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—Mur ' Dally (Founded in ills-ii Authorized as Second Class illinil, Post Office Department. Ottawa.

President, lnn A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. l. Burnett; Spay-Trans. (i. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. J. B. Burnett; Associate Editor.

Frank Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

DISONDAY, JANUARY is, i941

A Banker's Advice

A strong appeal for return to the practicebf the old-time virtues of thrift, Pilldellcf-‘r WWW and mutual help ls made by the _Hon. Es. L. Patenaude, president of the IPTOVIIICIDl Bank_of Canada, at the shareholders annuahmeeting held recently. Commenting on the incrooiéd business done by the Bank last year, Mr._ Pat- cnaude said that "however encouraging this re- port may be, it cannot hide from us problems which crop up in all parts of our country arid throughout the world. Conflicts,—economlc, political and otherwise—hove become both col- lective and formidable. No nation can feel it- self immune from the current unrest.

Specifically, Mr. Patenaude said it is esen- tial that there should be readjustment, balan- ced budgets, and retrenchment in jzullillc spending, Lighter taxation, lowered cost o IV- ing, and increasing value and yield for invest- ments would contribute to the birth of new in- itiative, and in molly quarters would stimulate the desire to practice economy and _to_sav_ed. The practice of thrift would mlnimlzfl. If if d‘ not abolish, the tendency now manifest lowflfd loading the State and the community with ob- ilgations which the individual himself right- fully should assume.

This is not a new PWWFW- f“ °‘" “ml EM economic problem; it is just tho old and tried remedy which it will be necessary f0 9°? b°°k to after all the panoceos foll-

In his financial statement Mr. J. U. Bayol’. general manager, reports that tho volume of business done by the Provincial Bank of Canada has been much more extensive than last yeai and the figures in the statement indifll" ‘I substantial increase under sevoral headings and an all-time high in some cases. ~

iir. King's Technique

Of Primo Minister Mackenzie King, B_ruc_o Hutcheson, a friendly Liberal writer, says this In the current issue of an American magazine:

"lt is hard for anyone olso to work h)‘ Mi’- King's method. Being a bachelor, ho hiss]!!! notion of fixed hours or family responsibilities. His ministers seldom see him except at the council table, none of them really knows him. no one calls him anything but Mr. King, and some of them detest him. l" l" "ll l"‘°"5- if" few of them ever crass him. For his method in- cludes a technique of slow or quick execution as the case requires. A gallant Defence Minister and idol of the nation, Col. .l. L. Ralston, W! fired like an office boy in tin P_I'"_¢"" 9f ti" whole cabinet during tho conscription crisis of tho war." _

This is not tho _way tho "WY W" 9"" out officially at the time, but Mr. Hutchesong- who is an associate editor of the influential Lib- ‘fol pqpgr, the Winnipeg Free Press—probably knows what he is talking about. It throw! (I "l" light on Mr. King's technique as a clock Md dagger man.

Abnormal Trado Film!

In his year-end review Hon. J. A. MacKiln- lion, Minister of Trade and Commerce, has giv- en an encouraging progress report on the state of Canada's trade. The figures for i946 are the largest on record for any peace-time year. The value of Canada's total trade, amounting ta $4,200,000,000, "is three times- as great as the average for the live years immediately preced- ing t e war."

. MacKinnon recognizes that this volume of trade is, in a sense, abnormal, for it arises from the demand for goods of allikinds from war-shattered countries; and also because a large port of these exports are financed by Can- ada in loans or export credits. These facts em- phasize Canada's necd to prepare for the com- petition thal will mark nornial peace-time trade. lt is encouraging that the trade department has been almost complct:ly reorganized for this task.

A significant item in Mr. MocKiniioifs ro- port dealt with imports. Never before has Can- ada imparted goods in this voIume-—their value is placed at $l,900,000,000——and again this should be part of the governemnt's policy of stimulating two-way trade.

British Farsi Exporlinost

The Financial Post notes a disturbing sim- ilarity between the farm control bill now before the British House of Commons and early notion- olization "measures in Soviet Russia. The liquid- ation of the independent Kulaks in tho USSR did not take place until years after the Rod rov- olution. But there was o very definite connoc- tion between that event ond tho complete form nationalization that followed later.

In tho current ‘British bill thoro is plenty of power to bring land and marketing iust as com- pletely under government control as say the

vornmont-ownrd postal or tolograph systems. armors can be dispossessed of their land if they fall to follow official recommendations, prices and lilies of production are rigidly fixed in odvonco.

