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J. Fine. 8M Bny St. Toronto Ont.

Wolfe's News Stand. Sndhnry. Ont. _0ld South News. Cor. Milk and Washington Sh.

Holding’! New: Agency ‘limos Building, Now 80h.

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

THURSDAY, JULY ll, 1846

Biggest Farm Problem

d Farm field days, \vhich are now getting under way throughout the Province, offer an excel- lent opportunity for our farmers to kcep abreast of the times. But the most ScrIOuS problem is unfortunately still unsolved; namely the shortage of farm labor. It is one of grow- ing concern especially when increasing demands are being made upon agriculture to produce more food to aid the hunger-stricken countries of the world. One third of the Dominioifs farm workers left the farms during the ~war and many of them are not willing to return because they maintain that better earnings can be made by taking other jobs. This is a. disturbing situa- tion and if it continues any length of time only means 0m fliing-—a permanent shortage of fOOd- To permit farm labor conditions to deteriorate so that such a stage should be reached is some- thing which cannot be conceived and it r1065 seem that the governmental departments con- cerned should take definite action now to helD remedy the farmer's number one problem-

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Last Illusion Gone

During the war years, says the London Tinici‘. women showed such signal and coruscating bravery that the most arrogant of men must needs bow before them. Yet until quite lately he had one consoling illusion left. He be- lieved that she who was~not in the least afraid of a bomb was horribly afraid of a mouse. To- day even that belief has been torn from him by the act, as valiant asrit was guileful, of a nurse in g Yorkshire hospital. She saw a mouse run- ning about‘ her ward and tried to catch _it, but the mouse refused to be caught. Seizing an ethyl-chloride spray she gradually manoeuvred her quarry into a corner and sprayed the floor round it. The mouse was anacsthetized and the nurse, with just an endearing touch of fe- minine delicacy, picked it up with a f0r€¢l>§ and‘ handed it over to some crude male executioner. She thus wiped out oiice and for all the re prnach that has rested immemorially on her sex. '

More "Bullets For Butter"

One advantage of Russian Communism is that strikes are outlawed. The autocratic ad- ministration retains all administrative power in its own hands, and the population as a whole must give implicit obedience, or go to Sibera or, just as likely face a firing squad. But like Hit- ler’5 -“bulleis for butter" pre-ivar policy it achieves results and Stalin's prewar 5-ycars plan is t0 be followed by another five years plan with even greater objectives in view, and it might be as wcll for us lll Canada to realize what is going on behind the bickcrings we hear so much of in UNO.

“The Supreme Soviet of the USSR states that the main task of the Five-Year Plan for the Restoration and Development of the Nat- ional Economy of the USSR for 1946-1950 15 to rehabilitate the affected districts of the coun- try, restore industry and agriculture to the pre- war level and then considerably to surpass this level."

This is tfic main economic and political task of the new Stalin Five-Year Plan for i946- 1950. The law sets not only general tasks. but also concrete ones in the various branches of the national economy and culture.

The tasks-are set forth thus:

"In the first place, to restore and develop heavy industry and railway transport, without which we could not move forward.

“To create an abundance of the main con- sumer goods in the country.

"To further ‘technical progress in all branches of the national economy.

“To further raise the defense 00W" °l ll" USSR and to supply our armed forces with the most modern military technique.‘ '

"To construct more than 25° billion Yllbl“ worth of restored and new enterprises, and in connection withf- this, to develop a powerful building industry in all fields.

"To restoreand build new towns and villages and to increase the number of houses in the country. ' _ _

"Tmsurpass the prewar level of national in- come and national consumption. _

,"To stfengthcn steadily cadres of workers in

. industry-land transport.

"To raise the productivity of labor.

‘YR: improve-national education, train cultural “fled, improve public health and cultural con-

_ “lb-increase the national wealth, State mi-

rucfves, and stocks.

, '_"To~i_nsiiihin strict economy. strengthen self-

support and‘ lower production costs. _

_, _, . , bounty knew the ma: range and lilflli

fill: prcrlourFivg-Ycar Plans. The

_ , UlTive-Ycsr Pisa rpum them Ill. * tori. insane. to build

ever had such a task.’

"The automobile industry must produce 50o thousand automobiles a year. Within five years we will begin the wide use of automobiles in our country. -

“Within the next five years \ve must restore "and build 5,900 enterprises. These will be five years of great building! -

“Compared with ‘the First Five-Yeear Plan, the gross output of agriculture should increase 225 per cent in 1950. This will mean consider- ably more bread, meat, sugar, butter, cotton and wool. Rationing of bread, flour, cereals and macaroni will be abolished by autumn of the present year. The present method of supplying the population by food ration cards will be re- placed by the development of Soviet trade.

