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"The Strongest Memory ls Weaker The; the Weakest Ink.‘

ssoxs vfiis, sass ' Telling Gardiner Off ‘I

_4 Agriculture Minister Gardiner’s bitter at- lack on General Pearkes, V.C., made after that officer's resignation from his post as chief of the Pacific Command, is roundly denounced by Mr. Gardiner's own party organ, the Winnipeg Free Press. The Minister had accused General Pearkes, among other things, of being a “Tory organizer" inside the army for the past two years.

“\\'l1at," asks the Free Pres: scornfully, "has Hr. Gardiner been doing then for the past two years? Why, if he knew this was going on, did he not force an issue when the matter first attracted his attention? Is it possible that he made thcsc charges to the cabinet, that the cabinet examined them and rejected his [Jroofs as inadequate? Is it possible that the cabinet examined them, found them proved, but decid- cd, for reasons which to the public will rc- main obscure, to do nothing about them? The in- cident is not one calculated t0 decrease the gen- eral disquiet that has remained as a legacy from the crisis of last November. It is also one which raises very large questions, regarding the principle of cabinet solidarity and Govern- ment responsibility to Parliament. Such inci- dents are perhaps inevitable as a consequence of the complicated web of circumstances which has dictated the Government's military man- power policy ever since 1939 . . . but it is dis- quieting to be provided with this additional evi- dence that, in the fifth year of their life, Gov- ernment and Parliament are showing obvious signs of the need of refreshment by a new man- date from the people. For Mr. Gardiner's at- tack on General Pearkes is also an attack upon two successive ministers of defence, both Mr. Ralston and General McNaughton, one of whom placed the general in the post he held while the other maintained him there long after he him- self yhad urged that he be permittedto re- ngn. ’

The Democratic Way

Here is something for our local legislators, who meet shortly, to ponder on:

Ex-Premier T. Duff Pattullo of British Columbia has arisen in the Legislature to de- clare that members “changing their (party) allegiance" should resign and seek rc-election.

This statement, comments the ‘Vancouver News-Herald, arises from a fundamental mis- conception not confined to Mr. Pattullo, but common among that class of politicians, par- to whom the party nuich- inc looms larger than the democratic electorate.

It assumes that the legislative member is elected to represent the party rather than the people.

Too oftcn this is the case in Canadian poli- ‘tics, but we may be thankful that it is not by any means always so in practice and never so in theory. The member represents the people who elected him—not only those who voted for him, but those who voted against him and those who did not vote at all. He represents the people; not the faction, the party nor the machine.

In the legislature he 1's free to act on his own responsibility according to his duty to his constituents. He is sent there to represent them as best he can and if his intelligence or l1lS conscience bids him support or oppose this act- ion or that, if they bid him leave one group or join another, it is not only his right, but his ob- ligation to do so.

‘just so long as our political representatives represent the people, we will have democratic government. When they are all forced to represent the party, democracy is (lead and totalitarian government holds sway.

Units

Dr. I. W’. Tait, director of teacher training and supervision in the Saskatchewan Depart- ment of Education, recently stated in Regina that "a. change-over from the smaller to the larger units of school administration will mean a new deal in education for the children of Saskatchewan.”

The adoption of the larger unit plan, he said, constituted the most forward step made in edu- cation in the history of that province.

He did not know of a single place where larger units w-ere set up. that returned to the smaller units. llc mentioned nine main bene- fits, including the equitable distribution of the cost of education, equal opportunities for chil- dren in rural and urban areas, high schools con- veniently located.

The larger units were strongly favored at an educational conference recently conducted by the New York Times and the Public Eritrea- tion Association of the U. S. Dr. Howard A. Dawson, director of the rural service of the National Education Association, stated that, as a class, rural schools were far inferior to the urban ones, and seriously restricted the edu- cational opportunities of millions of rural chil- dren. Financial trou-blcs were largely respons- ible, the average rural teacher cariring $967, as against $l,937 for urban teachers.

In the discussion at this conference it was brought out that a large proportion of the farm population, poorly educated. nligrate to the cities and there constitute ".1 tremendous proh- lem."

