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AUGUST M. 1948

. THE GUARDIAN

merely by reading descriptive passages, and there is no doubt that today's youngsters are fam-

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Aeooelute Editor, Irunh Wolkoe

iliar with countless ruoro ideas than has beeil any previous generation. History, travel, for- eign customs, tho great characters of fiction are all familiar to yautliul readers of the comics who would otherwise know only of Mary's

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little lamb and similar subjects. Also young people show sound artistic appreciation in their enyoyment of such masterpieces as the cartoon

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The 0. 0.-F. Platform

The second National party to announce its

by the sweeping measures of

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services, banks, coal and primary steel will be taken over by the government. Other industries

g ment, meat-packing and fertilizer, are only to 1 be controlled by the government while still be- lng administered by private enterprise.

Of most interest in this Province are the eight sections of the C. C. F. farm policy.

l. A system of "guaranteed or forward" prices. This will be achieved by fixing prices

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: market fluctuations. ~' '7 2. A notional marketing act and the es-

er-producer representation to market all farm

products involving inter-provincial or world

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i ' 3. Orderly world marketing based on long- ‘ term international agreements.

4. Assistance in the development of co- r . operatives, commodity groups and other farm , organizations for orderly marketing.

~ i 5. Elimination of speculation in the mar- keting of food. '

6. Public and co-operative ownership in such fields as form machinery, fertilizers and meat- packing.

7. Adoption of the "ever-normal granary" principle. This it explains would entail gov- erniment financing of storage facilities for feed and grains to ensure a continuous supply.

8. Crop insurance applied first to such com- modities as wheat, coarse grains and flax and later extended to other crops such as potatoes and fruit. Provincial governments would be re- quired to assist in this arrangement.

A more comprehensive vote-getting collec- tion of planks could scarcely be imagined, and it may be wondered how such a policy could pos- sibly fail to receive the cominendation of 100% of our formers. Guaranteed high prices if the

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poor. No worries about marketing. No worries about growing. Under the C. C. F. programme the former ls to be made but little lower than the civil servants who are to be -ln charge from the cradle to the grave.

In their bid for power the C. C. F. planners are not unmindful that there are other voters, .and to catch these, whose chief concern is the ‘high cost of food products, suitable concessions will be mode. Permission to buy margarine as o substitute for butter will be granted under their policy.

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Anti-Butter and llleo

The sponsors of oleo have a splendid Press propaganda. Of course there is no shortage of butter now, never has been at this time of year when flush production is on. Those who have issued warning about impending shortage have been trying to look ahead, says a contemporary, hoping for some remedy before actual trouble starts. But there was a severe shortage last March and April and this year wo have made less butter, more has gone into consumption, stocks in known storage are dawn and the population has increased. Those facts are in- escapable. Whether the\ actual period of , shortage comes after Christmas, as the trade i has suggested, or in February as Agricultural l?‘ Minister Gardiner suggests, does not matter. I ‘Even February is three months prior to the w‘ start of new production, months when we must ' get along on storage stocks, ln the meantime’ the entire trade, including producers, knows that the shortage is coming and orderly mar-

keting is fost becoming impossible. A substan- tial grey market has developed and all sorts of people who never dealt in butter are scrambling for supplies. lt is quite true, as Mr. Gardiner points out, that all this talk of impending shortage is causing a mild stampede among those who think they could not go short on butter even for a short time. People are put- ting butter in private refrigerators and other storage. Maybe it would have been better for those who know the facts to have kept mum and so prevent this petty hoarding. On the"'6thor hand they would have been accused of keeping information secret. Actually too much fuss is being made about the whole matter. Cana- dians will get as much butter this year as any people in the world, a great deal more than t most. > '

ilertoeslsts sro Artists

rrooobly the most criticized form of expres- ilon today is the cartoon. Fond parents and othogs look with concern at the hold which eomlc books have on young people of both sexes. They think that the effortless absorption

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platform, the Co-operative Commonwealth Fed- oration startled even some of its own members socialization -which has pledged itself to introduce into Can-g _ ada at the first session after being elected to All key industries including all transport

will be put under "social ownership" which it

explained is not quite the same as public own-i ership, as these industries such as farm imple-

well ahead so that farmers need not worry about

toblishment of marketing boards with consular

crop is good, and crop insurance if the yield is

bf episodes of violence and crime ls-e threat to

. It is recognised that we loom much more , ‘gapldlywheo we have o picture to look at than

movies produced by Walt Disney and his as- sociates. ' It is not too much to say that when fut- ure scholars study the characteristic art of the twentieth century the work of the great car- toonists_ will be considered one of the principal contributions to real human advancement,

- EDITORIAL norcs ‘-

The Feast of St. Bartholomew. I i l Q

Presbytery meeting in Zion this afternoon. i I N ‘I

Swimming meet for Playground youngsters, Brighton Beach this afternoon.