"The Soviet people will confidently proceed toward an abunndace of consumers’ products and goods iii their country!

“In order to realize the great Stalin program, the Soviet people must strain all their forces, mobilize the colossal resources of their coun- try and daringly advance to meet the difficult problems in order to conquer them.

“The Soviet people are ready for it!

"Under the leadership of the Soviet Govern- ment, with the great Stalin at its head, the Soviet people will transform the law on the new Five-Year Plan into life."

This being their avowedpolicy and plan, sure- ly we in Canada must be living in a Fool's Para- dise if we fail to realize all that it connotes, the key paragraph in its plan being that which de- clares Stalins intention to raise the defence power of the USSR and to supply its armed forces with the most modern military technique. which is nothing less than we have said before a repetition of Hitler's “bullets for butter."

i .. EDITORIAL stores ,-

Canada invaded by the US. this date, 1812.

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Everybody speaks well of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements; now, how deep into our pockets does the sympathy and appreciation extend?

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Congratulations are in order for Principal Steele, LL.D., On being appointed a Governor of the CBC, though evidently it required a lot of pull for'him to ‘(Efillllilliii duc.

The Fraser Company deserve praise and hearty commendations on their enterprise in con- tinuing to increase and expand our airborne products to the U.S..-\. In the old, prc-Con- federation days, when water was our means oii transport, the U.S..‘\., \Vcst Indies and Britain were our natural markets. Alas, since we en- tered Confederation, our seaborne commerce directly from and to our ports, has practically disappeared, and it is with a. feeling 0f optim- ism we look upon this new (lepartiire to, iii some measure, make goo'd the loss

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Farms and cottages of the C0lllllfi€S'§3ld ham- let of Charlton, near Bristol, England, will be torn down in order to build a second runway for the fro-ton Brabazon I airliner -— biggest land plane yet made in Britain—now under construc- tion. Villagcrs will trek two miles down the road to the new homes that the British Gov- ernment is to provide for them. Besides the runway, a huge hangar is being built on a nearby golf-course at a cost of $7,000,000.

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Love and murder may prove bcdfcllmvs, and not infrequently d-o. The wife of a Congrega- tional minister of lVarwick, England, admitted cutting his throat while kissing him, and was sentenced to nine months imprisonment for malicious xvountling. She said she could not ex- plain her actiou, and the injured husband said he had forgiven hcr. A case for the psycologist.

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There are today fifty-two Credit Unions in operation in the Province, with about 8,500 members and assets of over one-half million dollars. Consideration is now being given to centralizing the offices of the Credit Union Lea- gue, the Co-operative Union, the Fishermerfs Co-operalivcs, and an atlvisogy and contact branch 0f the St. Dimstan's Extension Depart- ment. Thus has the movement grown from the small beginnings in co-operative marketing and production originally sponsored by The Guar- dian and Mr. Benson of the Federal Department of Agriculture, Poultry Branch.

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Captain Alfred Dreyfus, French army victim died this date i935; he was arrested in the fall of I894 while an officer at the Staff Col- lcgc, and charged with offering to sell military secrets Lo Germany; it was a plot concocted by Aiiti-Semites, Dreyfus being a Jew; he was convicted on false evidence and sentenced to imprisonment in Devil's Island, French Guiana; but Zola, the novelist, came to the rescue, and in his famous open letter "Yacctisc", llffilllllll about the reopening of the case, with the result that after a year's imprisonment Dreyfus was proved innocent, set attliberty, and awarded the Legion of Honour; the officer who forged the evidence, Col. Henry, subsequently committed suicide.

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Here is how ecclesiastical vested interests look upon tainted, or "blood" money as reported in a Renter's bulletin from London: A sidelighi on prostitution in London is that the worst vice area outside Piccadilly Circus is concentrated in th¢ 6oo-acre Paddingtoii estate-an area in which the ecclesiastical commissioners have s considerable property interest. Reporting on this paradox recently, a special diocesan corn- minee of ii appointed by the London Diocesan conference said: "There i|'no doubt tthat im- moral conditions exist in this part of Imidoii both on the estate and outside it but while im- moral ooridltions exist in some houses on the estate, ground rents received by the church are

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Notes By The Wdy

~ A Mid-West profouor predicts that the monetary system of the future wlll- be based on urnnlinn. But think of the disaster to tbs n: hborliood when s dollar is split- — ew York Sun

Persons of n scientific bent may find an especial iiueresi in a newly discovered wood-pulp food but a; a conservative lannan oar pre- ference is still for a p1Bllk.Wl.th u steak on top. —Boslon Herald.

