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“The Strongest Memory i: Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

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This

Noteworthy Date

This l: the birtlidate, or name date, of tlirflfl great historic personages, viz., Saint Affdlelll. Julllllllllllll Sivifi the cynical author of _C.iith- ver's 'l‘riivcls", and Prime 3111115161‘ \V"’»5i°l1 Churchill, all men of vision and aggressive, _a5- sertive characters ivlio have made lasting un- prcssions not only on those of their own coiiii- try, day and generation, but on mankind in general.

Saint .\.ll(ll't'\\'I _

“And Jesus ivalking by the Sea of Galilee saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting their nets into the sea: tor they were fishers. .i\nd He saith unto tl-eiil. ‘I70lloii' .\lc, and I will make you fishers of men." And they straightway left their nets, and followed Hiiii. _

“And as l-le sat upon the Mount of Olives, over against the Temple, Andrew asked H111 privatelv: “'l‘cll us, ivheii all these things shall be fulfilled?"

Andrew first fiiidetli his brother Simon. and saith unto him, “we have found the lllesiih‘. which is, being interpreted, the Christ.”

Andrew said, “'l'liere is a lad here which hath five barlev loaves and two small fishes, but what are they among so many ?".

Swift:

"How strange a paradox is true.

That men who lived and died ivithout anarrie,

Are the chief heroes in the sacred lists of

fanic.

“If a nian had the art of second sight. 35 the)’ have in Scotland for seeing spirits, lioiv admir- ably he might entertain himself in this toivn by observing the different shapes, sizes and colours of those swarms of lies which buzz about the heads of some people."

"And when with grief you sec your brother

stray,

Or in a night of error lose‘his way

Direct his steps, afford your kindest aid,

And gently pity whom ye can't persuade;

Leave to avenging Heaven his stubborn will,

For, O remember he's your brother still."

Churchill:

“I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is ncglflclrd. and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being iriade, we shall prove Ourselves 01'“? again able to defend our island home, to ride out the storm of ivar, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. At any rate that is what we are going to try to do...

‘WV: shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in ilic air, ire shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. and even if, ivliicli I do not for a niomen: believe, this island or a large part of it, were subjugatcd and starving then our Empire beyond the seas. zirnicd and guarded by the Bri- tish Fleet, ivonlil carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, lllC,JlC\\' world with ail its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old...

“But if we fail, then the ivliole world, in:lud- ing the United States, including all that we have l,'iiu\\‘lt and cared for. will sink into the abyss of a new Dark .\,<_;e made more sinister and perhaps more protracted, l)\' the lights of pervetcd sci- ence. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its CUllllTlDlHYCEtllll last for a thou- szuiil rears, l1lt‘|l will say ‘this “n15 their fIitCSt lioiirfi" _

.\ trinitv ivortby of all honour, praise, remem- brane" zipart altogether front their respective niches ii lllC countries of their origin or adoption.

Serious Bacon Situation

()\\‘lllQ' in almost incredible bungling at Ot- tni 'i_ inar lllblllifs. who have been urged 10 raisc liitirc and more litigs as a war effort, now find it practical}; impossible to do so without loss. .\s a rcstilt, there is widespread dissatis- faction. The trouble seems to have stemmed from the new revised British bacon contract. which I‘('¢lllt‘(‘4l <inr ennniiitnients for shipments of bacon to llritain iii i944 from 675000.000 pounds, the present settle, to 450.000.0061 P01111115-

Qrcat Britain is understood to have. made strong representations to Canada, pointing out that this proposed TCdUCllOIIWVlll seriously jeo- pardize her lIZlCUll ration programme. hlean- while, for every ioohogs that were sold for dom- estic use in Canada prior to the 3rd of Octo- ber, tliere arc now between 25o and 275 going into the domestic market. It is reported that in the iveeks since the new deal was announced and for ivliicli figures are available, hogs inov- ing into domestic use in Canada have jumped well over the 90,000 mark per week.

Looked zit another way, Canada prior to the new bacon contract was channeling about one 1mg out of three iiiio domestic use and car- marking the other two for priority users or ¢x,,o,-i_ Ibday 5o per cent or one out of iivn hogs is going into the domestic market.

