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"The Strongest lllemury l8 Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

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~Thc lasipnrtant Thing"

In .\ .|.~.~..~~..»ii n. ifiniiaiiiciil last week, Prinlc _\li1|{~,,1‘ ,\. ~..tw:..it- l\lil;1 said it is a mistake to Uslllllhlv iTit- (illllvuill of >C|'\'lL'C Elm“ b)’ the ' llit'lllii.‘l'> are slting in their In... .:. . .. .\r.d h: ziddtti: "It's n0: ihc lungzh hi llliic tin-y are seated; it's what hon- uurzihle incziiiiurs say in the time they are stand- ing. Tim‘. i,- the important thing."

\\t' trim-i 11ml our l>lllllfl representatives will dug, ,,,,-,,- , \\l|1'ii.~. 'l'hc_v sccni to have agifvl all gllilllg u!) the assumption that they should ho >ccn nntl nut heard at Ottawa, that so long zis ilivy were in attendance every d3)’. 11w], mu,» .1. nut‘ representatives was discharg- vtl. 'l“h.-.i ntrllls ztiso to be the attitude of their puny lift\.~, nhich recently chided a. member from lilliililCl‘ Province fOr seeking "a little cheap publicity" by getting up and speaking on our behalf, l1" hot-lung mum were a virtue, our re- prcsciilniiu-s from QJIICCILS and King's would indeed be models for all time to come. But, alas, it's “not the length of time they are seated" that counts, it's "what they say in the time they are standing." Judged by that standard-and it's Prime Alinistcr King who prescribes it—-what s washout our so-called spokesmen at Ottawa have provsnl

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__________________ Quebec Conservative Prospects

In s. keen analysis of the political situation in Quebec, Mr. Austin F, Cross in The Finsncisl Post nachos this conclusion:

There src thus about ten Gffersnt groups altogether, and st least one of these oups could again be sub-divided. Quebec is filling spsrt like s. frost-heaved mosaic. ,

The curious thing is that in pro-Brakes Conservatives, and the Progressive Conservatives of post-Winnipeg don't seem to lisve noticed this. Their greatest failing lppelrs to be to ignore Quebec perennially, incised of realizing that Quebec is the only hope, he sole reed to

power. lstsslookstthsbisssrybeelss. lirJdm A. Macdoaiold got into power-end stayed there --becsusc he could win snd hold Quebec. When Iaurisksme along, be started telling Quebec rom inept bends a HM“, Tdseflpoofl, Jewell and Topper. lsrijTywsbssderkldQllbeclnkislsip pediet. be Cosisorvotives themselves perhaps paid sum mention so Henri Bourssss, yet wososibisi-ioelderstfistil-isyssep into ' is: x911, Bonuses split ebec, spilled , and spoiled the door for Borden. c every election till 1930. .R.B.Bssmett. Hsksdno ' ' sdvocssy, be hsd nsds Quebec

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l" pitifully few is 1940.

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isles s genius so sss list Iii thing

orbs both wmys. The Lbenls m basking up,

bile the Conservatives are just getting to-

This inert Bracken looks Ike s natural.

0d I7 lists from King

_ 93o mlde s. turnover of 54, yet

Conservative rmjority was not even 5o.

Consider then svhat Quebec did for Mr. Bennett, In s word, it elected him.

Now there is every rssson so prophqly time In Liberal perky will further divide, nther than smalgamate in Quebec. Indeed, governments usually tend to disintigcrate, and that process is accelerated during a war. What more nstura] then to assume that the Quebec Liberals, now to sll intents end purposes headless, will slowly slide into irreconcilable factions? That may not be what is going to happen, but there are many who are predicting just that thing.

There seems to be something lucky for the Tories in the B's. First Borden, then Bennett, snd now Bracken? To Bracken we must still suffix s question mark,

Public Health Staffs

C Zkecording to Dr. J. J. Hssprty, lleslth ser- vices director of the Department of Pensions and National Health, all the provinces except Prince Edward Island and Quebec are below the mini- mum of public health personnel considered ab- solutely essential.

