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Helping The Fisherman

.- EDITORIAL NOTES —

reveal that in this war only one of each 49 wounded Americans dies; in the first World War the figure was one to l5. In this war, due to medical advance, we shall lose only one per- cent of compound fracture cases, wherein percent died in the first World War. These and other figures on losses from injury and _d1s- ease, are reported by Admiral Mclntire in a signed article in The Americin Magazine. e e n-

all of Italian East Africa, which was defended by 300,000 troops, was conquered by the Bri- tish Army, and Abyssinia was freed; and in

Canada's pack of dried boneless fish, all 0f it from the Atlantic Provinces, increased by 33 per cent in size last year and by per cent 1n marketed value. The war, by "ilfmlnll" P71?“ gcticrally, had something to do, of course, with the rise in value. But according to the Fisheries Nazi's Bulletin, the growth in production reflects in large measure the special instructional pro- grain lll fish proc "iug which the Dominion De- lnrtitn-ttt of Iiisltci s has been carrying on. The sumo program, by bringing about a higher stand- ard of output, ltclpcil likewise to increase the pro- duccrs’ rcturti

The uni"; output, most 0f it boneless dried cod hut’ inclntliizg also substantial quantities 0f lizilci- tluil tiiillitrlc and some cusk and haddock, amountcil to 351.3115 huudrctlwcights, as against 3x41»; it, 11,41, j ightly- more than three-quart- ers m‘ thc total paclcuas produced in Nova Sco- tia, or iii-arty 30.100 hundrcdweight. Quebec ranlci-d scion-l. with close to 4,300 hi1i1dred- wciglits. t» its credit, and in New Brunswick the pruductiuti was something under 3,800 liund- rt-ihvcights, Printm- lidwartl Island put up less

than $00 hut the incrctisc in Island pack was lt‘lilll\'t'l_\' gruatci- than tlic increase anywltcrt:

' in 10.11, the Prince Edward Islatid

rs had pgu up less than 100 hundred- weights.

Total trick had a value oti the market of $;_>4.uuu, as compared with loss than $401,400 in 104i. Thu valug, pcr huutlrcilivciglits, avcr- aged $119.10 or $4.30 more than in the earlier year.

Proiltictioit of honclcss dried fish is not by any lllBZlllS a new thing on the Dominioifs ;\t— laniic coast hut tn the past few years it has been talc-cu up in a number of districts where fortncrlv ihcrc was no processing 0f the kind The incrcasctl inicrcst has marched along with action talccn by the. Department of Fisheries, in Atlantic areas whore the fisheries are under its adutinfstration, to titnke instruction in the most approved tncthotls of fish handling and pro- cessing available to fishing communities which desire it. Specially men were put in the field by the department several years ago, and have been kept in the field at the appropriate seasons each year, to give this help to the fishermen and though the instructors are not concerned with boneless fish alone the methods of preparing that‘ particular product are given a large share of their attention.

Efforts of this kind are to be wholeheartedly commended. If they succeed in retaining good prices for our fishermen after the war, they will have solved one at least of our post-\var re- habilitation problems.

The Manpower Picture

To the credit of the manpower officials, says Canadian Business, it must be said that they used common sense this fall in refusing to grant temporary work permits for New Brunswick agricultural lzilgttir to cross into Maine to har- vest potatoes. ilowever friendly the Maritimes an toward New England, and sympathetic with i\Iaine's Aroostook Valley potato growers in the midst of a labour dilemma, it was the re- sponsibility of N. B. workers to see that their own crops were looked after before hiking across the line to seek fatter wage envelopes in the U. S.

With a guaranteed floor price for their pota- toes, Maiue growers could pay expert pickers as high an $25 a dav. In the New Brunswick potato belt. where nearly 4,000,000 barrels are being harvested, the same pickers might earn $10 to $12 a day. The difference explains the eagerness of labour to get across the boundary for a few weeks.

