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greater demand, and poultry is likely to be- come scarce.

Last year Canada fell down on the contract made to supply Britain with a stated quantity of eggs. That was not good business, nor fair to the people nf Britain and there should be no l't'[)(‘1lll0lI. Yet if we are going to fill the I943 l" Llcontract, 25 per cent grflatcr than last yeflris‘,

Ind Llnlll, , tlic hens 0f Canada \vill have to be extremely

SUBSCRIPTION RATED K lull In P, IS. I. $1.10 per your: 82.50 rnr G month: l ,.. w 31,2:- fur u mimllil; 50c Iur one month ‘ 1H1“ eggs" City Delhi-r) $5.1m per your: 83.00 for ti munthl $1.75 (or 3 munthl: (500 [or on; mouth

s; nun u. inim- PPOUIIPCI and u_u..\. 53.00 pol‘

Inlnrdny Weekly: $2.00 int-r your: 60c for 3 month:

busy. or the people of Canada will have to eat

.1 The contract is for at least 63_million dozen, n" l which means about 2,100,000 cases or about 11.00 for e mnntnmll 7,000 filled freight cars of eggs. They are turn-

led to powder form in Canadian plants, put up

The Chiulnttotnivn

lloliullng’; Nnwu rlxeniyv. 'l‘lniu flqunre, New Vnrlu 011i] mn- New: Agent-y, (‘nrmvr lllili "a manner...- "(IIRIIIII ounce packages for household use. Iolrumilltun howl Ala-mgr, IZUI ‘lnn-QIIIHIII. llnntrrul. J, Flue; Package Contains a dozen eggs‘

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Guardian nu: be

""1""! "i in i4-pouud packages for wholesale trade, five- The small

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In addition to eggs the poultry trade is ex- pected to supply Canadians this year with 26o

“The ggrojriest [yemm-y i, weaker 11m" i million pounds of meat, an amount it may have the Weakest Ink."

difficulty in obtaining owing to better egg prices.

TUESDAY. APRIL 27. 1943

l We may have to pull in our belts a little 0n both I eggs and poultry. There is a limit 0n what even

The Next I00 Days

lt is nu more than thc truth, writes Stratcgicus that the Germans will resort to any expedient before they surrcnilcr, They have said as much, so mzuiy times that, paradoxically, the warning But it itiust on this" Oc- valuc; and, cvcii if we had any tendency to writc it down, thc fact.» The naval changes must The .~\llies live and fight 0n their sea coniniuniczitions; zind the recent cliatigcs 1n the ticrniatt Navy mean nothing at all if they do not imply a more massive and radical assault ClllllllllllllCllllollS. ways are cut, there still remain the roads; and, frequently, even if the main or direct railway lines are scvcrcd there arc stibsiiliary tracks that serve for (lCCZhltllllll strains, though they might not be a. reliable stand-by for permanent sup~ llut on the sea it is the shipping which, * g g g track it may, cannot be hidden from the unslccping eye of the reconn- aissance planc, and must follow some known! and well-rccoiiiioitrcd track before it at lasti

may lmve lost its tiurcc. Cusioii be given its full fa"

speak for themselves. be taken seriously

upon these

port. travel by whatcmr

reaches its destination.

The German naval changes are shaped by a It is precisely these shipping lanes that in the end must converge on a known In some places nature has prepared

definite objective.

bottleneck".

hottleiieclcs that cannot be avoided.

l our prolific Canadian hens can accomplish.

— EDI IORIAL NOIES-

Don't wait to be asked, show your interest by

volunteering to buy zi bond. 1K 1k ll! 1F

The pns-sibilitv that bananas may disappear i-ntircly from the Canadian market is seen by fruit dealers who report carload shipments front 1 Mexico and other Central American countries ,; through ilie United States to Canada have been. l prohibited 0n the request of the Department of 1 Defence Transport in the United States.

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When the rail-

Considcralion is being made by the Prices Board to representations of retailers who object to ra- tion coupons becoming good on Saturdays, their busiest day. It is considered liltely that the effective date for coupons may be changed to the middle of the week.

Farmers take note. By order-in-council pass- ed at the instance of the Minister of Justice, a Judge is empowered to stay any court action for [mortgage foreclosure against a. farmer. It is a war emergency order, the power being con- ferred on the court “for the purpose of retain- ing on the land, during the state of war now existing, an efficient and industrious farmer of

Such are whose good faith he Stthijmdge) is satisfied."

the Sicilian Channel, that is still limiting our freedom of yiassfige in the Klcditcrrzuicau. lint It is slicer illusion that similar constrictions do not face Allied shipping as it comes in the cud t0 its ports of i-ntry. The attack upon the Al» lied sea-limes" has been increasingly tiusuccessful for some months; but these include the worst season for l.'—boat operations. In the phase that is coming those handicaps 0f the season will puss, and the shipping will be called upon to malt-u its passage zigaiust a greater and more di- vcrsificd zittzick at the moment when the calls 0n it arc stczirlily reaching a maximum. Now that shipping losses" are no longer published periodi- cally, w»: shall not know the effect; but we can niakv the certain assumption that bad days lie ahead.