So long as people drive automo- biles carel.".sly so long as small boats are overloaded so long as non-swimmers and swimmers of limited ca. self-y no info water un- safe for . so long shall we have tragedies. -Ot-taws Journal.

Veteran court stamp; gt "w, little Ann McEachern holds down n Sli-a-day Job in Columbia, SC, 00"". because she can't read. She draws jurors names when panels are selected in circuit courts for Rlchland county. Her predecessor reached the retuement age of =>lx and had to go lo school. The

rescrlbes that the lob must be he d by a mSOII who can't read. -—Ne'w York t,

We alwnys like those stories about persons who get lucky hunches on horse races. There was a man in Winnipeg who made a purchase at i1 store and when e zot home

he noticed the number of the stiles sllp was 44A. The purchase totaled $4.44. A razlng enthusiast he gefflmplly dashed to the park atid l on No. 4 1n the fourth race That's right-it. came ln fourth .._ Cornwall Stari/dai-fclllrseholder.

1! We tackled the housing problem with half the energy anci resolve that we put lnlo the manufacture of military supplies, 1t would be solved in appreciable measure. If labor and mariazernent could sink their differences and resolve to get on with the lob, come what mlg t of producing till the countless co modllle in such sorry need, they would be forthcoming. —-Brockv1lle Recorder and ‘flmies.

Because of the dramatic impact 0f the thl . a fatal plane crash Ls more exc ling news than mili- lons of miles a! safe and routine flight. By 1944 ‘(the most recent year for which Civil Aeronautics Administration figures are avail- able) scheduled airlines flew 41',- 172551 miles for each passenger fatality; that 1s Ofllv one passenger killing for each A000 limes around the earth. Newspapers printed that loo but few people were moved to remark. "A good thing, now safz ocmmerclal air travel has become‘

~Loulsvllle Courier Journal. . The children's allowance may m‘ may not be .1 good thing, but inc number of clerical workers employ- ed lo administer it would staff many a necessary public service -- waiiresses for restaurants, for ex- ample. There are an awful lot o.’ executives in ;a.bc: and political or

ganlzatlons who would make excel}. 9m 1191p 0X1 die farm where the‘; are badly needed. We slrongly 5m. pect that nearly every oifice in Canada could spare at [Qgg-t on, member for orlmsry 13th:)!‘ 0g 50mg kind, and the number of public relations officers sending mall to weekly editors could be reduced by one-half. —Elora Express.

Because he felt he was riot en- titled lo charge am more 80-year- old Mr. Alexander Knight artist and wood-carver lius sold his house for $2.000 The London Daily Mail reports Similar houses 1n 'he same district qf Barking London E have fetched from $4,006 to $5 poo ii young married cou le who accord- lflB l° ML Klllght. ave been living "in terrible conditions" have bou h: the house Mr Knl ht has n50 been selling n15 furn cure, Typjgal prices were $14 for a 13f&19gg9d abled and $16 for a bookcase-with, lass doors "I don't Hgwe with _h'is mad rush for money he 331d, ‘Ive got what l think is a. fair Price".

In "amnion. Viscount Alexand- er taklriiz part. _lll the gltyfg cgn» ennial celebration officially Olurcd open" Main street, s they. oughfaxe which has been in steady use for over u century It was my, Hls Exoellencys fault: officials in fill-Bike of the program had neglect- ed lo brief him ‘He was not aware "Wt ‘he ribbon strung acnoss the street was not. the ribbon he had been Warned w expect ln connec- tion with a street opening cere- mony across the Dcrnlnlon Day parade route. —Lcrr.don Frei- Press.

Here ls a slorv that should send all those cynics on the subject of mllrlmcny away to hide their heads A Leicester doclor had a near: as. tack He knew '16 was dying. So he drove himself l5 miles home to his wife racing death suffering terrible pain because he thought she would be worried if she got a "19559-89 that ne was ill He died in her arms. And this ls what a man said when lie was given a golden weddln gift. the oi er day: "Any success I eve had has been large- ly due to the loving care and hel I have received from my wife" t lsn t necessary to my anything more about the stories of Ihe doctor and "18 olhol‘ man except this; only it fool 1n oulsize mental blinkers can read them and still say "There's rwthlns in 1i". —Guelph Mercury.