Potato-picking, incidentally, notes Canadian Biuinoss, is one phase of farming in which soldier-labour could earn the $3 a day rate set by the (iovvrititteitt for the hlaritimes, a rate which everyday general farmers found it diffi- cult or itiipossible to pay. There arc some who might say, on the other hand, “What, pay sold- iers only S3 a day when potato field help be- side them is earning $10 to $12? That's going t0 the other 4‘.\'ll'\‘lllt‘, and paying them tnucli too littlc." lut it must be l‘L‘llli?li'll)Cl'CCl that an “ex-' pert piclcvr" is one who can fill 100 barrels a ilay, and even stalwart youths new to the job can ltardlv do it. .-\ business man who volunteers on a tit-into farm tiftcti discovers that a crick in his bitch hulls him for the day after he completes one liflt'l‘\‘l. l':tvv earned: 10 cents.

Ch u rchiaflj: Prophet

_ The New York Titties notes that Prime Min- istcr ('hiu'chill, in addressing the National Con- fcrciicc of \\'omcit in London, spoke of the pos- sibility of a sixth year 0f war. Past perform- .attccs stiggt-st that when Mr. Churchill depicts thc road zihcad he docs so with clear-seeing vis- lflll."l‘ll’l’i startling cxntinilcs of long-range force- cttsttiig wcrc rrcallrrl here.

In a spceclt on _luly 14, 1940, after Fmncs had fallen and llritniit stood alnne, Nlr. Church- ill said:

‘We must prepari- nut only for the Stimtut-r. but for the \\'intcr. not only for I041 but for 1<_).i.*, when the war will. I tritst, take a differ- efll lflilil from the defensive in which it has hitherto been hound."

Tlictt on his visit to this country shortly after Pearl llai-ltnr, .\lr. Churchill told Congress on ‘Dec. :8, wit: ' '

‘fllliliik ii Wiltlltl be reasonable to ltopc that tho cud of W43 will sec us quite ilcfinitcly iu a better position than wc are now. and that the year 1943 will enable us to assume the iuitiativz- upon an ample scale."

the first North African campaign (1940-41), General Wavell destroyed an Italian Army of some 250,000 men, with a loss 0f less than 2,- 000 0f his own men. The whole Middle East Command of which the force in Libya was but a part, totalled only about 110,000 men.

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Sir Isaac Brock, British general, born this date 1769; native of Guernsey at the early age of twenty-eight became Lieut. Col. 0f the 49th Regiment; after service in Holland and Den- mark canie with his Regiment t0 Canada where he was stationed successively at Quebec, Niagara and York; had become Major General when the war broke out in 1812 and appointed president and administrator of Upper Canada, with brilliant audacity, he captured Detroit, but: two months later his troops were defeated at Queenstott Heights; during the engagement he

fell tuortally wounded, and died the same day. 3i 4K l‘ It‘

Further collection of milkwced leaves to per- init continued experiments in the making 0f rubber is tirgcntly required, the Agriculture De- partment declares. Not nearly enough milkweed has yet been obtained to carry 0n the necessary research work. School children and any other persons who can collect ntilkiveed are asked to ship as much as possible at once to H. A. Senn, National Research Council, john street Labora- tory, Ottawa. The department said school iti- spcctors and tcacltcrs are particularly requested to encourage collection and shipment of milk- weed by children, as only a short time is left be-

fore all the leaves are lost. ¥

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A soldier returned from service with a con- struction battalion in Africa, expressed great admiration for the cranium powers of the na- tives. I-Ie gave one a letter to mail. He put it on top of his head, placed a stone on it as a paper weight and carried it to the mail post. Then he gave him a 350-p0tiitd airplane engine, which he placed on his head, and without even a paper weight to keep it from bloiving off, carried it four miles to its destination. Still another filled a navy wheelbarrow with dirt, placed the wheelbarrow, dirt and all on his head and carried it to the dutiip.

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This may be a young man's war, says Brook- lyn Eagle, but the oltlstors are finding them- selves more appreciated than ever. Out in Kan- sas City a telegraph company has hired 60 for- moi" business men, from 50 to 83 years old, as messengers. Finds they do all right, too. What time they lose because their joints are a bit stiff is more than itiade up by their immun- ity to the distractions that are so likely to take up the time of lads in their teens. Does beat all that it took a war to teach some emplgvers that age isn't the only test of an individual's value as an employe.

