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“The Strongest Memory is Weaker The! ' the Weakest Ink.‘ .

FRIDAY, JULY 12, 194C

Bad News Indeed

Our readers will learn with extreme concern, on the authority of Messrs. Douglas and Mac- Naught, .\l.l’., that there is no prospect of the new car ferry being read-y before Decan- bcr. This means that in all probability it \vill be the summer of I947 before the S.S. Ahcgtvt-it gels into service. What are our farin- ers zmd industrialists to do in the interim? flihcrc is a lremctidotis amount of freight wait- ing transshipznctlt t0 the Province, also the pros- pects of an exceptionally lteavy harvest, the products of which will have to be exported. \\'e are to be left at the mcrcy of the old Prince fidrtturd Island, which is in a far front satis- tory condition, and itiay at any time collapse, espccially when the Province gels icebotmd.

The powers that be, locally and federally. will have to make spcCial efforts to get immediate relief, instifai‘ as bringing freight from the n1ainland__is coitcernetl. ft is imperative that all our stipplies should be landed here before the close of navigation, as it is too risky to depend upon the old car ferry with any surety that she will answer the purpose. A suggestion was ntade at one lime that the Scofia which was act- ing as substitute for the Prince Edward Island should be retained until the traffic on both sides had been cleared up. If the Scotia has already been sent elsewhere, some other boat should be immediately obtained. It is for our Provincial Government, hoards of trade, city and town councils and all concerned to take joint action in making certain that we are not left in the lurch during the coming fall and winter.

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Liberal Comment

The Halifax Chronicle (Liberal) seems to be of the same opinion as the Opposition leaders in Parliament in viewing the Ilsley budget with grave suspicion. It says:

Any idea that the Minister of Finance pro- duced his recent Budget in a mood of absent- mindedness is dispelled by the succession of corollaries attached to it. The Budget is not the product of ineptitude or financial war- mindedness. It stands revealed as a piece of strategic policy directed to the aim of bludg- eoning the proiittccs into agreement with the federal government.

The offer to give the provinces a local option on grants DfOpOSQd at the recent Dominion-Pro- vincial Conference is a. clumsy tactical error. A1; thc best it promises to divide Canada in two -—-lhe rich provinces and the paupers. At the worst it would make perpetual pensioners of the people of Saslcatcheuian, Alberta and the Xlaritinmg and reduce their pfOViflClfll ZOVEFH‘ ments to the status of tnunicipal councils.

Almost universal opinion has branded the of- fer a (lfinliflilslfilllfllllli big-stick policy, design- ed in the first place to throw the oclium for the failure of the DOIHiHlOIPPTOVlIlCiQl Confer- gpgg m, n, ilk- provinces, and secondly, to divide lhc provinces in the interests of federal policy.

That opinion will undoubtcdly be strengthen- ed by revelation of the most recent action of Ottawa in abolishing Regional Reconstruction Qtutncils throughout thc country. The spced with which this action was taken, and the ex- tremely short fllllc JlllOWCCf the Councils lo wind up their busincss, emphasize that the Budget is nothing more than a political expedient de- vised to force lhc hands of the hesitant uro- vinccs.

Oisquieling Report

Before his suicide llitlcr abandoned ..... |nnfl of the total destruction of the German slate with his own, according to the Intertialional Committee for the Study of European Q11!!- tions. This group, which includes many emin- cnt British public mcn like Sir William Beve- ridgc and Lord Vansittarl, has just issuftl a report to show that Gcrmany} war potential, as a result of Hitler's decision, is greater now than it was in 1938. '

Germany killed 15,000,000 people in neigh- boring countries during the war, the committee says, but emerged with an increase of 7 1-2 per cent in its own population. Even under the Potsdam formula for German disarmament, the committee believes, Germany wlll retain suffi- cient heavy industry lo build the armaments of another war.

Many goods like dyes which can be used for armament purposes are already rolling 0hr of German factories. Just before the surrender, it ‘is stated, Germany sent 652 of its best experts Into neultalcountries to work for German re-

.vival, lust as Hitler's agents worked abroad

with such aficcess before the recent war.