U i i i "Halloa Louis," "Halloa Alick", is how Vis- count Arlexonder of Tunis and Earl Mountbatten greeted one another an the steps of Rideau Hall. ,- fi I i k Geneva where the huge League of Nations quarters are likely to become a "white ele- phant" for lack of a tenant.

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Still they come and gol Charlottetown »-has been the favourite location for conventions this summer, and not unnaturally one of the lost is now with us-"Say it with Flowers." i W t I

The 80th Congress is reported to have freed the American people from some 76,000 Federal rules. The land of the free must be getting back to normal.

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The Ottawa Journdl, several of whose staff spend their vocation here, is about the best booster we have among the Press generally. What they write about us is not journalese but literature, as, for example, the story in our yes- terday’s issue on sweeping oyster beds. i fl I I

Canada's Major General Arthur H. Potts warns us again that military preparedness is the best way to avoid war. He blames World War_l| on the Western nations listening to paclfrsts who called any defence measure a provocative act. I I

Lord Woolton, first British Minister of Food and Reconstruction, born this date i883. On the defeat of the Churchill Coalition Gov- ernment in i945 -he become chairman of the Conservative Party on the nomination of Mr. Churchill. Was raised to the peerage in i939 to enable him to hold a portfolio he being mon- dging director and chairman of the greet de- partmental stores of Lewis's Limited of Liver-

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lt is rather amusing to read of a Liberal party leader, Harper Prowse of Alberta, com- plaining that Premier Manning has frittered away the Social Credit policies of_ William Aberhart and held power for l3 years under false pretenses. Of all the political parties in Canada today the Liberals pay least attention to their avowed principles, but like Premier Manning they do what is likely to keep them ln

power.

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An intriguing development in diplomacy is the appointment of a psychologist to the United States delegation to the U. N. Atomic Energy Commission. The idea, of course, is to find out why the Russians behave the way they do. So far no concrete suggestions have come from this source but if the idea is generally adopted the old diplomacy of threats and promises may grve way to well-planned suggestion. fi fi I

How that U. N. eats up taxpayers money! President Harry S. Truman has signed a bill for a $65,000,000 interest-free United States loan tb finance construction of the U. N. Permanent Headquarters in New York City. Meanwhile, United Notions officials have said that ground will be broken earl-y in October for excavation and foundation work for the first building-a 39-story unit containing offices for the Secretariat. Construction of the first build- ing is expected to be completed by the summer of i950. Meantime the European nations are moving that the headquarters be transferred to i I I Q

We became the Dominion of Canada rather than the Kingdom of Canada chiefly because the latter term might have offended republican sentiment in our Southern neighbour. "Domin- ion" well and largely describes complete sov- ereignty which we exercise from sea to sea. Canadians will probably’ not quibble if other na- tions of the Commonwealth object to the des-I ignation because of ignorance of its true sig- nificance, but before the Dominions become "commonwealth nations" some enlightenment would seem to be in order.

Q i I While tho Vice-Regal party were unlucky in having part of their home flooded in their absence, Lord Alexander's private secretary was more fortunate. Canadian "Press carries the following: Mrs. Norman Lang of Vancouver is heir to a $300,000 filtoon-room California- Spanish style mansion in Berkeley, Calif" and her two children will receive $50,000 each. Mrs. Long is one of the beneficiaries in the $2,100,- 000 estate of her sister, Mrs. Sally McKee Spons Ilaclo who died in Iorkoley, Aug. 6. Nar- man McKee Lang, a Vancouver broker, and his sister, Mrs. Sally Letson, wile of Moi-Gen. ll. F. G. Larson, private secretary to Canada's Govemor-Goneral, were named to receive $50,-

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SCHOONER LAUNCHED

, "On the 40h,‘ at. Sourls West, was launched a two-mast schooner, cf 99 tons measurement. called the “Nutwocd”, after the celebrated trotting stallion of that name. This vessel ls intended for mackerel seinlng, and ls equipped 1n every particular. No expense has been spared in her building by her owners. Messrs. Matthew, Mc- Lean 8r. 00., and she ls pronounced to be one of the hsndsomcst. and hest constructed vessels ever built in the Ccuntlry. The foreman, Capt. Lord, deserves credit for the work done. Mr. James Keefe, of Rollo Bay, was the contractor." The Guardian, July l4, 1888.