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The British Government's decision t0 al- locate £2 1-2 million toward the cost of provid- ing clothes for Russia —the other half-million pounds being met by Mrs. Churchill's Red Cross Aid to Russia Fuud—has resulted in the pur- chase of a lafgc variety of goods, including heavy woollen cloth sheepskin and fur coats, pull-over, men's and women's suits, dresses and overcoats. Large consignments have already been sent out, and will be followed by others as shipping becomes available. This, when short- age of such supplies in Great Britain necessitates such rationing that if a woman bought 1 pair of full-fashioned stockings a month, and l dress and 1 pair of shoes a year, she would have no coupons left to buy other clothesl

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In his Ottawa party organization address, Prime Minister Mackenzie King declared: “Since 1940 to this hour, there has not been a time when ships were available in numbers

in Canada had enlisted voluntarily for service anywhere." There is in this sentence the subtle misrepresentation, however unintentional, which has been standard Liberal doctrine since the con- scription debate began in 1940 —namely, the assumption that overseas reinforcements are the first, last and only reason for compulsory ser- vice. This is the claim of the opponents, not proponents, of conscription. Need for reinforce- menttmight well become the dominant reason for a policy of conscription. There are signs that it

may become so beforelong. It has not been so up to now. But there are other reasons almost equally powerful, which the Prime Minister's reference completely ignores. Canada's weakest point today is manpower —the lack 0f an effici- cnt, effective manpower policy, to keep industry as well as armed forcss iffeftively in action.

in accordance with a resolution of the 1935 Dominion-Provincial conference, says the Mom. ton Transcript, a committee of Dominion and provincial officials met and prepared a draft l)tll designed to secure to Canada the power to amend the B.N.A. Act, and also to provide safeguards against any undue invasion of pro- vtncial rights. The bill was not introduced be- ratisc of the refusal of one province to co-op- rrtilc, although the general purpose of the pro- posed legislation was approved by the eight oth- cr provinces. The bill provided for three classes of amendments; those which could be finally enacted hv the Dominion parliament; llltlfit‘ which would liavc in command a stiffici-

cnt sitpport of the provinces, to act as a, check

upon too radical proposals, and ghosc which would rcqtiire tinanimitv inngnntgh a; they Wonk] deal with the guarantrsrl rights of mi|1gfiligg_ Although eight _yt':irs tinvc elapsed no progress has since been reported.

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1t was tm much troll- ble to make a workable settlement of reparations and of e WEI‘ debts. It was easier to let them break down and wreck the finance-s of the world. We took the easier way. 1t was too mucii trouble tn work out arrangements for the re- sumption of trade because lt was too much trouble to deal with the vested interests and the lobbyist-l and the politicians. It was elsler to let. the trade of the world he stranlrled by tariffs. quotas. mid exchansze controls. And We $00k the easy way. It was easier to finance an Inflationary boom b.v Bh“B-T) money than it. was en re-estslallsh trade based upon the exchange 0i’ izoods. We tndulized ourselves ln the inflationary boom Bricl let ll! win (because it was too much trou- ble to check to into n crash that threw about twenty-five 1151111905- here and abroad. out: of Wofll- and destroved the savings of a , l‘! part. of the BT01.‘ o: all counries

Having got to that. it was too hard to liquidate the inflafiou. 11ft was easier to cover un the mf a- tlon and pretend that it did not exist. So we took me easier WEY -we maintained the tariffs. 11" maintained the costs and the over- head expenditures of the mom. and thus made it impossible to recover from the crash.

The failure of the recoverv Dm- duced at the foundations of wes- tern civilization a fev01u5!°n1\"" discontent. It was eas" ‘O "F trlizhtened by the discontent. Si: we were properly frlshlelled- Bud- it was hard to malt. me etfogt 1m {hetsscrlfice to remedv the dscvn- e

n .. en out of this discontent ‘here wgh bred in the heart of EilJODP and on the edge of Asia an 0 all’; tzed rebellion aizalnst the w on heritaize of western civilization. L:- was easy to disapprove. and w; i! 2 approved. But. it was hard .0 nr_ nanlze and prepare th= resistance- that would have \‘9fl"il'9d invite." and effort and sacriflca and ills’; clollne and courage. We ivatche" the rebellion izrow. We heard threatm the things we believe in. We saw it commit. vearf after Yea‘?- savage crimes. We disliked it al- Bui: we liked better our eBsy-aoltis ways, our jobs. our profits. and our pleasures. and so we said: It ts bad but; it won't. last: it. is danSPYM-l» but it can't cross the ocean: 1t is evil. but, if we arm ourselves ard dtsclpltne ourselves. and not: wit)‘; other freecpeonles to contain it: an hold it. ba . we shall be Klvlni “l; our use and our comfort, we shill be tnkln risks. and that ls m0" trouble t. an W'B cart‘: to tflke.