The public health committee of the Canadian Medical Procurement and Assignment Board is making a survey tn ascertain the "absolute, minimum requirements" of public health per- sonnel as part of the Board's nation-wide health survey. When this survey is completed the Board may be able to act on recommendations being made that public health doctors, nurses Ind other personnel be frozen in their jobs. D.~.

Fred Jackson of Winnipeg, deputy minister of health for Manitoba, is in charge of the public health survey for the four western provinces; and Dr. John Phair of Toronto, Chief Medical Officer of the Ontario Department of Health, is in charge in the central and eastern provinces.

Nova Scotia is in a bad state due to the war, Dr. Heagerty reports. In the provincial hos- pital for mental diseases with 500-bed capacity, the onlv medical man on the staff is the medi- cal superintendent. The Rockfeller Foundation survey showed that Halifax's death rate has risen from 14.5 in 1937 to 17-2 l" 1941 and i5 almost 45 per cent higher than for the rest of Nova Scotia.

New Brunswick had ten health districts with eleven medical health officers, but has lost five of these physicians and has had to merge sev- eral districts which mcans doubling up the work and cutting efficiency. Prince Edward Island has had little reduction; not one of its tiarcc‘ medical men and staff of I2 was eligible for military service.

The shortage in Quebec is comparatively slight but in Ontario the shortage has been so very great in every ficld that it has become ne- cessary for one health officer to do the work of two. It also has been necessary to train health nurses to do work formerly done by medical offitcrs, such as blood testing, and so oil.

Jiecn greatly increased due to the war. In Sas- lcatchewan the enlistment of rural men has been very heavy. In Alberta only five health officers are left of the nine who lnolcctl after the nine diffcrcnt health imits. Nurses in outlying dis- tricts of Alberta are- giving medical trczitmcnt because there are no doctors, even in adjacent areas. By December of last ycar 212 physicians had left Alberta since the outbreak of war; there are three hospitals in Alberta with no doctor left in the immediate (lislrict, one of them may have to be closed because the near- est doctor is forty miles away. The situation in British Columbia is also very bad in the out- lying districts.

Dr. Ileagerty culphasizcs that there always is a possibility of s serious outbreak of disease if public health staffs are so depleted they are un- ablc to do essential work. Such necessary duties include testing and chlorination of water ser- vices to urban populations, sanitary inspections, supervision of milk supplies, and control meas- ures to prevent the spread of diseases such as the measures taken in the West to detect and control bubonic plague and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which have been reported in southern Alberta.

- EDI IURlAl NU I ES-

Thc Rid‘ Cross implies red blood and ready ' t’ f ed. kelp in i o no‘ ' ' ‘l ' Next week the Legislature will have opened in annual session, with a lot of more or less deserving members hungering after the loaves snd fishes of the Department of Public Works left behind by the new Senator now in Ottawa. e s m s ‘I

Are the powcrs-fhat-bc pressing for a new car ferry? Remember the war has little chance of being over next winter, or the next, or in all probability in 1946. Where will we be then with the present steamer in the condition she is new in?

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John Wesley, English religious leader and fmndor of Wesleyan Methodism, born this dsy 1703; organization began as local societies under the Church of England but ultimately Wesley having been excluded from Anglican pdpits he merged the societies into s Church and started to ordain ministers; the new body grew and suspended tremendously, taking s strong hold of U.S.A. Protestantism where, st thst time, the Baptists were the principal com- petitors of the Anglican Church; Wesley's preaching, scsl and power of popular appeal were enormous; he died in 1791: "Cleanliness is, indeed, neat to godlinsss."