Then the question of organizing larger school units was raised. The speakers agreed that this was one answer to the problem of rural

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h education. The Time: report quotes the edu-

cators as saying that the small, lftillik. One- room school. a “vestige of ox-cart dayii" W“ scarcely defensible on any grounds. '

-EDITORIAL NOTES- Farmers’ week. i u u u n Napoleon escaped from Elba this date 1815; France rallied-to him, and he once more chal- lenged the European coalition; the battle of Waterloo (June r8) was the answer to this challenge. ' I I I I The meeting of the March will enable an adjournment over Easter as "half-time", in accordance with long usage. Last year was an exception. Up till then the practice was to open the session, l4 or I5 days before Good Friday, and then adjourn for a week at Easter. a- w a n Military authorities announce that lo of 26 soldiers who returned to M.D. r0 before Christ- mas, on rotation leave after five years over- seas service, are slated to return to the battle- fronts. The others will be retained in Canada for either medical or compassionate grounds. n- a- a: a

flying schools at Calgary, the No. IO R. C. A. F. Repair Depot staged a $1,000,000 bonfire of planes no longer needed because of being out- of-datc or otherwise unsuitable for present day or post-war needs. That is how our money goes, but better this way than falling into enemy hands. n- o n s-

Storage eggs will retain their initial weight and much of their freshness for increased periods of time in years to come, for their shells will be less porous than those of today, says Business ll"cek. Shrinkage by evaporation will be mini- mized. Poultry breeders are discovering that chickens can be bred for tough dense shells on their eggs almost as easily as turkeys have al- ready been bred for higher proportions of white meat.

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Life is apparently harder on Canadian men than on women. Between the 1931 and I941 censuses, according to newly issued tabulations of the latter canvass, the life expectancy of onc- year-olcls showed an increase of over three years for girl babies and only one and a half years for boys. And the total life expectancy of the boys is still about two and a half years less than for girls-—66.I4 years against 68.73. For men at ages from 4o years up, the average expectable life spans actually declined between censuses, whereas those for women showed con- sistent increases for all age levels.

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That posterity may know. Holborn Bor- Dugll Council has decided to ask the London County Council to rename the north side of Lincoln's Inn Fields as Canada Walk further to commemorate the cordial relations during the war between the Royal Canadian Air Force and the citizens of Holborn. It was on the north side of Lincoln's Inn Fields that a maple tree, the gift of the Mayor and citizens of Ottawa, Ont- ario, which had been flown from Canada, was planted last week by the Mayor of Holborn, Alderman Wilfred E. Mullen.

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A Hungarian who l1as just arrived in Stock- holm from Berlin says, "The Germans will con- tinue to do what they are bid without question. Those who are called-up will report at the ap- pointed places for service with Volkssturm, and without protest but without enthusiasm, and will allow themselves to be drafted wherever the high command thinks to send them. With inade- quate weapons, and lacking anything like pro- per training, they will march to meet the Rus- sian ourush and die or be taken prisoners. Or they will stubbornly withstand Allied air bomb- ing and shelling in defensive positions 0f the West. They will be moved by no burning zeal to defend the Fatherland, no fanatical ardour for the Nazi cause, no determination to escape at all costs the terrible future which Nazi pro- paganda depicts for defeated Germany. Like robots they will obey. They will obey be- cause their apathetic souls know nothing but obedience, their dulled minds cannot conceive what would be the result for them of a success- ful revolt. They are convinced that any attempt at revolt would in any case fail and bring about their own individual extermination by the S. S. or Gestapo.” Such a state of mind does not lend itself to panic, and up till yesterday no news of panic in Berlin had been brought out by travellers.

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The announcement by a spokesman at De- fence Headquarters that home defence troops have been integrated with general scrvicc mcu "for all purposes" and that the former N. R. M. A. forces are not "segregated in any way" is a welcome contribution to the knowledge made available at home of what is taking place abroad, says lllantrml Gazelle. The declaration is suf- ficiently important, however, to have been made by the Defence Minister himself instead of by an anonymous spokesman, for it contradicts un- confirmed reports that home defence troops have not been so integrated with tnose who volun- teered, and it ought therefore to have been de- livered with the weightiof full authority. It would be astonishing if the Government had (lone otherwise than integrate the home defence troops with general service men and move them through the reinforcement pools to the front line areas. Otherwise the conscripted men would find themselves occupying the same role in Britain as they did in Canada-defending the country from an improbable invasion. More- over, by integrating the newly-arrived reinforce- ments with the active troops the Defence Dc- pnrtment has at hand the best means of putting an cnd to the unhappy two-army system. For with their absorption into the regular army the hmnc defence troops would be assimilated and

would disappear.