Who Invented Diesels’?

Doxford, a Sunderland tLrm which 1s to supply engines for four of the tankers ordered by the U. S. A. claims that. Loony more of lts diesels go into ncvr ships than any other klnd of en- gine. On order now are some 25c sets totalling about. one and nail million horsepower. This lncllldfi engines being built. ln oversea’- yards ,for six flrms outside Bra.- ain build Doxford engines under licence. So many shlpowners speci- iy Dcxford englncs chat. no fewvc. than eleven United Kingdom firms have been called in lo make Lhcm as well as the parent. company Two reasons for the popularity of this englne are its low oll con- sumption and lack of vibration.

The claim that the modern oil engine or. as lt. ls popularly known, the Diesel, ls o United Kingdom development. is mode in a. letter published 1n the Finer.- cial Tlmcs of London. England.

The writer, representing the British Internal Combustion 11.n- grne Manufacturers Association.

says that. the only engine which can scientifically or technlcaty be called a "Diesel engine" ls an arr injection engine ln whlcn, on the system of Dr. Diesel, oll fuel combustion proceeds at. approxi- mately constant pressure. Sucr engines he asserts, dlcd a. natural death some years ago.

The modern compression-ignit- ion all engine. on the other hand, 1s a direct.‘ descendant. of the l-{ornsby Akroyd engine which ilas been designed. tested, proveu and put. into commercial produc- tion as for back as 1890. before Dr Dteselb German patent. had been published (January, 1893) ard five years before he had produced a working oll engine.

The writer goes on to point. out. that. the compression ignition engine of today has all the ea- sentlal characteristics of the Ak- royd engine: direct. injection ~11 fuel. introduction of combustible fuel into a charge of air under compression. lgnltlnn by compres- sion and pilot. ignition.

He concludes: “To polni. this our 1s not to disparage 1n any Way the work of Dr. Rudolph Diesel which work undoubtedly develop- ed the hlgh compression of aha combustion elr and 1 ‘ " PM attainment of hlgh thermal effic- lcncles. It. 1s merely to demon- strate the complete lnvalldlly of the contention that. the modern compression ignition oll englnc was not. pioneered 1n Britain. I‘. was. in fact, the slmplldl-Y and hlgh economy of the United Klug- aom compression lgnltlon engine that forced 1L‘; adoption on the Continent and elsewhere and ha:- Lencd the demise of that. 611311.!‘ which could properly be described. as t-he ‘Diesel Engine’ ".

Faith 1n Britain's ability to supply aircraft suitable for clvll svlatlon services has been affirm- ed by Mr. Nash. New Zealsud’: llflnlster of Finance, awarding to u Wellington report. ._

While conceding that. Britain was "having u bud spell" with re- gard to oommerclsl olrcreft. Mr. Nash predicted that. 1n the fu- ture she would once ogsln be well ahead. He added "We wont. to go on and the Government plans r. g0 on using everyhhlng 1t eon that. 1e British and to ovoid s grlve toward what-ls celled the superior plane from other coun- tries." New Zeolund must. support. u. the llm1t.—nat only bonus: of the dollar ohortoee -tho principle of obtaining everything lt. could 1n United Kingdom supplies. It was not. correct, sold Mr. Nash. tlrut. because of the mavens“! the USA. had during the wer In building transport elrcroft. while Brftsln won building fighting str- oraft, Amer-loo would be unesd for oll time 1n transport. olroroft.

COULDN'T KIIP SHACK

VANOOUYB-(wl-A ti-reor- old woman who built. o pecking- csse check 1n the bush near here hoe been persuaded to leer her home down. Polloe investigating found the shock did not meet.

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Farms For Britons

(Woodstock Sentinel-Review

Now the election 1s over we are wetting to hear the details of Ontario's proposed pcrtlclpctlon 1n the "gigantic" plan to supply some 100.000 acres of farm land 1n tlrls Province to the British Govern- ment.