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Notwithstanding s frec and critical parlia- ment, Prime Minister Churchill continues to en- joy the confidence of the British electorate. Lady Apslcy, Conservative, has won the Bristol Cen- tral parliamentary by-clection caused by the death on active service in the Middle East of her husband, Lord Apsley, also s. Conservative. She polled 5,867 votes against 4,308 for Miss Jennie Lcc, Independent, 830 for John McNair of the Independent Labor Party, and 258 for F. H. Dunn, Independent. Both McNair and Dunn forfeited their deposits. The Bristol Ccn- tral constituency contains some of the worst blitsed srsss of England. Fifty per cent of the original voters have been forced by the Ger- man fury to move away from their homes. Hence the vote was far smaller than in the gen- srsl election of i935 when Lord Apslcy, Con- servstivs, polled 15,774 votes to 14,258 for J. J. Taylor, Labor

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men snd women who are playing prominent roles in the field of education the Montreal Gazette says Rev. Dr. Leslie Pidgcon, has for many years been actively concerned with the cause of education not only in Quebec but in other parts of the Dominion as well. Born in' New Richmond, Que, the grandson of the

Island, Dr. Pidgeon received his education in New Richmond school, Queen's University, Kingston, and at the Presbyterian College in Montreal. Dr. Pidgeon, who has for s. number of years been s member of the Protestant Com- mittce, was one of the founders of the Nat- ional Council of Education. At one time he served on the McGill Corporation, and on thc board of the Theological College, Winnipeg. At present he is s trustee of Queen's University, vice-chairman of fhc board of the United Theo- logical College, a member of the board of Divin- ll." 11-1". and president of the Religious Educa-

tion Counci] of Quebec,

llotes By The Way

The fail of the great port of Tri- po 1 came more quickly than we had any right to expect. Field Marshal Rommel did not even make a. brief

use for station identification. — he New Yorker.

Ag time goes on and rationing he- cume tougher, it is believed the spratsts, Jack and the missus will be pretty well relieved of their respec- tive allergies. -Wlnn‘42eg Tribune.

Many people arc not only mysti- fled but greatlv concerned over the growing number of strikes. With Canada engaged in the greatest war eflort in its not very lung history, giving every spare dollar to help Lnance the stupendous bills, and wo-

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FARMERS’ APPRECIATION

Slr.—-Piease swept s much d0- 322'“. n: °' ;%.‘i’°-°l§“°” ‘°' sp e way the farmers’ cause in yep: editor!- ais. We farmers are “Wilt!!! l,“ °“"‘°§‘.°"°‘ “R.ll2‘i.“$'l.'i'..i‘."uili an IBDSPO ufifg, ppnntmrmn our increased C OI] - Ural]: puwcIi-s of ulslon seem at times to be fut s and thus W9 are almost st the Int W110" '0

‘men joining in a number of cup-

seems swrangc that labor should be so resdcx, and even upsetting war schedule to the extent that the

ed, which must give a good deal of comfort. to the enemy. --Par1.s Star.

,. . . . la lhe reduction Iii hllllllltlllil has not been so thin,» “m, me nob}, 10mg- in great, but the (lcmztnd on the health services has iUllffir "11150 Wm‘ liilklw"?! "5

Small voice." p0lliis out that the mod-am phrase, “Nu-.:. tu -_," is

real y old-fashioned. He opened his;

Grew] e Diary to quote, at page 481,- the Lord High Chancellor of Eng- nd n5 saying that it was “nuts to the they were. It 1s astonishing how much of modem slang is merely a re- vival of slang used long ago. The phrase, "thcrea nosorlv at home," meaning vacuity of mind, goes back at; least to the poet Pope, and since he nuts nn UIIUCQSIICFIIKC thief of deft phrases, possibly much farther. The opening lines ill act V. £08116 IV of Henry VIII, flnd the porter and his man 1n an uproz-irious en- counter, during which the oddly con- temporary phrase "Mow ‘em “down" occurs. -Wiiinipcg Free Press.

