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moi-bro; our,‘ (Founded In 1m) Alttlorlled as Second Clan mil rm Olfleo Department. Ottawa

ashram: um. Col. w. Cheater s. mun VIoe-Pruldent: J. B. Barnett, IJ-I.

Iecretary: lieut Col. D. A. MaoKlnnan._D.8.0.

lllttor and Managing Dlreotor: l I. Burnett. IJJ. Aloolote Editors: Frank Walker and Ian A. Burnett

The Gnardlan may be obtained at: Huh Tobacco Shop, Monelon. N. I» The New: Shop, blonoton, N. B. George McLean, Proton N. S.

Walker’: White 890t- ll Salter Si». llnllfnx, N-S. Iletropolltan News Agency, 1MB Peel St... Montreal. United Cigar Stores, Chateau Laarler, Ottawa Ont.

B. Altken. Lord Elgln’; Hotel. Ottawa. Ont. J. Fine. R54 Bay Sh, Toronto. Ont. Wolfeis News Stand, Sndbury. Ont. Old South News. Cor. tvlllk and Washington Sta,

Boston llotallng‘; News Agency, Times Bnllding, New York.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink." .

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY Z0, I916

Threat To Dairy Industry

0n tho Mr‘ of thr; annual nrccting 0f 0U! llaitjvrncrr‘. Association the-rm appears an edi- torial in 1r Torr-filo paper’ rrvgiiig removal of the ban on rntrrgtirinc. The cmrpraint is that the ban, which “'11s itpplirtl (lffllllkf the manufac- lurc and salt- or olcrrrnrrrgzrriric shortly after the (‘nil oi tlrc First lit-rut \\':rr. "gives thc butter producers of this country ar. absolute monopoly, and monopolics are hard ‘o lustifv under any circumstances." Corning from Toronto, home of the “big intcrcsts" who have been fattening on tariffs and monopolies since Confederation, this is good indccd!

Our farmers know what margarine com- petition means to the dairy industry, and they would be well advised to be ‘on the alert against propaganda of this kind.

It is being argued that the consumer would benefit. Surely not in this Province, at the expense of Illa; Island's barn-er industry!

But apart from our dairy farmers’ inter- ests, would it be practicable to seek to suDDlv merit the prcscnr limited butter ration with mar- garine? The answer is no. The world supply of oils and fats. from which margarine is nradc, is still nndcr- control and limited in quantity. Canada already gets a share and it reaches the public in the fonn of shortening, scarce here but still more so in Britain. Any further sup- ply Canada might receive would be at the ex- pcnse of Britain or other countries. It is ex- tremely rmlikclv we would be given more from the common pool, considering all circumstances. The total of all fats, butter and shortening, now received by Canadians is tn excess of that re- ceived by the people of any other country and it is unlikely the Combined Food Boards would listen with favor to any appeal for a larger share from this country. Little oil suitable for margarine is produced in Canada; it woulcbhave to be imported.

A Good Suggestion

Apropos Boy Scout and Girl Guide Week, lie Ottawa Journal remarks:

“In Canada 170,000 represent a lot of boys and girls, but by no means all who would liké

' t0 join if there were leaders to undertake the

work. It might be u. good thing if the Gov- emmmt considered this fact when formulating plans for future health and youth training; here are two sound, well established organizations which have already proren their ability to train young people in the responsibilities of citizen- ship. The Government docs help to the extent of making a small grant to the boys and a still smaller one to the girls, but this smooth-run- ning, competcnt organization deserves more than half-hearted measures. The Scout and Guide Movement Inighf well be the basis for much of the youth training to be undertaken in behalf of Canada's future."

Why Britain

Needs Money

detailed outline of the reasons behind Britain's need for Canadian dollars has been presented by the British nugotiators who are at Present in Ottawa to ncgurzate a Canadian loan.