This has precipitated a crisis ivhicli may be traced ilirectli- to government ineptitude. 'l'here is a shortage of feed in Eastern Canada and the rise in ilii- prices of Western grains. eti- gineerctl allegedly by the Federal ‘Minister of Agriculitire to recover for the Liberal party the gnodii-ill of ilic Prairie grain-growers, hits

eminent French-speaking Canadian, several or- dinary French-Canadian family names are of Jewish root, and the bronze plaque in Quebec of Frontenac is really the head of a Protestant minister who died the same year as the noted French governor, Mr. Charles Holmes, secre- tary of the National Council of the Association of Master Printers, declared in an address in

Henri-Charles Cotineau, Mr. Holmes, nudent of history and author of widely-read work: on the relations between the two principal ethnical groups in Canada, stated, giving Pierre George Roy, retired archivist, as his authority.

ada was named Froncois-Jacques Catineau dit Champlaurie, the audience was told. His son, born at Lachenaie and baptised at Pointe-aux- Trembles, received the name of Jean-Baptiste Coiitineau dit Chaniplaurie.

had disappeared with his Laiirier.

ieiitimi, designate him with the Christian names

ed to reduce price: of the finished product. The result is that across Canada there is a tremend- ous slaughter of brood sows by farmer: whom the Government's policy is driving out of 110,2 production. Unless this slaughter is checked.

to ship to Britain next year even the reduced quota of 45o million pounds.

The Globe and Mail predicts that unless this situation is cleared up there will be serious con- sequences. Before the war we had great dif- ficulty in wresting from very formidable com- petitors, the Danes, a share of the British mar- ket for bacon. When peace comes, the Danes. anxious to rcbiilid their shattered agricultural economy, will be eager to recapture the Bri- tish market for bacon. But by our contribu- tions of food during the war we have built up :i. strong moral claim upon Britain to be given special consideration in connection with her re- quirements of bacon. If, however, we let Bri- tain clown on food supplies in the closing stages of the war, that moral claim and sense of obliga- tion will be wiped out. Instead they are liable to be replaced by a feeling of grievance, and after the ivar we may find ourselves, with a scale of hog production greatly increased since the pre-war period, compelled to fight hard for a share of the British market for bacon instead of securing comparatively easy access to it.

— EDITORIAL NOTES ...

Now Ottawa quid‘ nuncs predict the Federal election will be held in June. 1K 1F 101 1i

Only half the prc-ivar quantity of matches is produced in Great Britain, and they usually go

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Donald Gordon relented and gave PCDIIlSSlOYl to his fellow Scotsinen to indulge in Haggis tn- night, though it be meatless Tuesday.

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Only Q-carat “utility" wedding rings are made in Great Britain, now and at present the supp'y does not equal the demand, though half a million are promised in the next twelve months

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As service men, pass holders, etc. are request- ed not to travel by rail between December 20th ind January 5, one wonders who will be left to take advantage of the railway service.

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Unless the authorities find it possible to relax the kerosene priority to allow permits to be is- siicd for stable and byre lanterns in Great Bri- tain, niilkiiiaids will have to milk rows iii ilic dark this winter.

1k 1ft Which is right? While certain educational authorities in Canada are insisting on the adop- tion of co-education, Soviet Russia, after 25 years’ trial, has reverted to separate schools and colleges for the sexes, except in the infant de- partment. And they give very coitvincing rea- sons for their changed policy.

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Hope has been lieltl in some quarters that be- fore the end of ilic year the rationing of tea and coffee would be abolished but inquiries in- dicate that officials are not quite so hopeful. It . - . . llflS‘ been pointed out that it would be ealamitoiis politically to do 2l\\'{l_\' with the rationing of these beverages and tlicii (lisctircr later that the stipply situation demands a restoration of some limita- tion on domestic consumption. 8i I‘

“Unsatisfactory” students, both nien and ivomeii, will be wcedcd out at .\lcGill University at the end 0t the first term. according" to a no- [ICC posted by U1‘. Cyrus llacllillaii, dean of arts and science. “Unsatisfactory students” were defined as those ivliose work for the first tcriii was grzidetl “tinsatisfaetory” in more than two courses.

