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THE" GUARDIAN‘

Morning Dally (Founded in 1887.. Authorised as Second Class Mall, Post. Office Department. Ottawa. freldent, Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President. Win. It. Burnett; Seoy.-'!‘reas., G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. J. R. Burnett; Associate Editor, frank Walker.

”Tlio Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest lnk." ,

"CHARIJOTT-ITITO-VTIN, ivscifiinr, sihsiciismis. 1948‘ (Sabine! Shakeiip

Hon. A. W. Motheson, K.C., newly appoint- ed Minister of Health and Welfare, is to be con- gratulated upon his promotion to full portfolio rank. Ari experienced legislator, Mr. Matheson is also a competent lawyer and business man, and there is no doubt but that he will discharge his new duties conscientiously.

Hon. Mr. Hughes, whose retirement is re- portedly due to business reasons, will be freer now than he has been for some years, as a non- portfolio member of the Government. Premier Janos, on tho other hand, is assuming added re- sponsibilities as acting Provincial Secretary and Treasurer. As such, he will presumably deliver the Budget speech this week. He confessed a few years ago that he knew nothing about fin- ances, which is just too bad!

What is surprising is the suddcnness with which this Cabinet emergency arose. A shake- up was pending for some time, but no one ex- pected it to happen in the dead of night, and with all the secrecy accompanying a state con- spiracy. This touch of melodrama is the lost thing one would expect from the Jones Govern- ment. lt will, of course, provide the Opposition with a fresh subject for speculation and inquiry; but the answers, if any, are likely to bo as un- illuminating as were those tabled with respect to the packing plant controller and the fox

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Souvenirs

On June l2, i936, the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta signed an order-in-council authoriz- ing the issue of $200,000 in "prosperity certifi- cafes," more commonly known as script. Last week, a return tabled in the Alberta Legislature showed that Z42 of these certificates were still held by the Government-to be sold as souvenirs.

According to the Calgary Herald, twenty- fivo thousand of these pieces of "funny money" have not yet been presented for redemption. lt is improbable they ever will be. Their holders treasure them far beyond their face value, Thcy are mementos of a bizarre experiment which Albertans remember with a chuckle and their Social Credit Government would prefer to for- get.

- Similarly it may come to pass that our fam- ous Jones Government "six months’ scripts," now so freely obtainable, will vanish shortly from circulation in this Province, and eventually wind up as rare collectors’ items. The misnamcd Act under which they are issued is reportedly due for a complete overhauling by the Legislature. Should the "drys" win the Prohibition plebiscite to be taken next June 28, they are bound to dcmand a return to the "one script one bottle" system, Hcnce the likelihood that the current script will become rarer with time, rind like Alberta's ill onicned "prosperity certificatcs" find its way at last into souvenir albums.

Incredible!

According to a news item from Moscow, Russia's clocks have been inaccurate for the last 66 years. They have run ahead of scientific time by .005 of a second because some erriiig scientist placed the official time observatory five feet off the zero meridian of longitude.

This news, says the Winnipeg Free Press, is almost incredible, coming from Moscow, because never bcforo has the Russian government admit- ted a mistake. lts timing has always been par- fcct even to five-thousandths of a second.

However, the mistake can be blamed upon the Czars, who built the observatory in the wrong place. When the present government gets around to building. a_ new one we may be sure that Rus- sian time will be advanced wellover that of the western world, since the Communists are always ahead of everybody, especially in such time zones as Prague and Helsinki. The Czars could only put Russia .005 seconds in advance of the west. Tho time keepers of tho Politburo (Where it is already later than you think) should be able to do better than that.

Luxury For Bows

The other day we quoted an English con- temporary who discovered that what cows need- ed to produce more milk in wintry days was clothing. Now wo learn that cows have an- other nood which roquiros supplying, viz., rs nursery or ploy room. Tho Montreal Gazette, though o city newspaper, has learned all about it, and informs its readers on tho subject as f_ol- lows:

"Somo authorities on cattlo out west have mode on important recommendation. They have urged that ‘play-rooms’ be constructed for cows. lt is their boliof that much discontent and on incalculoblo impoverishment of tho supply of ‘milk have resultodfrom the way cows ore rig- ldly confined in the long months of winter. Thsy strongly advocate that no born be without its ploy-room. '

L "Tho recommendation of the western ex- . ts will appeal olilio to common sense and ra R iiioriitdrianlsiii-lf the lottor word is applic- ldblo After oll, it must ho rothor drab and i "tote, oliiit‘ iio in o ‘stoll all winter and to

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sleeping and producing. This is asking too much for too little. The whole movement now is to- wards improved humanitarian relations. There is no reason why this movement should not go into the barn.