_ 'I‘lie British group madc- clear that it was Britain's inmierliatc financial difficulty which forced her fu seek dollar loans in both the United States and Canada. This difficulty, in brief, is an accumulated current liability of $5.5 billions for 1946 with an annual incoms of Only I15 billions to meet it. and an accumulated ex- ternal debt of $19 billions. (All figures in U. S. dollars). "

There was no statement on the extcnt of the loan bu: thr- conference indicated that it will be approximately the difference between the

‘proposed U. S. loan of $3.75 billions and the current British liability of $5.5 billions, spread over a three-rear pcriorl.

Before the war. Ilritawn. a tuition with no great natural resources except coal, deperfded on imports for raw nratermls and two-thirds of

. her food. Shc paid for them with manufactured exports, income from foreign investments and the income from a ltrrgc and efficient shipping industry.

The war cut the nlerchantile marine in _llllf and”: forced the liquidation of overseas in- vestment to lr-ss than 5o per cent of the pre- war total. ' Investments from this source now amount to ufllv $400 millions a year while the nlercllont nrarir-e- has only been rebuilt to two- third: of the pre-‘tvar figure.

The British problem may thus be synop- llzed:-

Raw ‘material stocks are r-in down within the nation.

Practically no income will be available for

the next fcw years bxccp: bv hrrildinlt up ex-

require “accommodation

Internally, some four million homes were destroyed or damflltd in the blitz. This drain on labor is severe.

Damage by the blitz to industrial plants is augmented by inability during the war to keep maintenance at normal and provide for obsolescence. The totalldeficit on that account Ilclng some $2.5 billions which has to be met to resume normal manufacturgpf exports.

British, people have cut their own living expenditure by 16 per cent as compared to x938.

To help maintain peace it is estimated Britain must expend some $1.2 billions.

The r945 deficit on current account will be approximately threebillrons which has to be met in cash. Ir is hoped in 1947 and r 8 to r_e- duce this deficit to possibly another 2.5 bil- IiOns added to the $3 billions r946 deficit.

It is ltc-pcd to have the volume 0f British exports in lost‘ back to about 55 per cent 0f their pre-rvar level. But exports will have to attain to more than fiftyper cent of their pre- war volurrre to meet Britain's cash and debt obligations.

The confr-rcnce was told of some of the fundamental difficulties which had arisen as a. rcstrlt of Britain's gigantic war effort, difficul- ties which are corollary to her prcscnt financial cash problem. _

In I938, there were inst under 2o million persons enrplcrvcd in Britain. In mid-1944, this total had been boostcd to 2L5 millions, including the armed forces, 750.000 old age pensioners put back to work, all married women with one chrld under I4 and the entire girlhood of the iration. In r938 1,600,000 wcre in the armed forces; in r945 5,200,000 In r938 1.400.- 000 were Cmvloycd in direct war industry; in r945, 4,000,000. In r938, exports totalled $1,300,- ooo,ooo; in r945 $400,000,000.

i-EDITORIAL NOTES-

Tlre back-bone of the province is centred "l l-hfi fill)’ these days ‘pf ‘farmers’ gatherings. I‘

Great Ilritaitfs Socialist Government is planning a. big victory celebration for Iune 8. but “without plentiful supply of food, clothing and beer." Some celebration, surely!

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_Now there is a black-market in illegal liq- uor in Toronto, involving 94 arrests. The new P0561‘- fclzinrc there seems to believe in keeping the force on their ‘m: as’ will as their feet.

The Federation of Agriculture by absorb- ing different organizations within its member- ship, has succeeded in cutting down the meet- ing days in Farmers’ Week from 5 to 3.

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The Auditor-General’: report shows how very, very inadequate is our share of Fcderal expenditure compared with our contribution in men and money for the maintenance of the Dominion.

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One of’ the reasons why newspaper adver- tising does such a good year-found selling job 1s that just about as many people buy and read daily newspapers in summer as in winter.