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Emphasizing the importance of their train- ing in seanianship. .~\:tniir:i.l Sir Percy Noble, K.C.li., head of the llritisli Admiralty at Wash- ington, toltl the Montreal Sta Cadets that in the midst of “ilic greatest war that ever has hap- pened in the world we have come to realize that what we need now is men-real men-and sea training is ilic finest way of getting real tneii." There was “no nonsense" about the sea, lic pointed out. “It's pretty hard...aiid it's jolly good. You've always got to achieve something. You're always trying to iviii whether it's a, battle against the elements or against the enemy. But, wlictlier or not you eventually go to sea." lie contiiitictl, “you'll iicvcr regret this training, for, whether you knoiv it or not, you are all ac- quiring a personality. Some say personality is something you're born with. Don't believe it. Personality can be acquired. You can learn to know lioiv to make ilic best of yourself. 'l'hat's ilic purpose of this training." I 1i i I

Wilfrid Lauricr was not the ral mine of the

Montreal recently. Sir Wilfrid's real name was

The. first of Sir Wilfrid's ancestors to come to Can-

Sir Wilfrid was of the fifth generation and the name Cotineau father, Carolus All documents dealing with Sir Wil- frid, Mr. Holmes said in developing his non-

of IIenri-Charles-V/ilfriil, and it seems that it was only after his university days at lvfeGlll that he became lVilfrid. In his marriage contract, he is referred to as Ilenri-Chzirlci-“ilfrlll

it is highly improbable that Canada will be able

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llavo yoatnoliloe: slut now that. you can’ n a on olb lllh ply llf tn hone: and ‘sav- of bop: thll ln the bln seem: shrink with nlumlnz swlftneu. despite all effort; w be economlcaL-Ottawn Cblzen.

8on0 Idea of how- qulokly the chimp-over from war to pence- tlme production: may be loco bllahed l: seen tn the statement of General Motors that. rtxty days from the end of the war. the Dro- ductlon of automobiles will be un- d" Wily. —Nla¢ar: Falls Review.

Agirn, tn Slolly, ‘near which a

l cemetery for Canadian soldiers ls being established. was formerly known as San Filippa dam-giro. and was ln anclenttlmes

slrable ln a. fashion magazine to

E’I‘_()WN__ GUARDIAN ; The Paper We Waste

(Ottawa Journal) Edward Weeks, editor-go! the Atlantic ma: t» the United States

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m to be u. lubject close to our Mart these days and we like thO way Mr. Weeks puts lt:

"1 had come from a count-r! when no newspaper l4 thrown :- way. It l: passed from W801i to person ln the railway conch. nup- ped urns: the aisle of l bus. nnd when the owner 1.5 through with ti, dropped into a. container‘ for the armed forces.

"When I bought. myself a bat at Dunn's, 1 paid for it and than stood wai expectantly. After a pause tbs cork handed the new bonnet across the counter. "There you are, slr," he said. ‘Of coum vro have no wrapplnz.‘

"Bur over here, despite restric- tions paper l: atlll somathlnl that. anyone can w around. Per- haps it la important to spend :0 much of our wood pulp in the colored oomlcs. perhaps ti, is de-

called Agyrlonpaft-er Auyrtu. the tyrant. who ruled it about four centuries before the Christian era. The whole area ls rich 1n lila- torlc traditions. -—Toroni.o Shir. To flnd I. euro for frost-bitten airmen. a doctor in the British em- ergency medical service froze his fingers solid by dlpplnz them into quld alr, my; the m

He then thaw

lure and found that. no damage had been done to them. Since then he has invented an apparatus for cooltriit frost-bitten limbs while t kecplniz the rest of the patient warm. It lii like n refrlgerator, with alrtlizht entrances for arms and legs. —Exchange.

A lot of us-‘brave souls have borne unfllnchlngly such war-born

work. But now the war really be-

75' f"

The Underwear takes a very dismal vlew of the

have been lured to other, more ° mtlttary-thrilllng jobs, and the scanty outlook ls even scantier Well, don't just stand there shivering! Do somethlng._ Cal- gary Albertan. ‘

Farmers. lay many old maxim-l. long ago teamed patience before the elemental facts which no man can alter. In times like these the