"ln the new play-rooms the cows may kick a leg or two, and gambol a little, and almost im- agine they were out in pastureland, looking over a fence at far horizons. These new facilities for recreation would give the cows a keener zest for work and broader outlook on life and its prob- lems. They will begin to lee} that, after all, they are to be treated like cows.

"ln the long wintry months the lowing herd, though it may not wind slowly o'er the lea, will be ablc t0 step briskly inlo the play-room. The lifc of a cow may soon hove much to be said for it."

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Tlic S.S. Empress of Canada sunk this date i843, -

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The Russo-Finnish Peace Treaty signed this date i940. ' The ldes of March. Julius Caesar died this date B.C. 44.

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Taxpayers are beginning to look for that

savings portion refund.

. .. .. t Failure of the U. N. to reach o peaceful solution _of the Palestine problem could easily result in Russia occupying that country to re- store order, hence Ottawa's concern about war prospects.

- .. . .- Doesn't it sound somewhat anomalous that at the some time the City Council takes legislative action to increase its property vote by including wives of property owners, that steps should be taken to induce the same Legislature to deprive. farmers altogether of a property vote?

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Compulsory retirement of_men enjoying full health and vigor is both cruel and wasteful. There are a few professions, such as the armed forces, which deliberately seek to have a large body of available trained men without the expense of continuing to employ them but society as a whole cannot afford lobe so wasteful of manpower.

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The Mayor and City Council is to bi: con- gratulated on its budget, especially in being able ta arrange its finances to ovoid increased taxa- tion. The collection of the Poll Tax is still a problem, and it will remain so till the authorities take their courage in both hands and collect it regularly by collectors on a commission basis or by gornishce. "

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A few years ago street cars were on the way out in modern cities, their place being talacn by more comfortable and convenient basses. The trend has now reversed, however, and the higher passenger-carrying capacity of the street car now outweighs other considera- lions.

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Locally the C. C. F. seems to be the only political party actively encouraging the rising generation to study public questions. The old llflfl Pflrlifis Ole opt to think that their prin- ciples and policies are wcll known and under- stood, but the new younger generation, unlike their fathers, do not inherit a knowledge of poli- tics, they must be given a chance to learn irnder present very different conditions.

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lt is a fine thing to have a reputation of which to be proud. ln Portland, Me., praise for Con- GdlUHS who look American citizenship came froiii Judge John D. Clifford, Jr. "Hundreds or thousands of Canadian-born men and women, during the past century, became United States citizens, and many of them were leaders in ou. state and nation," Judge Clifford told a natural- ization class. Six Canadians were in the group of l5. "Much of the industrial development at Maine and of New England," he said, "is the rc- sult of their cnergy, imagination, integrity, character, loyalty and intelligence."

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.App|’0XlmGl'9ly 45,000 names of fallen ser- vicemen will appear in The Second World War Book of Remembrance on which work has now commenced. This compares with 66,651 names that appear in the World War l book, now re- posing in the Memorial Chamber of tho Peace Tower Parliament Buildings, Ottawa. Names to appear in the book are now being completed on cards from which they will be listed in the book by year of death. The first shipment ‘of rare vellum, on which the names are to be in- scribed, arrived recently in Canada from on old English firm of craftsmen. Canadians who fell while serving with any British Common- wealth forces will be included.

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Miss Dorothy Thompson (who has succeeded Dr. H. L. Stewart as columnist in Montreal Gaz- ette) has put her finger on the real weakness in all the plans for a union of Western Europe. Sho points out that there is every argument for oco- nomic union, but that it is o mistake to suggest that this can be accomplished by o series of ecoi nomic agreements. As she argues, those who quote the economic success of the U. S. forgot that North America was not united economically until it had been united politically, and that there would be little use in trying to obtain full economic union of Western Europe until political union has been accomplished. In other words there would hove been no union of tho. Thirteen Colonies oxcopt to oppose Britain, nor of tho Canadian provinces except to offset tho danger from tho United. Stotos so psrhops o rool Euro- pean union will rosiilt from tho throat of Rus- sron aggression

Most oLthe 18,000,!“ employed in the United States, ll’: slid. work because they must. In‘: a condition which points up the

“hinge Sincr-“Va poet. "wrote that. men work and women iveep, - Wtudsor Star.

ocurance lll the 14th. Century," says a historian, "the poor aoulJ not. afford to patronize them." Must be presently cnughL 1:; ‘a ciclo, uouldrrt you say? _.si_;ay- ford Beacon-Herald.