More than cvcr before seems now to hang upon the implcuicntiug of the CZNIllIlZIIICLI dc- cisions" ; and we czui at least l'ClllL‘llllICt' that these were no inure ClllOliOillll rczictioiis to the strain of the war, but carefully framed plans based tipoii the best technical atlvice available. The main daugcr that confronts the Allies is of over- estimating the power of Russia to continue her great offensive, and underratiug the efforts ivhich, throughout Europe, fjcrmany is at pre- sent making, to concentrate a great new force for a final attempt to defeat Russia. If the Allies’ plans are punciually and resolutely car- ried out they should make a fresh German ir- ruptiou into the heart of Russia impossible. It is this that the ncxt one hundred days must dc- tcrmine; and the future development of lfuropc will lie determiner! by them.

olsulfa.

for that mouth.

at that time.

The Victory Loan 1f1°“'

At no time in the history of this war has the outlook been brighter than it is now for civilians who indccd play as big a part—-—0ii the home fr0ut—as the service iucn do, no time was the prospect cvcr grimmcr for the soldier, sailor, or airmen on the fighting fronts of the world. Their sacrifice may hc their all lll the gr?‘ battle that lies ahead. Uur sacrifice-in terms of money 0nly—is iiidccd no sacrifice at all, for it is money loaned [Cltlpuftiflly only, not given tip, which will be returned with intcrrst. lf this Loan, and all War Loans. \\'<‘rc sccn in its proper pcrspcctivc, it could only b;- rvgardcil as the safest and the saucst method 0f saving for the future cvcr dc- vised. Tim niurh stress is being laid on the fact that the expenditure of this money is a “dona- tioii" to the (joveriitiicut to pay for the war. lligh as taxes arc today, they lVOlllfl be far high- cr if it wcrc not for the Victory Loans, for the tiioiicy must he obtziiiictl sonichmv, and it should be far bcltcr to face the future with the prospect

sketch book,

“General Service."

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The Department of Defence is calling upon all active service men discharged prior to I942 to zipply for their discharge badge. It says several thousand mcn who left the service before Febru- flf)’. I942, when the war service badge was first issued, cannot be located. of sticli former soldiers are asked t0 communi- cate infortuatioii of this award to them. lapel badge, iii the form of a shield surmounted b_v a crown. contains three red maple leaves on a silver background and bears the inscription L On the reverse side is in- scribed a. serial number to aid in identification

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now preserved

A new cure for common cold has been re- ported by the American Chemical Society. Tho remedy, a new sulfanilaniide drug, is called vas- lt is a nasal spray. Hamilton of the Lockheed Aircraft Company California, who reported it, said that wlieu g cold starts, the spray frequently stops it. It Ap- pears that if the cold is due to virus infections,

the new remedy is not effective.

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The Labor Department reports that figures it had compiled show that 47,168 persons were, on direct relief throughout Canada. last Decem- ber. The compilation ivas based on figures 0b- tanied from the provinces and municipalities. labor Department officials expressed the opin- ion that the relief load for December represent- ed zibout the lllllllllltllll which could be expected I .\t the peak of direct relief in .\P\'Il, 1933, figures report to the department showed at least 1,517,000 were on direct relief

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Relatives and friends

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Samuel Finley Bruce Morse, American artist and inventor, died this (late 1872; studied an in London; professor of design in University 0f New York; while returning from Europe in 121532 on board the Sally, he conceived the idea 0t a recording magnetic telegraph, and in a little I _ in the National Alusctim at Washington, he worked out a sys- tcm of dots and (lashes to represent numerals, and later to represent the letters of the alphabet (the Morse alphabet); the plan 0f a telegraph ivas- also represented in this book but it was not llll I344 that the first public message was sent between \\"ashington and

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The announcement in London by Lord South- wood (chairman) that the Red Cross Penny-a- Wcck Fund has now raised $25,000,000 in ])(‘i1l1lf‘S for the Red Cross and St. john has given great satisfaction to all who contribute t0 the fund or who help as honorary collectors.

Baltimore. 4i >1-

Dr. Henry R

The

The

01115! three. The association spokes- man was quite soothing about, the

0f having some of thc inririiy being spent on the war returned in the fora-e u,‘ llonds, instead of having it all smillinrrd up by taxes, with tunic

0f it returnable.

