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THE CHARLOTTETOWN

GUARDIAN

DECEMBER 21, 1944

TIIE GlllIlJTTEl Usual GUARDIAN

oars on the assumption that the reinforcement issue has been brought to “a definite conclusion" while kinsmen are dying by the hundreds and the reinforcement pool is depleted.

Iorning Daily tlonnled in ill!)

President: Usnt. Col. W. Ohaster 8. ilolnre Vice-President: J. I. Burnett, F. J. I. lsoretary: Liens. Col. D. A. llaclinnon. 0.8.0. liter and Managing Director: J. B. Burnett, IJJ. Aloeiate Editors: Frank Walker and Uent. Ian A. Burnett. LC-N-VJI. 101s Active Bervtcel

"The Strongest Jllemory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.”

wnnuuso risibiilm ___

Canadian Prisoners Of War

For the anxious relatives and friends of Cali- adian prisoners of war, there are generally re- assuring reports from the official representa- tives of protecting neutral powers and froln rc- presentatives of the International Red Cross and the International Y. M. C. A., with ivhom the prisoners are able to talk freely.

"The Allied prisoners of war in Germany are, on the ivhole. wcll and reasonably treated,” ac- Cflfillllg t0 171‘. _lt‘l‘oine Davis, American educa- tor and socologist, who is director for Canada of the \\'ar Prisoners‘ Aid of the Internaticilal Y..\I.C..1\.

"In the treatment of Allied prisoners of war." he says, "the Germans have played the game very closely to the rules agreed upon at the Geneva Convention of 19.19. There was of course the incident of tying the hands of some Canadian prisoners lll zlllegcd retaliation for the tying of Lierinan prisoners of Dieppc, bllt this was an exception."

lle admits that the food and clothing situa- tion is hot too good, btlt states that between the food rations received and the food parcels from the Red Cross andihc quarterly food parct-ls from nextalf-ltin. ‘the prisoners actually arc living bettcr than the German civilian popula- tion."

This, however, must be taken subject to the warning given ill recent months that Red Cross parcel» arririilg at the |)l”lSt)llCl‘-Oi-\\'£ll‘ camps must be made lo do twice as long as formerly", on account of the (lamage to the German traus~ portation system.

In regard to Canadian prisoners of war held by Japan. the lX‘.<f news in recent months was the arrival of a Japanese boat at a Russian port to pick up the accumulated supplies of fond, clothing and medicine. as well as recreational and educational materials, shipped there over a year ago froln America by the Red Cross socie- ties and the \\'ar Prisoners’ Aid of the YM. CA. Preparations are now being made in New York by the War Prisoners‘ Aid for future shipments of recreational, education, cultural supplies.

While japan has not followed the internat- ional agreement on prisoners of war, the Inter- national Y.‘.\'I.C..‘\. states that efforts to estab- lish full war prisoner service to the Far East are continuing, and it is hoped that soon '1.e men there will be as wcll served as those in oth- er parts of the world.

Fuel

Conservation

A report from the Department of Mines uni Resources states that one and one quarter cords of heavy hardwoods such as maple, yellow birch, beech and oak will yield as much heat as one ton of anthracite. A cord of the softer woods such as white birch, soft maple, poplar or basswood produces only 60 to 8o per cent of the heat of the heavier hardwoods. This coili- parison with anthracite applies only to furnace equipment as fireplaces are notoriously inef- ficient. Now if one is in a cordwootl SCCilldl the question arises where to get thc manpower to cut and haul thc cordwood. That is the nub of the matter just as labour at the mines is the important factor ili coal production.

Next to substituting cordwood, if available, advises the Canadian Fuel Conservation SOCl91_v', the best way around the coal shortage is to use less of it. Insulation, Weatherstripping. and calking will help greatly but the use of lower- cost. higher-heat-value soft coal by means of automatic coal stokcrs represents by far tlc greatest step which thc harrassetl home-ow ~ cali take iii reducing coal consumption and heat- ing costs.

Reinforcement Crisis

Remains

Ili a Christmas message to thc 1,400 branches of the Canadian Legion, .\lr. .~\lcx Walker. the Dominion president, congratulates the members on bringing the rcinforcmnent issue to what he calls "a definite conclusion,"

It is to be recalled that on Nov. 29 the Calla- dinn Legion announced its dissatisfaction with the action of thc Dominion Ciovernlnent in plac- ing a limit of 16,000 on the number of draftccs tr he sent overseas as reinforcements: further. that Mr. Walker at that time declared the despatch of 16,000 draftccs was not an “adequ- ate answer to the (lelnantl for conscription azid total war."

Mr. Walker, continents the (ilobe and Mail. was on sound ground when he stated that “any one who still doubts the vital need for reinfroce- rnents has only to 100k at the daily casualty lists and remember that for every name appearing a replacement must be found or an already war- weary soldier must do double duty."