This blll proposes to make permanent tho arbitrary authority granted tho govoriimont in wartime. No longor would the liidlvldiiol farm- or do lilo own planning, molio his own docloloii or to M“! land should grow and wlion pro- duce should bo sold. Instead all this oiiscutivo direction would lio tolioii ovor by some supor

ploitotion from the Rhine bridgehead.

‘bureau at London and orders issued through local boards.

lf these Planners are human and make mistakes then the mistakes would be on a national scale. No longer would there be the cushion of production by those who re- fuse to follow the general herd, a cushion which has saved nations from misery and sometimes starvation, when the majority proved wrong or ran into abnormally bad weather.

Guaranteed a minimum price far in ad- vance the natural tendency would be to concen- trate on the surest and easiest lines and in a year of favorable weather two or three times normal production might be the result. Costs would be staggering and most of the output un- wanted. The natural fluctuation of farm vol- ume from year to year would be dangerously aggravated. At the sarne time there would be no encouragement, indeed perhaps no permis- sion granted the individual farmers to experi- ment with new lines, without which there can be no progress.

- llD|TOR|AL NOTES -

_ A monopoly, without adequate auxiliary ser- vice, is somewhat of a menace, as we are lind-

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Members of Parliament are once more mak- ing tracks for Ottawa to be in readiness for the opening of the new session, which promises to be a hectic one.

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That newspapers are essential textbooks was recognized recently when the U. S. Government authorized the payment for newspapers used by students taking journalism courses under the G. I. Bill of Rights.

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John Scott, lst Earl of Eldon, died this date 1838 at the age of eighty-seven after a hectic career as an ultra loyalist politician and lawyer; he conducted the high treason prosecutions against Horne Tooke and others, and vehement- ly opposed the abolition of capital punishment for minor offences; his favourite maxim was "Quickly enough if safely enough." When he was resident Fellow of University College, Ox- ford, some of the under-graduates complained that the cooks had sent to table apple pie which could not be eaten. Lord Eldon ordered that the pio should be brought before him, but was informed the pie had been eatenf whereupon Lord Elgin gave judgment for the defence, say- ing to complainants: "You complain that the pio could not be eaten, but the pie has been eaten, and therefore could be eaten."

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Tho code names designating the principal operations in which the Canadian Army partici- pated during the recent war were as colorful as they were numerous. "Greenlight" was the landing on Kiska, "Husky" was the invasion of Sicily, and "Baytawn", the invasion of the "toe" of ltaly. Some were suggestive of the ”shape of things to come" and two examples were "Blockbuster," signifying the break through the Hochwald defences to the Rhine, and "PIunderQ which was the cods name for the Army's ex- "Gald- flake", to men who were in the know, was not a popular brand, but the move of tho lst Can- adian Corps from ltaly to Northwest Europe. However, the two which have become most wide- ly known since the end of war are "Gauntlet" and "Overlord." The first was chosen to cover all activities connected with the Allied landing on Sitsbergen and the second, "Overlord", was the call sign for the invasion of Northwest Eu- rope.

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To deprive a Scotsman of his oatmeal por- ridge is equivalent to sentencing him to die by slow starvation. Accordingly residents of the remote glens, who have enjoyed the traditional Scottish fare of oatmeal even if all else failed, now wonder how they are to manage under new rationing regulations. ln districts like Strath- don and Cargarff some families are nine miles from the nearest shop and in winter roads are blocked with snow for weeks at a time. ln the past, purchase of a boll (I40 pounds) of oat- meal in the fall provided a safeguard against hunger in the winter. Under rationing this represents 280 points and each is allowed only 32 points a month. Storekeeper Thomas Shand said he has known "families to be snowbound for l3 weeks. Before the war a common order for a family in a remote district was a bag of oat- meal, a bag of lloiir, a bag of salt, and I00 pounds of sugar.

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The rural Equipment Committee charged under the Monnet plan for French reconstruc- tion with tho modernization of rural France, estimates that it will need 36,750 million francs (at their I939 value 8l,l0l,500,000 OPP-l between now and i950 to carry out its program even without allowing for annual replacements. It is planned to spend 30 billion francs ($900,000,- 000) on machinery, particularly tractors. In pre-wor days France possessed 30,000 and pres- ent requirements are 250,000 tractors. The committee has set the mechanization of Z5,- 000,000 acres under cultivation as a reason- able objective. It is estimated that 30,000 trac- tors will be needed for heavy work, l00,000 for lighter work such as vine and fruit culturo and l00,000 for work such as hauling sending and mowing machines. Finally 20,000 tractors will be noodod for special work, particularly in the forests. Rural electrification would cost eight billion ($240 million) i939 francs and at the momont only about a thousand communes. re- main to be supplied with electricity or about 7 per cont of tho population. The committee estimates 3,500 million francs ($105,000,000) would bo noedod to build 1,200 obottoirs and to modernize 500 others and l,200_ millions for tho equipment of dairies and chooso factories. Tho committee hos reduced its rural liouslng program to two billion of francs (SQLNQMO) lnstood of the noodod I25 billion ($375,000,-