All this, says the committee, is in accordance with a plan, laid down by Hitler on March 28, I945. Up to then he hatf planned to let the Belch sink into total destruction if it could not maintain its conquests. *But his armaments miniafer,_l)r. Albert Spear,“ finally convinced hinmhu Germany éould suffer defeat and yet

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The committee fears that Hitler's deathbed conspiracy may have gone further than the western world realizes. It says it has informa- tion suggesting that a number of German of- ficers, oaptured by Russia during the war, are now “working beyond the Urals helping to train new Russian armies. The possibility that the Kremlin may contemplate harnessing Ger- man nationalists in a Greater Germany for utilizing the Germans in the future was one of the great unspoken thoughts among the dele- gates to the last foreign ministers’ conference," the committee's report says. ~ Whatever truth there may be in this analysis of Hitler's plans and Germany's present condi- tion, the German problcm is much more com- plicated than this latest report suggests. While the suppression of German armaments is ccr- tainly the basis of British and United States policy, it is equally clear tltat permanent im- poverishment and chaos in Germany, the in- dustrial heart of Europe, will not make for permanent European peace. The problem is to revive the productive power of Germany, and hence the prosperity of Europe, without per- mitting it to be used as a basis for future ag- gression.

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it The City Council are to have an innings tn- night, with Mr. Ainsworlh of the Maritime Light and Power Co. bowling.

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The Dominion Government has entered the steel business; hope it will prove ntore success-

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Canada has received an invitation lo the Peace Confcrencc, and Prime Minister Mac- kenzie‘ Kitig intimates his intention of being in attendance, leaving for Paris in a fortnight. He has long anticipated the honour of a scat

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Figures published by Britain's Registrar Gen- eral show that during the first quarter of this year about 17,000 more babies were born in England and Wales than in the last quarter of 1945. For the current quarter it is Esti- mated that there may be as many as 40,000 more births than in the first quarter of this ‘year. This steep rise scents likely to continue into the third quarter. w e a w:

Mr. I. M. Macdonncll (PC-Muskoka-On- tario) told the House he believed the govern- ment was waving a “big stick" at the provinces by offering a takc-it-or-leave-it agreement in place of the one turned down at the Domitiion- Provincial conference last May. There is more truth than poetry in this, but what can the pro- vinces do under a Federal dictatorship?

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Approximately 1,700 farm workers were moved to Ontario between ‘lune I3 and Iuly 2 f0 help in the hay harvest there. Arrangements were made under the Dominion-Provincial farm labor agreement. "The workers were trans- ported free to Ontario, and received their re- turn tickets for $5. It is expected that Ontario farm workers will be going to Saskatchewan later on to assist in ltarvestitig operations.

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Robert Slcvcnsoit, Scottish civil etiginccr, (lied this date, i850; wits the leading authority on lighthouse construction and improved lighting systems; a standing monument to his memory is the Bell Rock lighthouse 0n the Forfarsliire coast of Scotland, the stibjccl of Soulhcy's bal- lad “The Inchcape Bell." He was the father of Robert Louis Stcvensom the novelist.

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‘It all depends on the standpoint. Mr. T. L. Ward, Wflllflg lo This Timcx, London, says: “The Parliamentary Sccrtziry to tlic Ministry of Agriculture stated in Parliament recently that the amount of oats issued to racehorses in April was 556 Ions, which was coilsirlcrcd a com- paratively small quantity of grain to divert front human cnnstunption. llc did not say, how- evcr, that it would have bcen an adequate grain ration for 300,000 hens which, in April, would have laid at least 6,0<x>,0o0 eggs."

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The Attstralian Scrviccmetfs Rcliabililatioti Department had a poser to answer when a joc- key who had increased his iveight from 9 lo 12 stone while he was in the Army, applied for medical reducing treatment. The ruling was:-— “A jockey who has finished his apprentice- ship is regarded a5 sclf-etnployed, so he can ap- ply for a loan to start a business if he cannot return to racing. We would not regard him as entitled to medical treatment to reduce his present wcighl. His overweight would be re- garded as natural and no! a war-caused dis- ability.”

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The Ottawa ‘correspondent of The Tune London, ltas this to say of Prime Minister King's wartime regime: “For the first time a complete- Canadian Army served overseas, tak- ing part with the Canadian Navy and Air Force in important engagements. At home the coun- try's economy was revolutionized undue-policy that correlated taxation, borrowing, restrictions on wages and the control of prices, and enabled the Government to meet the huge wiir costs without more than a modest rise in the cost of living. These achievements arg symptoms of the inner strength developed under Mr. Mac'- kenzie King. Nationally strengthened, the country is now becoming more firmly emblish- ed in the international field, and this has been marked by a great expansion of the diplomatic corps in Ottawa. This expansion emphasizes Canada's international status but does not de- tract from hernllegiance to the Commonwealth. ‘The symbol of Bfitlsh unity is to be found ln the British Crown’, (said Mr. Mackenzie Klntf when Canada became entitled to send her own representative: abroad). ind the security °l the Crowtrrem 1n a throne which l: broad-

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Notes By The Way

The colonel and hi: lady who stole the fools are returned t0 Frankfurt. to stand trial for bad tlmlru; Had they waited for 50 years 1t might have been arc e- ology-(Btratford Beacon-He .