Legislature on the 13th a,

On account of the closing of the Alberta t

THE TPYPUWN - GUARDIAN Notes By The Way

N nnan Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review of Iilberature, re- turned from a Southern tour with this story of Oblef Justice Harlan Flake Stone, golf against s. 0198mm: tons s 200- srd

drive. The el ste u to tee swuqz f ouslry ancilmlssetll metered a the ball or a full mln-

. then ste up to tn again. The C ef Justice told him: ‘ t: was the most profane silence I aver heard 1n my life." -- New York Post. Beach.- may be handicapped In Illa United States by wsr regula- ons, but. not. abroae. According

a d ‘earl Harbor, o! all places, m3“ géemrs of “Else army an navy a ur of the Pacific war front. And many of the names are familiar. The strange lingo of the diamond may convince natives that. a new country has entered the war. - Toronto Globe and Mall.

We might thank the doctors for prolonging our lives, on the aver- age. but, on the other hand, lm- aglne paying taxes so much longer. -Guelpb Mercury.

A house had been hit, and the rescuerfls founu Grandma, not real- ly hurt. but. shocked and covered with debris. They laid her on a. stretcher and, as soon as she gut. her wlts back, she beckoned feebly o one of the rescue jmrty. He- bent down. “Yus, ma? Anythln’ can do for yer?" "Do ‘ave a. look for me purse. It's in the kltchlnt" Thoege wasn't any kitchen, but the go

We've found yer bag for yer.

I'll tell ye wot. else we found. Wot d'yer fink? ‘Arf s. bottle o’ brandy. Come on, ‘ave a drop." "Oh,

the old lady exclaimed. _

I'm keeping that for an emergency. —L.A.G. Strong on the BBC.

Cllbturecl tn But, despite all, and to ndcl to, Hitler's disap- pointments, they are still being: used for military purposes. The British Information Service rc- Dorts that. as o. paper saving meas- ure, the War Office simply ln-

prlnted sides for the large-scale

maps for the push into the Reich.

Ehqt ls an ef ectlve boomerang ln e

structed its printers to use the un- it

Homes Of The Future

(By Jean Mann. QX-Blllllc of Glas-

giow and lalorgarnryryOrgunlaemf me

' own an oun lann - soclatlou)

(BBO Broadcast)

‘There's l. big room this wee . ln length and ted 1n lurid col- ours. It's gs psstebonrd but I don't want throw 1t out to

You see, this key means to m It represent a family gathering

I

e. of last week when by youngest son was twcnt -one. We got hold of him and ed ll: round his neck-twcnty-one and the key of the doorl It seemed gust ll e yesterday when I took to school an with a tug st my heart handed blm over to the Education Authonty. We can't. have gay parties these pays and this was just. a family ‘gathering, but unique because I a all my family there and I was very 118811917. There was also my only bro er, home from the sea. my father, and the high spot of the evening, my grandson. wee Billy. When they had gone, I sat at the flre - tired but happy. Memories loomed up from the flames and there were dreams too. That; remark of my father's "How times have changed; I lemembe when s. Navvy was of- fered a shilling a day and he had to bring his own shovel." Then he looked round the room and said: "What a flue big room, and n nice high ceiling." I wondered: My family think it. ls too old-fashion- ed. They like streamlined styles. But. it's n good family house —two public, three bedrooms and

‘ "spare" where I tell my grandson - "Peter Pair" dwells. Actually it's

a junk room! And of course I have all modern conveniences. I need them, having to do without help of any kind. Yes, this house is just blg enough for me.

My father's remarks set me thinking. My own hard upbringing and my father at seventy-seven

cheerfulness and his milk and roses complexion (the envy of his grand- daughters). A complexion like that after sixty years ln an iron foun- dry, and never a cosmetic! I won- dared whether I should tell my children about the kind of house I was brought up ln. I mentioned A two-room apartment: tn an overcrowded part of the clty. Twelve houses up the same entry. one W. C. between every three fam- llles. But my father had only thirty-five shillings n. week. Af- ter r: bit. when some of usvstarted to work, we moved to the suburbs where he had a bathroom and more accommodation. But thous-

d to fl land was being occupied with s map calling for action ln quite an- other direction.

American troops on the Western Front heavily outnumbcr British. and so do our current casualties. On the basis of relative populations, tnat. ls inevitable, and fair. The fact. ls that America ls carrying her load at the front. Britain con- tinues to curry hers-besides home- front sacrifices lncomparably heav- ler than ours. And tf anyone carer b0 suggest that Russia isn't carry- ing her load let. him have another look at Page Oriel-Chicago Sun.