Colonel Yohagi, military expert, tells the Japanese that Japan has weven more steps" to make victory certain: 1. Consolidate conquered countries. 2. Destroy the chungklng government. 3. Drive the British from India.4 Consolidate the Solo- mons and New Guinea. 5. Control Midway. Q Conquer Australia. 7. Occupy the remainder of the Aleut- ians. It reminds us, more than a little bit, of the lac" on the brook bank who, when flskCd how many fish he had, rcpiicri: "Wel, iavhcn I get the one that's fooling around my: hook, and two more, I'll have threeJK-Fkom the Minneapolis star- Jcumal,

As Herbert Morrison has again re- nfnded the United States, the Brit- ish peoples did not go to war for "Imperialism" but for a principle. We were not attacked, Canada, Aus- tralls, New Zenland, south Africa were not attacked, but. they rallied just the same to fight a. tyranny which threatened not themselves alone but the whoe world. What hope would there ltave been for the world ft there hzu} been no British Empire or if this Empire, lacking principle and a central will. had stood supine and lrresolute? -Lon- don Daily Mall

acltlcs both military and civil, it. the-

nioralc of the people is endanger-

John Kierun, In Ills cuiumn, “0nc'

would consider n- to nmvvlw the authorities to sot n. Personally I do not favor harsh critician as a general practice, but I sm on some occasions risking oven s reputation to try to force some action 1n re- gard oobythese pirpiallems thifimveve ‘srlel n0\v , prac a caper

5'0 vital to our tots! contribution in this war effort.

The farmers’ voice being develop- ed by the Federation of Agriculture ‘11 Canada seems to make a bright

‘IJl figrdthel futuacm an‘ as: iaice eveoped esx n a cur government will hear, I dohone that all classes ouacgple will receive

fair share s things svall-

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80' keep up your good work and together we may achieve. am. Sir, etc"

B. A. PROFIT‘!- Freetown, PEI.

LIVESTOCK SHIPPING

$lr,- The scarcity of cars for the transportation of DNXIUCQ of "ierv kind is so scuu that the transportation controller for ’Can- has taken g hand,

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llvesboc -hogs instance-It was originally

a. sxteen thousand lbs, or elg ty live hogs weighing two hundred »bs., each. After considerable agit- ation and representation on behalf of producers, this figure was n-

weight at final loading point. or be subject to whatever peireities the controller may im- nose, for failure to load‘ the u: to the capacity stipulated. This regulation may seem s bit atlng to fsnners snd shippers c. but it f, evidently considered gulztlon that effects our war e1- tremendously. and we should nil “lly w-vperate to the end drelshtugppce may be 0on- scrve ,a we eve inch for WhIOYIIIdIU have lgntrsclad. Farmers can nsslst

taln. I! each f

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few day's 1n ndillisliggu?’ ‘I281?! date. the number of head for w fch he requires shlppin

1.. the sixth in l series of brief. sketches of i

second Presbyterian minister in Prince Edward p

A one-limo Mics America“ has put

Hemisphere. the name has been placed on file. —Wlnnlpeg Tribune.

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What lies behind the whole sad. sordid sloiy (the (instruction 0f the French feet) with its redeeming end? How do the various protagon- lsts of this new French drama fit Lilo the picture? How much can Hit- ler save for his own use of the great Toulon naval base, not less, and per- haps more, Important for h’m than the ships that died? Whnt ls the meaning of his Wild letter address- ed to the wretched Pctatn? But the greater drama is enacted elsewhere.

sin and Tunisia and, most import- antly, in the air above them, 1n the

ply the battles. Tnmorrmv, as we are confident, in Italv, on the con- tinent of Europe, itself, invaded, broken, dosed with its own vlic medicine from east and by sll the outraged Allies and by all its tortured victims thirstlng for revenge. The beast 1s fn the cage. A dangerous beast capable of much mischief yet. A strong beast at bay who will yet maul his en- emies. But surely in the bolls st last, with few to help and none to pity. -bond0n Bunday Dispatch.