We used Io wonder-until we became used to lt~at seeing girls making up Lhelr faces 1n public, and now we are beginning to be- come accustomed to seeing young marks comblne out the zocks tr. public We eve-r no food (mg oung fellow me other night pup.

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The robin depends on its perm; of hearing to catch worms By hopplng over the ground, ll jgrs the earth, wrouslng Mr, WomVs curiosity. and moves him to inves- tigate The won: can mar lit womfs movements and 1s ready to pounce when 1t appears -un tne surface Weeklv Star.

A teacher should be. able in buy books. 80 to travel Ln her holidays and 1n gen- eral live the life qt a cultivated person Teachers. particularly of very small children, should lava a rich and varied knowledge of life. people. Science and art. some 0f our public school teachers lack these things let us reflect that they are what we have made them. ‘Ilhe remedy 1s to give them more money. In the larger com- munities the scale of payment 1s good and even generous. but 1n cur rural schools 1t ls still too low. -Psberborcuzh Examiner.

Two hours of radio for twenty- five cents for hotel guests 1s offer- ed by a receiving set. being manu- factured by a leading radio mak- er. The coin operated sets are be- fmz specially made for use 1n ho- tel rooms where they are being installed as rapidly as produc- tfon permits. When peak pro- duction is reach-ed. over 8.000 re- ceivers a month will be bullt. ‘The sets are similar 1n appearance to hie-model table radio receivers. the major dlfTerence being a coin mechanism on the tun where the ZS-cent pieces are inserted. The guest can turn the radio off and on untll he frets his full t-wo hours’ worth of entertainment-Market-

ing. Toronto,

Having been In Edinburgh and other parts of scotlarid fur some considerable time I feel that as an educated young lady from the south I have hau an opportunity of getting to know the ways and customs I Ihlnk the women 101x here have a much sterner nature than those in the south Discip- line 1n the home at any rate. is much stricker. and mothers seem to believe tn unlshment. the strap or tawse be ng used to deter and correct. In the south of n.2- land the young people do not ave such stern treatment and I. person- ally. was never spanked Is 1t that mothers m Scotland have little sense of humor, or is lt- thc stern nature of the people‘! -.°. Letter in Edinburgh Scotsman.

Chauncey M. Depew once relaf- ed how a certain young Ilmn got. a start in llfe by sc m; up an "only" box, The Chrl fan Science Monitor recalls. .I.ll0 this box the young man and his wife dropped all the small places of money they would otherwise have spent. for thin-gs that were "only a dime," or "only a quarter " cr “only a half-dollar," and so on. AIM as a result they presently found themselves with a thous- and dollars to invest. Mr. Depews little story inspired the setting up of manv other "only" boxes.

The search for opportunity vrhlch has taken Cattadfans across the border has not ended with the war. It will not end until Canada can provide within her boundarles opportunities 1n all fields equal to those oflered by the United States. A comparison of populations. of facilities, lndf- cafes this will not be ln the near future and may. 1n fact never come at all. Cruel as the loss may be, it 1s somethlnz uulch Canada has so far survived. She W111 con- tinue lo survive 1t. ~— Wlnnlpeg Free Press.

We have never quite understood whv an industry which seemed to keep the clvlllan market fairly well supslled with shirts during the war utnfle also devoting itself quite largely to the manufacture of shirts for military wear cannot now betzin- to supply the harcst. needs of the ctvlllau consumers. Nor do we bezln to understand how Iona the Prices Board hopes men will be "patient" under a sit- uatlcri ivhlch ls steadily growlng worse instead of showing any sign of becoming better. If a delegat- fcn of men reduced to appearing in pu-bllc 1n their underclolhlng waited upon the probably well- shlrted administrators at Ottawa -—we once heard of one of them who bought a dozen shirts at once when ne was also adfnonishfng people not to hoard-perhaps we would begin lo secure some action. n-Broclcvllle Recorder and Times.