"Keep your letters going overseas. \.nrc often and write about any- hlng." That. ls the message Peter Stursberg well-known CBC war corresponlent, brings to people of Winnipeg from their men over- seas. Mr. Stursberg covered the .....llan fighting fronts. He was at Ortona and Sasslnn. He has talk-- ed to hundreds of soldiers ln the battle areas. That ls one thing they all want-letters from home. Soldiers returning from overseas have told time and again of a feeling of utter loneliness which came upon them tn the fight. A. sure talisman against. that feeling: was something from home. A pack- age, s. letter-even a letter full of trlvlallttes-gave them n. bond with. all they hold dear here in Canada. So it ls up to us on the hometront- to see that. n steady stream of let.- ters keeps flowing to our men in the armed services. Newsy letters about the family and nelghbor- hoocl. who painted his house and what happened to the cat. ‘These are the greatest morale bullders oi all-Winnipeg ‘Trlbune.

A British soldier. a Desert Rat. with service ln Palestine, North Africa. Sicily and Italy. and a. Mll- ltary Medal, took a camera. and a.

soner. Returning home he was fln- ed £1 and a guinea costs under the 1926 Southend Corporation Act. Field Marshal " ntgomery "won" two caravans from enemy generals he defeated. He had better avoid Southend when the war ts wont- From Sunday Express.

The Bishop of Birmingham ad- vocates “a. new friendliness" to- wards Germany. He would forgive and forget. as Brltaln did in the twenties-with the results we know.

as weakness and secretly but: tn- stantly began preparations for the present war-Ottatvu Journal.

ls learning the lesson of self-sufflclenc from this war. One of lt-s latex advances 1s tho discovery that; rhododendron grown ln this country makes as flne smoking pipes as. if not better than the celebrated brlar Imported from lc A patent has just been ts- for improved process which permits the seasoning of

America

lighter from n. German officer prl- d

The Germans interpreted kindness we

ands stlll llve ln these houses we left, and when I became a Magis- trate of the City of Glasgow, many of them came before me for d0- lng the very things I used to do myself-children I mean. Climbing lamposts, sitting on wash-house roofs, playing games ln the buck- courts, shouting and bawllng to annoyance of the, citizens. . . n

Don't I remember running round these entries, ivlth a. dozenotbers at my heels, and being grabbed by the neck by the old folk on the bottom flat who swore they'd re- port ‘us to the police. ‘There weren't so many police about those days- probably why I was never caught. And now I know that these chll- dren who came before me haven't. even the backcourt that we had. In the growth of the city the back- courts lmve been filled up with workshops, etc. No wonder I'm an enthusiast for housing and town- plannlngl . ..crc can these chil- dren play? I remember we used to save a half-penny, get. some Jam pieces of bread from mother, and trav park. What a treat to see grass and trees! What: grand days we spent. in that. park, wnlklng all the way home at. night tired out but happy! That. was one day the neighbours got: some peace!

Many of my old playmates are now housed n better houses in good surroundings with their ilWll gardens. For during the inter- war years we rebuilt. one third of our houses. It was my happy pri- vilege to take our visitors, who came from the Domlnlons and Col- onies for the Coronation. around some of these new housing estates. I still have in my possession names and addresses of the representative of the States ln Australia and I've promised to pay a return call some a .

y. In these years we built the equl- valent of seventeen new towns. strange, too. that; I who had known all the suffering of bad housing, should find myself chairman of the b ,, committee of the second largest city tn Britain, charged with the responsibility of getting on with the job! They came to me for houses. They came from every district, and every class of the community, from dungarees to fur coats. From early morning until mlclnght, the door bell and the pho rang. and when I left: the house tnev walbed for me at the Council Chambers. "It/s llk n Cinema crowd nwntthlg you.“ the officials used to say.

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We put up the houses by the hundred thousand but ll: wasn't enough. And of course the war came along and stopped our ef- forts. But it dld not; stop the marriages. "Several thousand young men are marrying several thous- and young women, and they wlll

rhododendron within eltzht weeks, a blg boon ln commercial manu- facture. No doubt brlsr wlll soon become a relic to the American smoken-Boston Post.

Luckily, the fnslslon in male sl- tlre ls fairly static, and a shirt back from the laundry s. as a. rule, still ln style-Stratford Beacon- Herald.