In view of the new German offensive on the Belgian front there is no guarantee that the 16,000 men the (Iiovcrnment proposes to send overseas between now and next May will he sufficient to reinforce thc Canadian Army on the Western front. lllanifestly the German war machine is far from beaten when it can mount l counter-offensive such as we have ivitnessetl in the past few days and throw the United States forces back 23 miles into Belgium.

Common sense would suggest that there is still work for the Canadian Legion to do II1 ensuring that adequate reserves are sent over- seas to replace (‘ilSlllllllCfi and to provide for proper rest periods for ivar-wenry troops. lt is no time for Canadians at home to rcst on their

_ iug the supreme sacrifice, while the third is

It is difficult to forget that the Government reversed its policy and agreed to a piecemeal program of 16,000 reinforcements only when the Prime Minister was confronted with several Cabinet crises of the first magnitude. Unless the pressure of public opinion is maintained there is grave danger that the Prime Minister and the Minister of National Defense, who insists he still believes in the voluntary system, will not bestir themselves to send all the reinforcements necessary to maintain the Canadian Army at efficient fighting strength. The situation on the Western front was never more serious.

EDI IURIAL NUItS

..Tlie Feast of St. john the Evangelist. 1C1 101 15 ll

January thaw came a. little too soon — any- way we had a white Christmas. I 1U 1i‘ 81

A local politician has designated Prime Min- ister King “The Slackers’ Convoy" —— a not n-

appropriate title.

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Had the city footpaths been shovelled, AS they no doubt would have been had Christmas not intervened, walking would not have been so hazardous yesterday.

u x u s- Official statistics reveal that Canadian pi"o— ductiou of cycles uas the lowest last year suzce 1935. Under wartime restrictions to conserve metals and labor, output amounted to only 47,573 compared with 72.130 lll 1942-

n- at w s . .Charles Lamb, the Iinglish essayist, died this date I834; was a civil servant in London, and found plenty time and scope to (lcvclop his .. crary talent, his principal production being "'l he lissays 0f Elia": “lle who hath not a dram of foll_\ in his mixture hath pounds of lnuch worse matter in his composition."

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“Churchill subordinates the world organiza- tion to the interests of the Empire," says L'.~\c- tion Catholique. “King would like to subordin- ate the Commonwealth Association to the oni< versal organization of peace, by making the iii- terests of mankind coincide with those of the Empire. Unfortunately, the logic of this Cana- dian policy has never been followed up right to the entl when essential alid basic questions are a: stake.” ' a s is a

The sudden death of the well-known and ‘highly esteemed Mr. D. B. Macdonald will oc- casion sorrow in hundreds of homes through- out the Province, for he was known from North Cape to East Point. An enthusiastic member of both the Caledonian Club and St. .l\ndreu's Society his fine manly figure in plaid ard bonnet for many, many years was a feature of St. Andrew Night dinners when he proudfv bore aloft, preceded by two pipers, the glorious Haggis. Of three solis, two enlisted, one mak-

head of an essential war plant. >l< 1|‘ 1F it

During the first week of December the aver- age number of Allied offensive sorties flown every 24 hours against the Germans in the \\’es.— crn theatre was approximately: Fighters and fighter bonibers, 1.720; Light and medium bouill- ers, 430; Heavy bombers, 970. It is now more than a year since the German air force dropped bombs in the United Kingdom by daylight (Dc- cember 2, I943). Contrast this with the Bomb- er Command which until August 27, I944, had arried out the offensive against Germany al- most exclusively by night but which since that ‘date (to December 9) has dropped iii Germany by daylight more than 5,600 tons—about 36 per cent of its total effort against the Reich for

that period.

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The biggest Bailey bridge yet built was re- cently thrust across the Chindivin River in Burma. It is 1.006 feet long. The bridge is a vital link in communications and may greatly accelerate the japanesc defeat. Its planning was a noteworthy piece of organization, but the colonel in charge says that one twice as long could easily have been built. l-lc was given no- tice of what was required and worked out l‘is plan in 48 hours; thc only alteration was to sliiit the site 100 yards because Japanese shells were falling vuhere it was orginally intended to build the bridge. The bridges components iverc brought from Calcutta, hauled the last 1300 inLvs by road, assembled in pontoon sections on ill.- Myitha River, and floated a half a mile down~ stream to the site. The truckdrivers who haul- ed the iziaterial were mostly western desert vet- erans. They drcw up the trucks on thc river bank so that their lteadlights could enable thc construction to be carried on after nightfall.

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The duration of the fighting in Europe Wlll be a powerful factor in shaping the course cf political events in Canada. Should the 11th hour attempt of the Germans to delay the drly of settlement be attended with further successes the war in Europe cannot be ended before next midsummer, and that means that the hopes of Canadians at home will have suffered a partial eclipse, and that kind of attitude often orn- duces unexpected political developments. What- ever tlie fortunes of the parties in the next SIX months the people who are backing the war ef- fort must look in vain, says an Ottawa corres- pondent, for any tax relief. Lower 18x95 i119 something that won't come for two 0r thre9 years for heavy bills already incurred have vct lo be paid. and thc fact that important parts. of the munitions production program have to lie continued, even expanded ill 1110 11¢“ 1°11‘ months, must frown upon any who were fnndlv looking to relief from a five ycar burden. Rlo-Iltl and sweat and tears and more heavy taxes “K11 still be the lot of Canadians. We have borne these for a long time. and thcrc has not yrl 11"?"