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“Some "-5 ism arm. when 1 was editing the Times (writes Mr. Wickham Steed), a high official at Buckingham Palace asked me to recommend somebody who could help to draft the nressagcs which King George V was often asked to send to various parts uf the Common- wealth and Empire. - . . I recrmmended two of the ablcst writers I knew. . . . A month or two later these men came t0 mc and said: “It's no good writing draft messages for the King. We have done our best but he always turns them into something so much better that we feel ashamed. YOu see, the King knows the job and we dflrftf;

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_ Chaflfi V. Holy Roman Emperor and Kmgof Spain, bOrn this date r500; on the death of his grandfather, the Emperor Mud. mrlnm in r519 he was elecqd Emperor of G". many, the rival candidate being Francis I of France. By virtue of his great DOSKSSl-u: Charles became the most influential political figure of his time, and thus began the rivalry between himself and Frances I which domin- ated the history of Western Europe during the next quarter of a century, after the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, owing to failing health, Charles abdicated in favour of his son Philip (1556) and retired to the monastery of San Juste‘, in Estrcmandura. . . “The iron hand in the velvet glovc." . . . “Fortune lrath- some- what the nature of a woman; if it be too much wooed, she l. tne farther off."

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A crown said to have been worn by the Kaiser and I5 snuff-boxes which belonged to Frederick the Great were found by officers of the British Control Commission in Germany. They wefe bricked up in the crypt of a coun- try church near Minden, in north-west Germany, where they had been hidden during the war by an agent of the Hohcrrzollern family. Prince Oskar, son of the late Kaiser, was brought from his home at Holzminden to reveal the hiding place. The crown, according to him, is that of the Kings of Prussia and was retained by the Hohenzollems when they became German Emp- erors.

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Pent-up wants at. home and abroad are It an all-time high and so large It is unlikely they can be met in one year. lays Mr. Harvey E. Runner, business news editor 6f the New York Harald Tribune. Therefore, r946 can be the first of several goodbuslness. years. This is the favourable side- of today's economic out- look, on the unfavourable side. labour-manage- ment difficulties 100m large, and if is obvious that no real Drillers toward re-estnblishment of business on l sound basis can betmade‘ until labour probIMns are settled High production It fair wages for labour and fair profits for man-

agemcnt is the only formula to maintain n free economy. '

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Notes By The Way

N allrnlnnl nude In Ina"- lpndozivelghs onIyQIi-p pounds. car- r e; o

ur rumours, get: 10 mtlec to thl rllloo and roe: on mllel an hour. And. presumably, GIIVEI right around lteel ltrlkel. -WInd- sor Star. ~

. France dose not nee- Oo be rln-y mero lettled politically than It was before the war, and what happen- ed to It then wu In considerable manure due to ltl lltlcal Insta- blllty, -Brockvllle _ eondgr and ‘I'm-res.

Insurance eaTerfl lnvqu u"; 100 recent burg nrleg found tfit In only one Instance wu o doq kept on the premllel. Al probably one In every fIve orxmlx households

assesses a don, the flgures strik- ngly demonstrate the value of a canine burglar alarm. -Lelter to Edinburgh Scotsman.

And people In thll rural arr-ea wIll foe some sympathy for the farmer up Windsor way who told a neighbor that he hurl mid n plg for elght dollars. "What dId It cost to raise hlm?" asked the neighbor. “Paid three for hlm and five more for‘ feedf-was the reply. "DIdn't make much, dld you?" pe, but I had hi: company all FallF-Brantford Etpofltor.

One of the nattonh {lent cor- poratlons proposes to produce new vorletles of alarm clocks In 1946 that wIlI awaken poop] “gradual- ly and entlcingly." The fden should be put in cold storage‘: uwnlt the next Errof Good Feeling. This year the cltlzenry both pub- Ilc and private. needs alarm clocks whlch clung with a laud, snarl- ing note, Irritating one and all Into leaping from bed Into full days of working and thinking hard. — Chicago Sun.