TAnd Now It's Eggs

Ctuiailizitis arc crating s0 many eggs this year that our contract to supply Britain with egg powder is threatened. The authorities are not asking Czuizitlians to cat fewer eggs, not yct ‘it any rate, but they are a little worried and ltavc issued another call to farmers for greater pro- duction. The huge goal set at the beginning of the year. 345 million dozen, 26 per cent greater than in i942, is already not enough.

Domestic ilcnianil for eggs, says an exchange, has incrcziscd bnvnnd all expectations. 'l'lie meat shortage early in the year no doubt accounted for part of this". but increased buying power of the average honsi-liolzl is the itnderlying causc. Buying fur zirinv camps is another big factor- ill stunt‘ ramps" the nuiount is as high as :1 dozen and a half rugs p11‘ man each week. With meat rationing (‘rattling shortly, eggs will be in cveu

l'cnny-:i--\Vcck Fund has now been in existence for just over three years, and its history during that time has been one of astonishing progress, At the end of the first year the total amount crillCClCd was $2,000,000. A year later it had gone to $5,600,000. By the end of last year it had reached $21,710,000. ia- w e a

If Canada is to progress and prosper after the war, she must regain and fructify licr peace- tniic position as a prc-emineiit trading nation. 'l‘hi.<, of course, depends partly on development of natural resources, efficiency of production, and finding of world markets. But it also de- litjllflls vitally on a system of transportation, both within our borders and connecting with other countries. \Ve will not be able to get along Wllll0lll ‘railways, automotive transport and qertin shipping. But the key to our future will he ‘Ill the air. What wc will have in the way of swift air transport of people, mail, and freight (\Vllf‘llll‘l' express or bulk) will spell the differ- cnce hctwceu ivhctlier we will be a primary or a SPCfilHl rate nation. lleuce the importance of

Till-I cuaittoiwizrovvu GUARQlAhL

llotesiBy The Way

gOIIIB to start gardening for the is: time Ln their lives. Most of them will tie-filled with enthusiasm. um merely because their work will be a. contribution w the war wort. which it will be on a lame scale, but. because they will have discov- ered 011g of the real pleasures of life. For gardening is a pleasure. a maker of happiness anc contentment and a developer of the philosophical attitude of mind. -Regina Leader- Poet

The people of the Dominion may count themselves lucky that the Canadian tanner as s. clzis i5 proud o! hi5 place in the forefront of practical patriotism. He and his wife and children wul work early and late to make up as much as they can for the shortage in manpower. This fine spirit Ls nowhere more ap- preciated than among army officials, and we may feel certain that they will do everything ln their power to make as much help as possible avail- able to faimers 1n the rush seasons lot seedtlnies and harvest. -Wlnni- peg Tribune.

Canada‘: navy joins with ours and Britain's in the concerted attack on U-boots, Says The New York Times. ,At the outbreak of the war our peaceful neighbor on the north liar; only fifteen naval vessels- in oper- ation. Now she has more than 500, _mostly of the destroyer-corvette- ,subchaser sorts, these heloing lflllglllllV in Atlantic convey wick 1811i j inliig with u; iu guarding the Alevtiaus. ’lhe Catiauian FIJLI- liielfs Reserve, tnade up of‘ sturdy fishing boats. patrols the 5.500 miles of the Doniinioifs bay-indented West Coast, and Canacian cruisers waylay enemy sneak radiers as far away as the Indian Ocean.

The well-known song says "Till the sands 0f the desert grow cold . . . "as if they never grow cold. which ls correct. for they grow cold every night, observes The Bombay Standard. It. is not unusual to finc thin ice formed on any water ex- posed overnight; in winter. Sentries dread the coldness of night 11s much B-s they detest the burning heat of the ray, But there ls one rzriivirl compensation. If you sink a bottle of biaer a toot or two beforc ‘Mum- ing in" you can be assured, when you dig 1t out next. afternoon, bf a nice bottle of stone-cold beer just off the Ice, as It were.

This ls the season for maple syrup on pancakes- 1f you get. the syrup. So fin". we have seen very little 5Y1“? on the market. A5 a mutter of fact, sugarbush owners in this district. who did find time to tap a few trees report that there was a very poor run of sap. There is a 09111118 Drlce on maple syrup, $2.75 per gallon. We mereiv mention this fact for the benefit of one man who was asking $5 per gallon for the product last week, due to its scar- cit-y. -W1nchester Press,

It ls worth remarking that two of the United States sntpyaids now achieving miracles of production were built with British funds, The British Meichant shipbuilding M15- eion went; to the United States in 1940 and being unable to flud factli- ties for the rapid building of such 5111135. 5616¢18d and purchased sites for new yards at. RlClIUIOIIEl, cu, and Portland. Ore. Two new com- panics were formed to build virus and Ships tin-cl one of them 1151c, for its president Hcnrv Kaiser. who nn- til 1-1131 Mme had never built a. ship. -Brockville Recorder and Times