ll. will be rather a blow to many people's ideas about. the privileges of diplomacy to rend of "tho bag of diplomatic mall" ivhlcli has Just been delivered in Paris from Landon after a delay of three mouths. Last. November it. was sent to London airport for immediate despatch to Paris, but. lrgoi, dump. crl ln a freight shed where ll re- mained undiscovered until lflils ivcelc. If the forgotten consignment ‘"3 B" “ample of that. famous vehicle "the diplomatic bag‘ ‘it. lI-‘ifllll’ seems Lo have received Llie attention clue to its sacrosanci lrn- parlance. — Manchester Guardian.

g Tire new signalling system being installed at York, England, wk! be able to deal with aver 800 any". ens lraln routes. It will be com. Pletfid by 1950 and be the largest of-lts kind ln the world. All brains within a distance of four mile.- w the south and one mile to the north of this important Junction ou the London to Edinburgh line will be controlled from a central point, New features wlll be paw- tit-operated points and color-light ol8nats. So intricate ls the equip. mcnt. that testing after completion \\'lll occupy several rriontlis. The cast of construction is estimated M $060,000, _ UK Information Office.

If. is a moot problem if ~whal ap- plies iirtlie university does not, also HDDJY mdhe lower schools, with the ‘age limlt. of 16 causing waste of Lime ivlicri youngsters could b- learnlng the rudiments of a goo-J trade. The old system of appren- ticeship did have its good point! Whcn the royal commission “e- harls this sear on Ltic education, al system n! Ontario. llicrn is hopc uf great advanccs and reforms l0 (allow. 1L is a mallm‘ of hlslc-iv uhcrc men have risen lo great. heights in human endeavor", they have sacrificed the most. and wail:- ed hard for their education. Nctli- in; is truer than the ancient. ax- iom, There is no royal road Lu

learning, --St. Cathay-tries smug. ard. One of the atlll unexplained

medical riiysierics of the Second Worlrl Wm" is the absence ol any serious epidemic among, the thou- sands who lived for months in fh: crowded, makeshift conditions o‘ Britain's air rnld shelters. 111056 who saw, for instance, the nigh".- l_\ elbaiv-Lo-elboiv existence of many Londoners in the tube sta- tion platforms far underground often wondered what would ‘hap- pen if influenza began to sweep through the sleeping ranks. There were warnings and foreboding: - but the disease dld not slrlke. No one knows why. And even colds and other infectious diseases re- i-urdcd what medical nutinorltlcs term a "remarkable abscnce." Where they did appear, they had a lower virulence than usual. This record was equally true of all} rlren’s.hea.lfli. - Victoria Tunes.

We would like to be one of the first. to lay down the ‘welcome’ mat. before the disinfectant-dipped handkerchief now being designed for winter use. We have been peer- lrig over the medical gadget. hori- zon for years for just such a nandy little safeguard. The ‘common cord ls bad enough la itself and in some other person's chest but. when ‘ic- or she sncezes, coughs, wheezes. and generally cxtiales hls common colcl than hc or she ls a menace and ntiould,bc removed from cir- culnllon. The close inllmavy o.‘ the bus, the elevator. the theatre, and the restaurant counter with noth- lug better than a common harury ls just siliclde. But. with one of the new disinfectant-dipped wlp- ers now under consideration by the National Institution for Medi- cnt Research, we may have a chalice. Next to staying home from the office or putting one's head ln a bag this germ-destroy- ing place o! llncn would be our most charitable act. towards our healthy fellow oltlnns. - London Free Press.

After the lnundrum nolseo of‘ the clay have drowned lnlo the quiet: of dpsk and finally culled ln the hush of early night, a strange sense of expectancy seems lo per- vnde the darkness by the seas-note The cold light of stars shows only the bulk of objects devoid of feat» urea. The familiar scene ls lost ln a different. world of alien forms. The qulck- rattle of some small marine tmlmnl scrambling down the rocks stirs the listener to quick fright. The gurgle of valor. suddenly breaking down the ac- cidental dam that. held it. ls start,- llng. The rattle of a dead leaf catching on the uneven bank ls magnified, distorted, conluros up an lmago of something rnovln; by stealth. The anguished ory of I long-logged crane, a darker shape against the dark sky as 1t. irlfts to lts roost in the kelp bod, roaches through tho ages to otrlko a chord of terror that. tiao come down from prlmltlve man who foarod what he could not understand. -Vlc- torla Times.