We knew a man once who was so fund of hls bees that, he kept: them In hls basement all Winter. He kept them warm, He fed them. Yet they stung hlm unmerclfully. He, however, always turned the other cheek—and got It stung. In the end he had to get rld of them; not because he could no longer stand Ihelr stlngs but he got so crippled wlth arthritis that he could no longer take core of them. It ls too had no one told hlm that gettlng stung by bees cured arthrltls because he had had 122th for yeerl. — Wlnnlpeg Free

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The Japanese Winter In not se- vere, but damp and penetrating. There ll ordinarily no, stove In a house other than the brnzler flll- ed with ashes, upon whlch smold- er a few lumps of charcoal. You must hug the fire to keep warm. The Winter uIr rises through the floor upon whlch you sit. The house Is raised on posts and the wlnd howls through beneath you

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"Wh I. h Io rate In a db! wayside?" Aiiir what. could he more beautfful than our awle m! II"- rayed In the pink and wblte loveli- ness of thetr June mwarkenllllf

What not consider the h blossom In the sear-oh for l.

emblem for 9.12.1.9 m‘ s“ m. nuts-rm

I3. E. Island's Eastern Car Ferry .

s d-n Post-Record) 1,, ‘Quit’ edItorIel dlscusstun of bl . gdgrmeriiited an the need of havlflfl the CarIbou-Wood Isl Iacllltles considerably enlerifli be‘ fore the ope of nay at-Ion next, sprlng. Since that artcel a peered this alter has been ab e obtain the fgures showing the vol- ume of the two-way traffic over the Caribou-Wood Islands route Inst, season. These records show 4,505 pggggngexs, 6,485 automobile?! and 1,877 motor trucks were car-rte‘ by the Caribou-Wood Island-s b0! In the seven months of olltfflflo" during 1945. This WES l DIG’ "u"; pontatlon job. and was cafffll talk credltably consldering the Ira-n caps the operatln comptm .-— Nortrhumbcrland Fer es. Limit i" had to encounterto make thprfiser- vice reasonably successful, :6 handicaps are Inadeqdlile u" g capaclty, with only one mdlefil sized boat on the route. thehmd: cultles and Mme-loss In the b t urn; of motur-verfrtcles on a motif open at only one Qnd l" ed m-dlng and lmdln8. crooked an! Insufftctentlv dredged 011911-1165 ° access to the doc n8 Diem 959:1’; Ially 0n the mainland side. d these obstacles could be rwwve readlly or so reduced as to ImPm" the service immensely. The new: dous congestion of boll! Wmegb of the ferry. smlculurv l 1 ends and In midsummer. Emil)!’ oves the value of trhe service z he rugent; need of Its enlargegfilb: Although this ferry ‘g4 L“ .8 “shed, m; Hon, Giarles Im-‘fl ab recommendation. as a belated stalment In the carryi-ll! OI" °1 m“ Domtnlonk rte-Confederation Dlfidit to Prlnce dward Islamduof 31:3; unuous steam common-lea o; m” u... mainland.” tr Igeirggzlgztenvmore it h” u nnythhliigdstern half of Nova Island Itaelf.|

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and filters up Into the room. To kee warm you must either go to ed, loak In n bath, or keepl movln. One cannot stay In bedl or bat all the time. The answer In actlon. I flrmly believe that ‘thls Is the reason for the remark- able activity of the Ja nelc It In far more comfortabe to plow and plant In the muddy fields than to alt In the house. -From Key to Japan, by Willard Price.

It Is dlfflcult for the average cIvIlInn on this lucky continent to realize how short across the Atlantic. Perhaps thts little story from the Northwestern Mll- ler, may help. Some time ago In Ipewlch, En land, Lt. John Hol- bluer, of lwaukee, WIs., wrote hls parents of hls comlng wedding to an Enzllsh girl. Shortly after- wards he received a package from home whlch contained the rIce that had been thrown at hls par- ents’ wedding more than N years ago. They had saved It to be toas- ed at theIr son's nuptials. It. wasn't toned at the young couple when they left the church however but It did appear at; the weddlnrr-ns a r-Ice pudding. Nobody throws away rlce or any other food In England. -Flnunclal Post,