W) for the modernization of all dwellings. Tho most urgent task now consists of repairing the war damage.

llotss lly The Way

llhiinmettiylisoheptylasssiiio ll a. new-drug. said lo be a sovereign cure for coughing. But how could s man with n. cough manage to or- der if? —Edm0nfon Journal.

A woman of I07 expillns her long life as the result of gcod fcod, ex- crclso. regular hcurs and no wor- ries. Wllti a150, it is probable, good Judgment in the selection cf ail- cestors. and on flop, of it n11 a lot of luck. —Onawa Journal.

When the Government. begins tn relinquish some cf the numerous office buildings il now occupies in Ottawa, we will be ready to believe that it is in 82111195! in its desire to rcrirre expenditures. — Brockvillc Recorder and Times.‘

More fragile than the fillgreed ice lracerics which form an wind- ows in lhe heavy frost, lhe sllcw- fiakes can hold their pizrily but briefly- Thr-irs is ll quiils-clialiging life, individual n5 they drift. from the clouds. falling softly in a silence that becomes almost tangible, to lose Identity in the temporary white blanket they spread upon the land. Yet. in lhcir short. lrarisit. arch is n modci of nature's arlisl-ry. a symbol of supremo liamiony of line that defies imitation by mans most skiiful hands. —-Victo:ia Times.

The New York Central is drserv- ing of congratulations for under- taking the elimination of Gulf Curve at Little Falls, NY.. where a disastrous wreck occurred in 1M0. Elimination cf the curve makes necessary the diversion of the Mo- hawk River into a now channel and conslrucllon of more than one mile of four-track railway. In addition. ll will require the straight- ening of Stale Highway 5105. The iota! cost will be $2,500,000. —Bu.ff- alo Fourier-Express.

New England Yankees, who fought so hard the supposedly inferior stocks of lhe more recent immi- gration. have to take ii back seat on one clearly measurable, physic- a1 test. Examining dentists at ii wartime selective induction ‘denim’- ihero found that persons with Eng- lish. Scottish, Irish, Canadian or American parents or grandparents were deritaiiy inferior, The’r teeth tended to decay. On the other hand. Russians. Ohiii-csc. Americ- an Negroes and Portuguese stocks fended lo have teeth resistant to decay. --Dc5 Moines Tribune.

For some reason or other many girls and women ridicule the idea of modesty. treating it. a; a survival of the Vicloriari cra that should ‘be laughed out of existence. Time was when girls and women ivere always spoken cf as the modest sex: they cannot as a whole. be called so today. Relatively speak- ing, 1t is llie male that is the mod- est sex. No groom ycuth or man would have the gall to appear in public as scantily clad as irimv girls and women are. and if lliclr feel- ings may not. be ascribed to in0d- esty, ii. can at lcasi be salCl that they m»: loo self-conscious to do so. —St. Thomas Times-Journ- s1.

Once before. some generations ago, Europe ivc-ni through lhe same experience and throw off lhe LVYZIY-Tly of regilrlcntaliazi n! tho hands of kings and prillccs, of barons nnri court officials, The years which followed lite downfall of the older system were bitter years indeed. Europe went through great misery. Out. of that misery lherc crime (he greatest and mosl glorious period of European history, great and glorious because ii was a period of liberty. Europe will go through the some experience. Provided that Eur- ope and the same thing stand; true of Britain, lhr- United States and Canada, will keep lfbcrly and re- fuse to be bribed into reglliieiilalion by promises of securlly, lhe great. crime committed by the Nazis will have failed completely and Europe will olicc again be great and glori- ous, rich and happy, “Brandon Sun.