Although the world's ‘loo pnddies cover onv about half iie acreage of its wheat fields. may llmauce about an equal volume of finish- ed grain in normal films-approxi- mately‘ 150,000,000 ions a vear says Th; cw York Sun. 'I'ha wheat crop presents superior nutritive value because a larger portion of its kernel is used but. more people depend principally for their nour- ishment amt rice than upon when Unfortunn for these people. 96 percent. of e1; rice comes who! 1s called ‘Monsoon Asia‘ southeastern motion or that. con tlnenc and its outlying no offering. gv he wit? e av an savanna . in I ll Iihut ma’. are well 90$ tend over the world's surface-so ‘hat aiogonotrilc nzd clxlgigtlc condll- rn o sects-n not [rem cot m? supply. y

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noiice comment on the condition of the fin: on the O.N.R. station. ending with the lauuestlo . that lt should be Io to the dry cleaners. I do no know the author of these stateme t: and care less, but it might prove of future bene- fit to him to know that it ls not germlaslible to wnsh the Union

ack. and that lilo tnkel 'ln dry cleaning. To enlo hll ltnto of mind concerning this flag I may say that n new one has already been order- ed.. Trusting it willbe u to the high standard required y this

critic. I. nm, Sir, etc. C. N. B. EMPLOYEE.

D.S.T. AND FAB-ll LABUB

Sir —"l"armers Wife" takes time out to write s. letter in Friday's Forum (and most likely let her biscuits burn). It seems that this miserable creature. the hired man, doesn't. start to picb hay until 9 aJn. because “the dew is still thick on the clover.” “Farmer's Wife" is lucky! Down our way its been blowlniz so hard for . three tweaks that we have neither rain. dew nor clover. Its s. au-fs bet too._ that from 5 am. until 0 em. Mr. Hired Man isn't allowed to sit ln the sun porch twlddllng his thumbs. If at 6. m. he thlnks“lt's time to quit" ma e it's because he feels a little lank after working twelve hours on a diet of pea soup and Mulligan stew.

Personally I think (whet-her we have D.S.'I‘. o-r SIP.) Mr. Mer- chant has a perfect. right to close the doors of his shop any time he his shop and . In fact I think snme o! them could be closed more of- ten. Some of our "bio shot" mer- chants (on the rlizht side of politics) did so well during‘ war years that they we: able to do some verv fancy d extensive interior decorating and incidently. were able to Erect the income tax collector with a more cheerful COWIIQCHBTICE. Now this week has been pro- claimed bv our Governor as “Brighten Up Week". But since there ls a shortaue of rural labor farmers will not be able to devote much time to beautifying their buildinsis. Conseuuently I suizszest that "Farmer's Wife" and Mr. J. A. Gillies charter some buses. re- cruit a battalion of Charlottetown and Summerside ladies and bring them, during their long evenings off. to the country where they may employ their skill and surplus time in decorating barn doors and win-

dow frames. I am. Sir. etc. FARM LABOBER

MR. BENTLEY COMMENDED

Slim-The people of this land owe a great debt. to Mr. W. E. Bentley for his strenuous and persistent effort through this Forum to save the people from the awful curse of strong drink. His logic ‘is so good and his endeavours so sin- cere thnt he deserves the respect and recognition o! all ople who love God and their felow-meri. - There are two classes of peogle to be considered: The class t at makes their money out c-f the traffic and the class that ls fool- ish enough to give them that mon- ey, and ruliri themselves, body and soul for time and eternity not realizing what they are doing, for the way of life shows that men and women, boys and girls. are en- tering lnto this throng more and more than ever going down to the pit of destruction. It ls a serious thought that so many seem to glory in being able to bent the law and beat Christian endeavours trying to save them, and go on nnd pass down the stream of life Where at the end of life is death, and God's word says after death the judgement; and God's word also says in that day many shall cry to rocks and mountains to fall up- on them to hide them from e face of I-Ilm that slttlth upon i. e eopie are trying

throne. The Christian é: to save the worl from that hor- rible fate, and Mr. Bentley ls m the fore-front ln that class. What of the night; Lei all who are not positively and absolutely against this great evil think it. over. Just a few short years and all will be in this pool from whence there in no retum where the worm dleth not and the flre ls never quench- ed. What of the night! Broad ls the road that leads to death, and thousands walk together there, But wisdom shows a narrow path With here and there a traveller. I am, Sir, etc, OBSERVER -

"Qup VADIST"

Bur-I um writing this on Can. sun's 79th birthday to ask my countrymen that. head-line ques- tlon-“Wliere do we no from here?"

YEN-HM: in mid-Pacific. our friendly American lwlfllbilllfl ex- ploded an atom-bomb which kill- ed s. few guinea pin. and wiped cut some battleships. The war in Japan came to iin end when two cf these lethal weapons l1 uidqtpd some half million of our f on But not by lhiyllcal fission of atom-l. nor by fuion and combina- tion of chemical elements, will tho world nrflve st my For the thiniu that prevail and conquer an not visi- ble and tmllblc. but the the;