It was the late Chauncey Depew who sald that he took no exrrclse other‘ than acting an poll-bearer for friends who had exercised faith- fully all their Ilves. We w.uId not no to such extremes, but we are gtlll unconvinced of the oys of one form of phyllcal exer on, walk- Ing. When It rains, when rough wlndl blow, when there Is snow and slush underfoot, we want: to stay mugly Indoors. If we have to venture forth, we choose the moot convenient and comfortable form of transportation available. All right, call us lazy. We certain- ly wIll not argue the pnInt, par- tlcularly If we have to walk nny

dlstance to meet you. -—Wlrrdror Star. Uncle Bani oraoked down todn

on manufacturers who have Lullt up large stocks of women's nylon hose and men's shirts whllc- ml- lady and her boy friend go bare- ezzed and threadbare, reapectlve- y. The OIvIIIan Production Admln- mtratlon ,ln a move to force shirts and nylonl on the market. order- ed manufacturers wlth excessive stocks to halt further manufacture of these Items untll stocks have been reduced to oble levell." C. P. closed that u of January 31 one Penna lvanla maker of nylon: had n ltoc of more than 1,760,000 palrl, whll; women stood In nylon queues ull over the country. Another n on manufacturer was found ‘rave $0,606 palrn on hand. Inves- dzators uld two concerns had a tptsl Inventor] of more than 8'10,- M) nhlrt: an an. 31 Including 500.- IIXI made to lell w olesale at. Ieu than t2. Morrll S, Verner, Jr, DI- rector of the 0.‘! A. Compliance Dlvlslon nId he hopes an end to nylon lines Is " ust around the corner." - Wash nlton Denpntch.

llyouhavetoltnnlon Ire street car, don't worry about It. In fact you should conllder yourlelf fortunate. For It wIll give you a flne chance to practice your akllnl.

Paterson, hlmulf a hmlllnr

the Ryln run at fiemblant told an r that aklln calls for rhythm that a crowded

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judge from nae more frequent con&e5%&d°1t1l:1l%l$ It mr..'r.srs.r.rztm...ss.f a. if” roved such a st-Imulus to com- muesrcil-III thszotgroad 8El\$9-'-‘be' i7§ii“1§§liii that. It ls now Benet- my regudea N m essentlal trans-

rtatlon rtnq betwm Qflwsfixf gorovtnces duglnfl h3g2; a ope“ mer, and nu-umnmnhm d! Mlhto November. m! “l! ps a. day. lléld- 5°

(yumcerned. 1B pensive ferries P" Marltlme Provinces.

TThT-IE-armer‘ and His Wife

(Ottawa Journal) rlnted on thls W89 Thurs av a striking letter wit}; signed "A Tired Phmrers Wle. which can be read elther rant-he wife of a tired farmer or trhed M wife of a farther Both, no 01! y

are true. I m which obvlously n w“ “.139 In the heart of a

came from tood about mm woman who Fifi-mars and

all she can take. theIr wives ayfilnslaifighrflshexorsfllrtg-

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11 ' duoement. for younl WWII winks up where the-Ir parent! luv; qff. Meanwhlle the farm

ed to In- pw¢mps¢le' bepfggfilgtlgllfd baseline the world needs food read In the newspapers of strikes _for a 40- hour week. read In the newwlflef! um. the five-day week In on IN way. see learned discussions of the

b st to make of all thIs new lealsurbmewhlch seems all but the

farmer are to enjoy! Inevltably farmers and far-m women eorrhorted dorms the war

and Sllloe n. ended to Increase production, are exhausted. — eme- clally as the farm work lamb’ has fallen u n the who had loo ed towards a lesen- Ing. not an Increase. of their bur- dens Bo It ls that. one can un- derstand n tlrowhr? bItterne-la and confuslon In the arm population. a sense of frustration and be- wlldennent. This Is scmethlng new. and dIl- turblng-dlaturblzr because It Is not In the trrullt on of our farm ple to grumble about thelr un- lot. That tradltton, In frM.

Is qu te the opposite. Prom what- ever land they came the pioneer:

were . hardy men and wo- men. ey came new land nor for an easy IIvInI but

because they an d freedom and Independence and, for thelr chlld- mn. unnrethlng In rhin- Ity than they themselves Jayed. Ihety encountered

conquered dlflcultles and hard- ahl of whlch now we can have I real rmderutazrdlnq. ‘Ilhey worked hard and 1on3, but hard work and horn-e then were eolnnlon ev and they were niaklng themselves homes. bulld- Ing eolnethlng ‘*‘ for the,