B9111" 15 1PY1IIB‘ desperately to soft- en up ‘British and American opinion by reviving the old scare or Bol- shevism. Conversely there l5 the propaganda which says that. Moscow will make a deal with Berlin. Those who went to play Hitler's game can have it either way _t1~im, Russia will sweep over Germany or that she will not sweep over Germany. Those who know most about Russia do not believe she has either the putt, se or the strength to Conimuniza Eur- fme. There is sound experience _. especially in the final alignment in this war -or believing that Rus- 51fls geographical position 11nd the feeling of her people ugiiuist Ger- mlmy and Japan will continue to "like he!‘ a mighty counterweight to both ends of the Axis-Christian Science Monitor.

It lakes 43 million dozen pairs of’ hOHe t0 cover the legs of American women in, a nomuil year, notes The Toronto Telegram. But last year the War Production Board released only eXIOI-Igh fflyon varn to make 25 mil- 11°11 51114111 Dairs. And there's no $11k or rayon yarn left. Nor is there enough cotton yarn, fine enough for the hosiery machine. This is the in- formation forthcoming from the Southern Hosiery Manufacturers As. sociation. It is accompanied by one glimmer of good fortune -tlie m. lief that there will be no increase in prices. But. instead of anywhere from 15 to 25 different shades to choose from. there probably will be

mended run era just ahead. 11¢ thinks the ladies won't. have to stand P18e0n-t0ed to hide a mended run from the gentlemen. He really think; the gentlemen soon will come to look °11 1119111186 rims as service stripes. T119 Droducption of men‘s hose has sky-rocketed because of army rind navy needs. The soldier wears but 111111‘ 1111198 H5 mflny Dalrs of hose as civilian.

The urea formerly known as Turks-stun. bordering on India in- eludes the Kazakh. Turkmen, ukbtit, 713111111 911d Mlrghiz Soviet repub- lics Newsweek relates. A bare de. ""18 B80 this was a country of slmd and illiterate nomads. Today it. i5 blanketed with mulberry trees 1°!‘ 811k Cocoon, sutrar beets and rlce 119165. l-eXlJle and silk mills, coal “"1 19511 11111105. copper smelters and tremendous power plants. It, pm. duces _oll. salt, tron. tungsten and molybdenum. To irrigate its arid. if fertile 5011. thousands of workers had dus the immense Northern Task- 119111. Bokh - Shakhlmardnn and Gimr canals and the Kathi-Kur- Blfl PESQYVOU‘. which together wrest- Bd 1,250,000 acres of fields from the nines Recently ground was broken for a hydro-electric irrigation pro- Ject on the sYT-DBIYR. River. destin- 94 10 have the second largest output In Russia Probably the moat im- WWII-t Droduct of this legion is cotton and kok-sagyz, a. rubber yield- ing dandelion. Of Russia's pre-war 70 per cent were produced here, Kflk-saxyz in an "evaeuee" from the Ukraine and White Russia, although

P1"'\'1‘11"l.' find tnaintiiiuiiig all three airports now operated licrc for military and other transit,

and curious workers in Kazakhstan.

A lot of perlolu table liifllll l",

PUBLIC FORUM

._l|ow Volume 0f Children's Verse

“Catlin: All Children" is the title of an entertaining new book o! a verse. The autnor. L011

TRANPOBTATION, ETC-

livered by Mr. J. O. I-Iyn

town a short time ago._ To my mind this speech contains more than the usual amount o! food for thought. It is of course conceded by all

of winning the war. The end 0f the war may be long delay“! 0|‘ 11? may come suddenly as 1t. did 111 191a. Those who have read the history of that event know that the Allies were so unprepared for the cessation of hostilities on that occasion that they did not even have plans made for the demobili- zation of the troops. so bad was thesltuatlon, int-his regard. 1118-9111 some instances it led to riots. This should not. happen again. Not. only should demobilization plans be well thought out, but the question of what we are 801118 1° do with and for the returned men should not be left till the lost mLn- ute.

Transportation to and from the mainland has always been our greatest problem, and no doubt has done much to retard progress and development ln this Province.

The terms of Confederation are very specific regarding this ques- tion. but it seems that the Federal Government has always very grudgingly carried out. their part of the bargain.

The war notwithstanding, this appears to be especially true at; the present time, not in transportation alorl. but other things as well. The money lost by the striking of the S.S. Charlottetown. would have given us an up to date dry dock, and have provided the port. facili- ties so necessary if We are to ex- perience the upsurge in business so long overdue.