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at. an antholooy of oyeoptianuc pralss ho would find a’ [old rnlno fn the modern dlolqtorsnfps. All records woro bnokoa recently by a oertaln Joaquin Perot loos-teal.

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"SIGNS OI‘ THE TIMES"

Sin-Since the termination of the Second World War great. changes are sweeping the iiorlcl from one end to the other. All of us want. more of llfe than we nave ever-had before, which ln turn, means we want. more liberty, more education, a hlgher- standard of llvlng and a spiritual revival that wlll take God out, of the Church and let Him become active ln tho affairs of men.

How else shall we interpret. the cry which rises on every side. “we want llfe not empty oereononialsl’

Too often in the past. such p -ad- lngs of the masses fell on deaf ears, but the time is now come when the world must. awaken to the importance of the man. the individual and make sure that. Jus- tlce is rendered unto those lri low places es well as to the exalted! The terrible, yawning gap be- tween the have nations and the nave riots is what. thinking peoplr- resent. Too much emphasis has always been placed upon the aris- tocrats and on the chief powers. leaving the vast problems of the little fellow to take care of them- selves, thus creating a lack uf bal- ance that breeds re-bels every- where, and unless we are prepar- ed to bridge this gap which sep- erates the world inlo many dis- satisfied factions, I fail lo see how we can get along together. Ufe cannot be secular at one point and divine at another; wealth cannot. stalk one part of the globe

while another section lives. ln poverty and rags. No wonder peoples are getting

Llred of this eternal profiling of low-brow peoples and nations. They are low-brow only because we have kept them that. way through exploitation and other means. _

But Worlrl War ll has changed all this, and even the most prim- itive people know instinctively that life itself is more important man any theory about lllEh‘ and now they are on their way to dis- cover the secret of happiness through "real achievement...

They know, too, that educaLiran is one of the more powerful (ac-i tors in the realization of their drcams—not, the education Lo be gleaned from books, but. the educa- Liori that draws forth Llie inner resources of the individual. This source at knowledge enables the marl to appraise his own pmslcal. spiritual and moral power, and also makes lt possible for him to know something of the world about hlm.

Only through such enlightenment can we ever hope Locstablisli on earth the true brotherhood of nzan and the fatherhood of God which ls the working principal that. every life of freedom and happiness ls built upon. _

Too many persons forgot that hook learning ls only the servant. of education and not its master. Henkdrlk Van Loon has written a charming book tilled: “Man the Miracle Maker", in which the story ol’ mants achievement is criq tcrtainlngly Lolcl, with the predic- Llon of still greater triumph» ahead. . . "through these triumphs in the field of science and adven- ture, man hopes to make hls filial escape from those difficulties whlch‘aro today making hlm a slave."

The prediction of sin,‘ to: "The world ls on the threstihold of a new power era." finds justulce- fion today ln the realm of relig- lon, which at last. ls placing the emphasis where it belongs. dis- carding the totes to make way for the golden wheat. That. this wlll cause a revolution in religion there can he little doubt; it may oven mean the shedding of ‘nua- and dogma, but. what. does that. matter as long as the truth and splrlt. are preserved.

And there ls little hope of achieving a truly democratic worll without having to fight a third world war, The totalitarian coun- tries and the democracies can never hit. it. off with any degree of omlty. Dally events prove the truth of this assertion. When the clash comes it. will be terrible, tn say the least, but. over the usnes of a ruined clvlllzntlon shall arise that. new Jerusalemf "ltavlng the glory of God, and the naitona which are saved shall walk ln the lght of ft."

I om Sir. etc, UNCLE JOE.

loss after the re-operilng of the frontier between Spain and France. Benn;- Madrlgal began by invoking the Deity tn "psalms" of praise: "The attainment ls the word of God and of Franco, who ls Hts prophet." A misguided English politician once called Franco “a great. Christian gentleman", or something of the kind; Senor Madrigal has no hesitation’ tn pro- moting hlm to higher spheres, Ap- parentJy-when, ln 103G, the Span- ish people asked for God's nelp, "God paid heed to them and re- plied: ‘I wlll send Franco unto than, with 100,000 arcbangolo“. (Are arehanoels organised ln trrl- godco and armed with machine- guns?) Thus ft. was that "the mighty forces arrayed by our eno- rriloa" wore overcome by the "sup- erhuman power" of tho Oaudlllo ft. seems, on tho lace of It, a little unfair and perhaps a time imitat- boring. We know Franco had

on toot No wonder non-inconven- lion foiled la Quin. J Monouns- to: Gultdlll

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