As a lover of dogs. we are happy to see that. the American Veterinary Medical Association is branching our into lllf‘ field of animal psy- chlalry, Dr. J. G Hardenbergih say that many irritable, maladjusted dogs have developed complexes from impzcpcr treatment. He is undoubt- c:lly r‘ghl. Consider, for example the affocl m lhe maslerful English bull al. the loss of dignity he suf- fm-s "when he has In roll cln the lloc-r as llie price of n Lid-bit. Gan if be doubled that a German {hep- iierd goes slowly nuts as a succes- slan of wcll-intentlflned visitors wlsccrack: "If you're a police dog, where's your badge?" Haw deeply wounded must. be lhc gentle, af- fectionate dachshund when he secs himself portrayed in cartoons as the symbol of Nazi ‘brutality? Or the loving Great, Dane who gets cuffed when he tries to follow the Peiringeee into his mistress‘ lap? What marks are left cm n dog's psyche when he can't find l. dog- tiouse because they wont rem to docs with humans? --Ohlcaga Dolly News.

There is n new recreation on tlio -l10I'lIIl—- rolobowling. As lhe name implies, lhe game has much In common with ordinary bowling. 1t ls played on an alley 94 fear long and B! inches wide. and the object is to knock down as many as posi- ibie of the l0 pins. The alleys are carpeted with fell; and the metal- core pins are making the grime practically noise- less. The sides of the alley are cushioned like those of a billiard

"hope-rd pins" about halfway dc-wln the alley. ‘Die ofloner the player can bank the boil off these, the ltllgher nu some. m is-polaial hollow siimiinam boil i.s not pio-j polled hi hand, but is ejected from o specially hulli machine which

sluts it wtilriissg nt speeds up to 4.5M ffvtllilfhmg per rntfnste befwe releasing. -- Kilchsnor Record.

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o SONG BEFORE SINGING _,

Giver of song from out thydepth Of beauty. truth. iraascendcnt. fir-e, Giver of song, from out thy dept-h

A son! to 11ft him higher and

higher. _ I would be immanent, Master. for her. - '

Singing above earth's common llll‘ Bringing to man o song divine. Give me n song that shall endure. ’

Give me n song that shall make man whole. l

And lend him away from death and wrong;

Play on my soul, till its strings respond. . - .

Give me the wards, 0 Master of Song.

-Wil1iism D. DcCoste (formerly of Charloltelovrni in "Sing! Soldier Singign. .

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A frame of a church 4-8 feet in length by a0 in width and suffici- ently high to admit of side galler- ies with a handsome tower of sixty feel in height W85 raised at St. Eleanars in Richmond Parish last week. The building i; already partly boarded up and there is every pros- pect of its being covered in bycthe- middle of July next. Great praise ls due to the inhabitants of this part of the Island for their efforts in securing to themselves the privil- ege of having a clergyman of the Established Ohurcti situated among lhem, and the bounty of the soc- iely for Propagating the gospel in foreign parts cannot out-merit the gratitude of every well wishes tn the prosperity of the Island.

It is l0 be hoped that the ex- ample of the inhabitants of St. Davids and Richmond parishes will stimulate their fellow Islanders to similar exertions and that. the vill-

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On Being Fussy

(Toronto Saturday Night) “Canada wants only 15/119 0f Dwspflcilve immigrant: only used l that type of imn-iigram is needed o, muchvwhat she got. and the result will be we1¢°med_--_‘_M°nyreaj Ga. ls Us, and it. isn't such a bad re-

The present population aria, who will do the welcoming, are getting nothing but the of course entirely the product, or type of prospective immigran: the the finest type of immigration. We result, may be that we shall get have only to look at ourselves to see that the process which produc- any kind. This isn't the nineteenth ed Us must have been t-he mos‘. ex- century. quisitely selective process that can be imagined. Yet, as it happens. no single immigration movemaiut at. the time‘ when it was taking place impressed the existing inhabitants of the counlry as being anytihing cf the kind. Thearrlval of the Her-ch was certainly not; a source of un- mitigated satisfaction dians. Tlic arrival of -fhe was resisted with the utmost vigor by the French. The arrival of the United Empire nearer to pleasing their predeces- sors liian that of any other influx. but that; war. because the colony had just acquired a potential enemy on its southern border been forced to realise population, and these rcriv citizens ‘were already North Americans and their advent weakened Republic ‘while it strengthened inc married rmn with children pays British settlements. The arrival of more taxes than a man without any the Iris-h pleased nobody except the dependents. For while some effort. steamship compamfe! which played them as navvics. The arrival to-corrcct inequalities or anomalies, of lhe new English influx the opening cf tlhe prairies (he slogan “No Engiisi-Pneed apply" affllre for e man earning a modest. and to the term "remittance man” Chinese were so unwelcome that their women were never rid- mined and they themselves were excluded (after o, long period of charged 8500 entry fee) and they the now almost extinct; while the Japanese were equally unpopular a married man earning $2.000 s and were restricted by a "gentle- man's agreement." because could not. be excluded by law. The