S0 we are where we are today. We are where we are beefliill‘ whenever we had a choice to make. we have chosen the alternative that required the least: effort at the mo- ment. There is organized mechan; tzed evil loose in the world- B" fir.‘ ‘ti.’ 'i"“‘° “i“.'.’.'§..l.t“...t'°f€§'

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tiff‘: these virtues we

, see the hard way la the only endiirlnl w-ay.

M-osqqw _ - About 1-, 000,000 copies 0f(l?l:)W0!‘ll of Brit- ish and American authors have been published in the various lan- guages of the soviet Union during two years 0f war.

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The expression “Se/vim; 0"" bacon is given a P018113“ m‘! practical twist. by the news that. the Dunmow Flitch, which has been awarded since the twelfth century no those couple who. alt their trials. could prove the happ-ness 0f the" marriages. had this year to be hand- ed back by the winners. It; was. to be sure, only gnmmon masquerad- ing ns flltch which had to be returned t0 the loctil stores, but. a “token presentation’ ls little 6W1‘ solution for the thick, luscious rash- ers that, will fall to arace the haPPY famtlv breakfast table.

A flltch, although it: susseats the anti-e and outslze, ls one of thcse awards which are assets rather than liabilities. No one, it seemsmin g0 through life without acquiring a number of more or less useless

too blunt ever to aspire to the glitt- ering prizes are apt to fall in the bodv trap and crawl nut with s woolen lea-coasy or a s.t of reduridr ant: fish-knives. so thoughtful, in- competltlon that everybody who deed, is the ccmmittee work n some enters like ih-s animals ln the Caucus-race over which Alice was constrained t0 preside. is more or less bound to emerge with some kind of award- "Everybody has won," said the Dodo, "and all must have prize" -und avoidance of unwanted honours entails a high degree of skill Even l1 a man be that, stem and unclubbable tvpe whom even the annual village fete can per-

suade to a raffle. 1t fs unlikely that he will have avoldcd the prize thrust upon him when he was too young» to resist. Igncrnttce of the more recognized forms of learning can- not always save the schoolboy the indignity o1 being called upon on y to walk, pink of face r, to collect some ornntely bound book which still remains unread. The award 0f "Sartor feesartus" or one of the more hearty characters in The Loom of Youth." who had imdvertenly ac- quired it, to an indignant iiiqlllfy as to what the title meant, and books. as prizes, even when they are not incompre- hensible to careless youth. somehow manage to preserve a stiffness, to- wards their more informal compan- ions in the sitelves. ‘ If prizes of the more incongruous tyne dos the roctsteps of the cheer- , fullv incompetent, the competent. in the days when tournaments lri

daily throughout the count sometimes pursued the mom m“- ventlonal awards with n fervour that threatenrd their amateur status, silver culxs look well upon the sideboard. but the reputation, of being B. pot-hunter is one to be} avoided. From that stigma at least: the winners of the Hitch are free. ' Mflfrlflse may be a lottery. and man and curious are the impluses w Pmmlli P001118 into it, but at least no couple can be accused of having l an eager and aurlclous eye on “l. lfisddfiéddéfi ‘k. ““°,....'“°“‘ 2.3: . e and good humour necessary to "l!" '- hlPDy marriage deserve wmelhlnz more than e. token. and {fir}! thbe pity this that niwnig e soon, e w bring n home’ Y were unable

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the thrilling new world of to- morrow . . . the world he will help to build.

Already he's learning to stand on his own feet, a young man with ideas; self-reliant, courageous, ready to carve out a future by his own personal efforts.

Many of these young men of to- morrow —- future leaders — already have accounts of their own at the Royal Bank. They have spare-time jobs, work hard and save some of their money for the day when op_ portunity will beckon. Theirs is the spirit that has made this country great. It is the spirit that will build a Canada worthy of her future.

What is PRIVATE ENTERPRISE?

lt is the natural desire to make your own way, as far as your ability will take you; an instinct tharJias brought to this continent the highest standard of life enjoyed by any people on earth. lt is the spirit of democracy on the march . . .