One inescapable fact has emery- ed from the recent plethora of violent crime ln Winnipeg and the nefalnborlmz comm time. and that 1s the part that liquor has played In lending up to robberies. unac- countable stabbing; and murder.

violence often- htu been-a drinking party. not. a qufet drlnk for zocl abllltvfis sake but a first-class binge 1n which some of the par- ticipants elther became violent or lost track of events. A room stud- ded with empty bottle: became the settfne for a crime. Drink or sex boo often trot into the plcture some place. This condition must have impressed itself on the oublu: ven- erallv end the cu-‘eouent edbt-r- IM elect on the commurillv should Jud to e re-ex-mltialfun t»: f dual album. - Winnipeg

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Canadas census o! 1041 recorded 1.328,489;Ilngle women. 15 year: of age or er and 2,391,418 married women flew-res whim 1m. much to do with consideration of the question whether women should work outside the home. The art lcle continues in t: "Some of the prejudices are med upon ,. su ion that mm u; unalter- aby superior to women 1n every 111a of activity. It ‘t; particularly c urged that the woman worker ss serlo-ua about working. less efficient less business-like, less m- otiormlly stable and too Jkely- to get married just a: soon as she 0mm useful 1n the factory, office or school On the other hand 1t is argued that women have teamed in a matter of a few which were 1n men’: pr ince for centuries and

vale prov- thnt they the amenities of working. for personnel remarked that women have made offices more habitable. ‘Phefr in- stinctive reaction on entering the usual office 1s to put pictures on the walls and flowers on desks because that tpend most of lhelr days in this place and see r10 reason whv l1 should lcok 11kt- a ptinilfllllify.‘ _ '

Lord Northcliffe declared 1n one of his frequent emphatic mccnents that women have no sense of re- s nstblllty unless frlghzen t em and Field Montgom- ery refused to requests that. he accredit newspap- erwomen to hts on the Con- tlnent though some of tne best eyewitness accounts of conditions in released countries were being writ.- tien by overseas women {lournallsts-

“ his leads to consideration of the mucn-advertued ‘battle of the sexes’ Ifl which men are excrclsed to prevmt women getting tsem and their base of operations outreach- men by the very elements wh h are se down by philosophers as women's weaknesses It not. logical that. im otherwise modem marrwoman situation should be dellfcted as that of a medieval or even Victorian lady dependent fc-r her sustenance and safety upon the favour of a chlvalrous gentle- man. On the other hand is ft logtc- al to suppose when men for cent- urles have taken toward women an attltude of chivalry yielding them every advantage and form of pro- tection that. upon entering business women can at: on? lay aside the habit of expecting avours mf men? (he secretary when asked: ‘Do you mean to sav that girls come Into business demanding equality of 0p- portunlty lntellec ual reccgnltfon and pay and 1n addition requiring, deference according to an old code? answered without a trace of hesit- ation: ‘Surely; wiry not?‘ contrarl. wise some women enter business with a "chip on their shoulders suspecting lttle acts of cnlvalrlv intent and looking with a. jaundiced eye on overtures for equality of work as either (l) acarvated by ‘ulterior motives‘ or (2) prompted bv an at- tézlmpf to gel more work out. uf

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After ccmmentlng on the ad- vantage of cooperation between the sexes the BTUCIB takes up wo- men's demands-tot equality. "One of the first; ‘sharlngs’ to be consid- ered ls that of reward for wor‘; Many women's organizations sub- scribe to the prittclple that wage rates for woman should be the same as for men lncluolng the entrance

ally unfair to pay one worker i‘; lower wage than another for sub-

thls it is said that men's wages are hlgiher because Ihev support fam- llles but today u large percentage of employed women also su dependents; ln fact the young u married man usuall assumes less financial responslb lity the home than does his sister. Since the basis of pa. cnt. 1n this coun- try is not. n. ‘amily wage but a wage for the work done 1t i5 argued that fniectlng difference of sex tr: yusfffy ower scales“? illogical.

“A list occupations open to wmnen lncl des nearly the whole alphabet from accountancy to zn- logy. The United B\l'l8S.DBpBl‘t- men: of Labour has lleted ‘.050 ln- custrlal occupations out of 1,930 as suitable for women and an addi- tional 350 m; ‘practically suitable’. Much of the dmrge 1n ace lnbll- ltv of women in lndustw ‘a ue to wise management which 1.»; con- centrating on lift-mg conditions of work to the needs of the workers, and 1s realizing more and more that defmees ln execution may more than umke up for tack of strength".

After surveying the ltlon of women in qffces. facto s domest- lc service and on fume the article