A). the tall end of the election campaign. Col. T. L. Kennedy. minister of agriculture, let 1t be known that he had received o communication from "a hlgh attic-- ial 1n the Brlllsh Government." seeking to have Ontario supply 100.000 acres of suitable farm lend 1n a plan proposed by Britain to help offset. a world food shortage during the next ten years.

Colonel Kennedy tossed out the hint. that the plan was similar to one proposed for Australia and then closed the door. Further consideration. he explained, must welt until after the election.

It would be interesting to know why the "hlgh government offic- lal's" proposal was made to a pro- vincial government. by-passlng the Federal Government. which has in the past. made contracts with Brit- oln for supplying produce of Con- aciien farms.

One would also llke to know how this proposal, 1f carried out. ls going to affect our farm econ- omy, which has tn n large meas- ure been geared to food contracts with Britain. What about the prob- lem of farm labor for these 100.000 acres?

Still Greatest Carrier

(Stratford Beacon-Herald»

More than 11.000000 tons of British mercantile shipping were sunk during lhe recent. war. and latest. official report. from Landon l; that the nation 1s only 1.000000 tons short. of pro-war tonnage. In addition to building for them- selves, ttle British have built. great numbers of ships fnr foreign countries. and if they had not done that. they would have been past their normal amount. All this has been accomplished 1n less than three years, and evcn gran-t- er progress has been held back for lack of steel. But the steel- workers are doing n great. job. They are stend-lly producing more than 15.000000 tons a year. which surpasses all previous nut-put. ex- cept. for One year during the war. The new British freighter-s are far finer t-han any built. before the war. Instead of the 5.000 to 10-000-lon “tramp? that played the Seven Seas. many of the new freighter; are 15.000 to 20.000 tons. and have the graceful lines of an Atlantic liner. more comfortable accommodation for the crows. far better equipment. for handllnfl cargo to enable faster loading and unloading-wand much greater speed. The result. will be more vovsges 1n less time. Britain retains her position n5 the frreatest carrier nation of the world, and 1n that respect Britan- nia will continue to nlle the waves.

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1n drifts» like snow, the dolsles stand beside the mowing.

and 1o the corners afnhe fence, where gross is growing,

their lance-like petals olustely white thelr gold disks showing.

They are so coamon. people peas them hardly glancing.

Were they asrare as hhey are fair. enchenclng

thelr charm, who would ignore u vision so entrancing‘!

—Susan Sharp in Kansas Cll)’ Poetry Magazine.

Small Help To Maritime: i

(Ottawa. Citizen)

The Maritime Provinces ma)’ draw some comfort from the recognition of the national Lib- eral convention that. because of hlgh freight rates. lnadrqum highways and unfavorable trade policies they have not. prospered as they should. They wlll ap- plaud the statement that. Cah- adlans 1n all provinces should en- joy equal opportunities. But there ls little comfort. for them 1n the vague measures that the con- vention put. forward.

Certainly as the party's resolu- tion suggests. decentralization of industry “should be encouraged" and cheap electric power “should be mode available." But. by whom, when, and how? The reconf- mendatlons on freight. rates, transportation. and trade treaties may be regarded as general od- vlce to the government. but the only point. specifically endorsed ls the principle of freight rate con- cesslons.

Yet. what the Marltlmes need ls o real program of Federal assist.- oncc and investment to bring greater prosperity to a region that ls not poor 1n human or material resources. The recently-authorized mershland drainage old ls a use- ful mecsure. So would be the bridging of the Strait. of Genso. Mr. John R. MacNlchol, M.P., has urged the Dominion to offer s lhlrd of the cost of new coal-us- ing power plants. The Dawson Report. af 1945 recommended pub- llc investment to improve the transport and marketing of flsh, and said Federal aid ln public housing would bring Tenormous benefits" to the Maritime econ- omy.

But-the corfventlon did not. draft. n program for the Marltimes. The government has none. Industry will not. decenlrallze itself. and even n series of measures to en- courage lts growth 1n the Marl- llmcs would be unlikely to have great effect. without s counter- offenslve against. the economic forces that have worked for cen- tralization. In thls effort. regional planning would be needed and the principle of public service would have to be invoked against the desire for maximum profits. Such an effort. brought. Canada war- time economic success but from 1t the Liberal Party is 1n full re- treat.