and Marshal Goerlng threatened to “rain down the war" from the skies over the British Isles. More recently in a New Year message Mar nal Guer- lng tried to make Allied neat creep by saying that only "a word from the Fuenrer" was needed to start a terrific bombardment of Great Britain, a fierce air offensive such as "the world has never known" The British people still watt. unterrlfted and ready_ —New York Times.

We often wonder if public lig- ures. who have a hard enough time as 1t is maintaining their dig- nity 1n a democracy, realize just what is being done to them by the movies and the radio. somehow

—-ju.st as very few people tn the world can really believe that they have fearful voices or take appal- ling photographs; 1t is not human nature to awept. such shortcom- ings, or to act accordingly. Not even for Prime Ministers. This is iby no means to speiik derogatively of the popular iiewsreel-iivhtcti. is probably, the most consistently good thing on the screen today-or the efforts of Cabinet Ministers, re- formers. sports commentators and ‘the like to spin out their verbal int-rents over the iiir waves. The tpotnt is that it. seems grossly un- tatr to people like Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, Right. Hon. R. B’ Bennett, or Hon. C. D. Howe, to put them in the position of such discomfort as to be embarras- sing even for the audience; for only one out of n hundred seems cap- able of saying anything intelligible 0r original or looking more self- confident than a school girl acting in her first pantomime. - From the Hamilton Spectator.

Senator Harmer of Alberta is in our midst again and that means another mystery for the province. He told Winnipeg newspapers that this was his first visit to the prairies for five years. According to the constitution Senators must abide in the province they repre- sent but when you get. to the Red Chamber a quinquennial visit seems sufficient proof of continued resi- denee. Many Albertans do not know that they have a Senator by that name but he has been in of- fice for 21 years and in attendance for 23 sessions. ‘Though far from spectacular. senator Harmer is a mart of deepest mystery. when tie was a regular, fli-hour-a-day Al- berta resident he was even more mysterious than he is now. when he said "good momlng" to you. be did it in such s. way that you wondered if he didn't. know a tot more about the morning than you did- and also if he couldn't unfold u dark tale about the youmz day if be malty cut loose and told all he knew. He fairly oozed mys- tery. In those days we said there were three symbols of mystery since tne world began There was the Delphlc Oracle, which knew

and would give the answer when uroperly approached. There was

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we feel they are oblivious to it all '

The Health League Oi Canada

mntotvm. - “mite-obi. a me most, potent weapon in the cun- patgn of prevention or ill health trotn faulty or detective diet and nutrittoiij’ Pointing this out, to l large audience 1n Toronto, Hon. Ian Mackenzie epdomed and tauncbett a woject undertaken by tlie Health League of Canada to advise women on me right foods to use. Practical demonstrations in cooking are to be given tn a num- ber o! city schools. 1110 syllabus for the course oi" instruction has been scientifically developed and when the success o! the project l8 known, it 1s hit/ended w outline the technique adopted hero for mo benefit of any part, of Canada de- ‘sltrous o1‘ unuertakmg similar work. an.o

The Minister of Pensions and National Health 1n urging the im- portance of nutrition in winning the war referred to what has been done since the oubtreak of hostili- ties. One of the prime facts report.- ed by his Department's medical re- search men was that seemingly substantial rations provided in the last war had been deficient in cal- cium. This fact. had been com- municated to the Department of National Defence. Ratlons for the present war had been substantially increased and varied to include art- icles of diet which would offset the types of illness to which 1t had been found that veterans of the inst had been especially subject_

"When I tell you," said Mr. Mackenzie, “that tuberculosis among veterans of the last, war has cost this country $150,000,000, you will see that there 1s an economic as well as a humanitarian value 1n this research."

The fteld of nutrition. ne said, was above all the one in which Canadians, as individuals, could learn the most with the greatest benefits to themselves.

"We need health in our aimed forces," he conttnued. "We need health tn the nation and we can achieve it only by having health in the home. Victory 1n the field will -be a. hollow achievement in this wtir if all that remains Ls a de- vitallzed home land. Our men have gone forth to flglll», to defend the living statidarcls that we have established here in Catiada. It will take sacrifices and deprivation on our part. to insure their success. But we must not let down our health standard. On the contrary. 11' we are to be worthy of our fighting men we must. strive to go forward in our war against ill-health. Some startling information on nutrition was contributed on this occasion by Dr. R F. Tisdall, D1- rector of Nutritional Rezearch Laboratories, Hospital for Sick Children. Toronto. and a, member of the Canadian Council on Nutri- tion. As chairman he pointed out that Great Britain spent one third of ‘its national income on food and Canada over 25 per cent. so that. the industrial group engaged in the production, manufacture and dis- tribution of food was the largest of all industrial groups. Dr. Ttsclatt snowed new nutrition affected the whole economic ltfe of a nation. Lack of the right food increased the tuberculosis rate, In Germany during the the last war one soldier died of tuberculosis to every six killed in battle. Etxcess mortality over normal rates amounted to 760,070 of the ctviltim poptttattcn and at the end 0f the war 800 more people were dying daily 1n Ger- many than would have died under ordinary conditions, and poor focd was the cause. Even 1n England and Wales the general death rate was increased by 13 per cent. During this war, Canadians were not likely to lack food but it was imstortattt to get. the right kind. Seferiee had proved that. there were 34 food elements necessary to ltfe_ ff a person was supplied with most. of these but missed any. his health was affected. t)r_ Tlsdnll referred to Vitamin B2 as rm example of ngcessary food elements. Experi- ments with rats had shown that the animals when deprived of this v1- tamtn dfed in two or three months. While discovered in 1933. it was not demonstrated until last month that the lack of Vitamin B2 definitely aBects humans. He warned htis hearers that. though they immed- latelv commenced diets to include all 34 elements, they could not ex- pect to suddenly overcome the re- fiptts of 20 to 30 years‘ improper