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nrt aunlty f war. A lt of l A iculture

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war core assess a er.—- ‘ml

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lt has been well said that with-

out casting any reflections on the 391111111 1110 P1981116 101‘ 11001‘

those three unspeakably Presto "lines: Freedom of speech. dom of conscience,

u; relationships were favourable free- 5311511101013? to farmers. and the pm. lng force for parity prl

or The drlv- oes ln the

dence never to exercise either of United States has undoubtedly themP-(The Printed Word.) l?" ‘the problem of Inadequate a arm ncomes and 10w r

, ural llvlng We all depend upon the forest standards.

wherever we are for the natural AS the head of guarantee uf our continued exlst- 01' 58116111111181 ence ns producers and‘ consumers $111111 of the fruits of llte earth.

the U.S. Bureau Economics has “We could argue almost end- In the"198s1y as to what is or ls not a long run, lf we don't conserve ourlsflllsfflcwfy 511111118111 01 111/1112- forests We shall lose more than our l Any final Judgment, however. mus‘. forest industries, so called. We be based upon what the people shall love our llvlngs as farmers 11191115911105 Wlltlli Dr are wllllllg to

and food producers as welL-(Van- accept; and, certainly. the steady couvor Province.) ‘migration from farms to cltles whenever t-he opportunity ls rif-

The report that Goerlng is now fared. the desire of so many of the wearing u toga has led many pzlp-Iflbkl‘ youniz farm people for urban 01-? lll 58y 111st he ls crazy. we flmlllflymcnt. and the attitude of think that the explanation may the muss of the young clty people be found in the old rhyme: toward farm life. all combine to A man down tn the Amnzon indicate that agricultural incomes Put nlghtles of his grnmmas on; 1111a standards of liylnz B19 0n u

tWlndsor Star. the inevitable lag ln the res of production to price changes.» Partly. however, the instability ofl agricultural prices has itself been a cause. tending to discourage the- fanner's attempts t0 adjust his productive prdgram to frequently "bulging prices.

Nevertheless. the price system is the mean: by which the produc- tlon of food ls directed and c11- ordlnated with changing demands at home and abroad. difilcult to see how this could ml done ln any other way when one remembers that farm commodities are produced ln so many mllllons

There ls justice in the plea that. the hundred dollars clothing al- lowance for men discharged from the armed forces of Canada be made retroactive. Under present conditions. a man with relatively. llgllt service will get. the hundred dollars lvlillc others. with longer Sefvlrle. but discharged before the changes were made, may have re. 9911911 111113’ $35 or $65. All should be treated alike on honorable dts- ¢1111Y§e.—tNiagara Frills Review.)

p the post.- t,of industrial research

Big business can hel war prospec

en buttoned up over the doomed enemy hordes? A few. but not many. Nor have the military commanders, except as an outside hope. over expected

leading example ls the direction of mllk into the products most. vlt- ally needed from time to time, through bonuses and other changes

(Christian Science Monitor.) Ono of the most notable instan-

1118. as in this year's over-abund- llners for them. Its surface ships

anl. supply of eggs ln tue United cater almost eti-

of the future wlll Status. it has also complicated

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course has been prepared by a committee consisting principally f psychiatrists ..We trust that Can_ ada‘s other universities wlll stick to their proper spheres, and not set. themselves un as standlns for

with preserving the flexibility n- mong relative prices which is nec- essary to keep production adjusted to market demands.

5990111111’. the war has shown how the elimination of extreme and

efficient use of productive facili- tfes by discouraging farmers n;

prloes greatly reduces this waste and directs production promptly into the desired channels.

The ehlrd fact which has been brought out. by the war period ls that. guaranteed prices tend "stick." that. adlus ments of relo- tlve prices to guide production tend

VERSE

What should we know. For better or worse.

Of the Lon! A610. Were ft. not for Verse: What. stubs went clovz/gci

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What; walla were rs

who won the gown; to be upward. If this type of in- what, lads were Drafted? flexlblllty persisted. the whole A fallen stone. level of farm prices might get out

Or u waste of sands. And all is known Of Art-less lands. But vou need not delve Bv the sea-side lill Where the . use herself All Time fulfills. who cuts with hls scythe All tlilnirs but hers:

he bllthe Hexameters.

of llne with prtc.. 1n other sectors of the economy-at danger to be guarded against, like inflexibility between t-he prices of one product and another. (To Be Continued)

nouboii -- (or) - Maj.-Gen. Army Blood Transfusion Service, said blood transfusions now give

. . l any sign that our endurance can be exhaustcc.

wounded men an OO-per-een

-Ollve.r at. John Godot-W. #111111“ 01 revel/ery-

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