that the streets are, in n11 pro- babfllgv, flLed with criminals st 8-1110” In)! hour of the business day, shortly after the weather turned cold. s‘ friend made s. private in- vestiga on at lunch time, and cis- covered that out of seven per- 5011s at the table, six had un. wlttlnslv broken the law, when they limited their furnaces or fire- places. The seventh had a gas fur- nace and his hat was broken came

Julv 2. Under the

authority of the DLmIHlSITfll/O!‘ of used goods it ls provided that no person living in Montreal, Toronto, Hamil/ton or 5t. Catharlnes, or wlvlt-hln 50 miles of those places, ‘shall wilfully destroy, damage, con. taminatc or throw away any basket. hamper. 0r orange box, except with

Today, on the battlefields of Rus- b“ workshops and shipyards which sup- a

and in Germany go

1t u s sobering thought to reflect ‘

fireplace 1s out of to

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on 00 pounds in the yours since. In I the central 0mm In case of selecting a Miss Western m“:

of making ments all along 1H8 mint, that mum loads. ‘This is An

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pick-up the line ffflm fold» will secure of mixi-

Bcginning March 1st, the 3.2.00 branches of the Chartered Banks of Canada, undertake another wartime service, namely Ration Coupon Banking. It is a vital part of the nation-wide rationing program

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I If you ore a merchant, iobber, wholesaler or oiher dealer receiving ration coupons from your customers, your bank stands ready to show you how to deposit or otherwise deal with the coupons you receive. The some applies if you

are a "quota-user." _ ~

It has nothing whatever to do with your regular bunk account, in which you deposit dollars and

draw cheques in dollars. -

It is purely a relationship between dealers and commercial banks. Ration Banking begins only after the consumer has used his coupons to

purchase rationed commodities.

The bunks’ iob is mainly of an accounting nature —aciing as an agent of the Ration Administra- tioh, Wartime Prices and Trude Board, under

carefully defined regulations.

Ration Coupon Banking relieves ihe Ration Ad-

ministration of the tremendous burden of hund- ling, verifying and accounting for used coupons with which consumers have obtained their supplies.

Q If you ore u consumer only, If in no way affects how much or how little of rationed commodities you receive. Banks do not issue ration coupons, nor do they have anything lo do with ihe ocluol

rationing of commodities.

B] tin’: important addition to tbs many wartime urvim’ tbqy pnfoms, tbs Cbarrqnd Bank: some tbs nation, facilitau businm, and seek to rave time and 837cm: to tbs country.

THE CHARTERED BANKS 0F CANADA

Ad No. 4501 — 5 cols. x 160 lines——-Specisl Advertisement Relessed to Newspapers March is: by Csnsdisn Bsnkers Association

divide their contrive W0 battles in an effort not to miss the nfckle per cwt. that one may Derchimce my more than the other. and thus the result may wen m“ mg} ‘$13’? CD12 as much en , what they wcpiid m: o"

as fifteen less than

means or rekcving u: shoal-gage situation.‘ We;

s‘ means o tin; mo“ mzlgmack to the ippcr for his ggfgfmk s In deference to I am. Sh‘. etc.

I. A. GILLIII

Redistribution

(Csnsdinn Press)

U der t so.“ cash?“ 53.3% f“ ‘IN

iiament ls to be rive rulesz- ' i. Quebec f5

revised according to r of 65 memggéipve s fixed num-

2. Each of the ofher wovinces is berlfbeflili h: number of “menu; some ro r on

its population a the pniiigber 86 bears to the population of Quebec;

3- If the computation of numbc of members for fractions!!! part

nsl be disressrded; al t5 m

the consent or bv order of the ad- ministrator." —The Printed Word.

Al lvns ls s bicyclist keeps bicycling he has no problems. But. 11¢ him D811! his bicycle someplace