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Department». Ottawa. President. lan A. Barnett; Vice-President. Wm. I. Ilnlett; Seep-Tread. G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. J. It. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker. '

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest !nk."

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY‘ l, 1M7 A Big Task

Almost one million Canadian servicemen and ex-servicemen and women are entitled to decorations and medals totalling several mil- lions for services rendered Canada, and the world at large during World War ll and the designing, minting and safe delivery of thesg medals probably represents the biggest tri-serv- ice headache of the post-war years. Consid- crable progress is b-eing made, however. Fig- ures recently made available in Ottawa reveal that to date the Royal Mint has turned over to service officials some 65,000 Canadian Volun- teer Service Medals and 16,250 clasps. In view of the staggering amount of work involved it is thought likely that considerable time will ‘have elapsed before all the medals will have been mint-ad. It is not intended to hold distri- bution until minting of all the medals has been completed but in no case will any single medal be sent out until there is a sufficient number on hand to slppl)‘ all eligible personnel. Officials at National Defence Headquarters also paint out that if former members of the three serv- ices will advise the Record Section of the Serv- ice concerned of their present whereabouts, scricus delays in delivery of medals will be avoid-

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The War 0n Cancer

Cancer kills between 12,000 and 14,000 Canadians every year, being second only to dis- eases of the heart as a cause of death. Its cause and cure are still a mystery, although it has been found that if treatment can be given early enough, the progress of the disease_can be stopped, or substantially delayed. To find the reason for cancer, and therefrom to deduce _its cure, is the object of a great deal of intensive research all over the civilized world. Canadian medicine is carrying o measure of the burden, and its achievements in other fields _give_ cause for a belief that in the end our contribution will

‘not have been negligible. _

To ensure this expectation, the Nfltlltllfll Cancer Institute of Canada has just been form- ed in Ottawa, by representatives of Govern- ments, the medical profession, and the existing research bodies. It will act as a needed co- ordinating factor in the prosecution of cancer research, and will also stimulate its extellswfl- The Institute will carry omeducational Work. and will doubtless be the chief liaison between the public and the organizations engaged in the actual research. _

The Dominion Government ha! v-llmlied financial support, which will doubtless take the farm of direct grants, and fellowshiPi 7° "a1" research workers. Most of the support for f I! extremely necessary work, however, will have l0 come from the people themselves.

Plowing Matches

Noting that four plowmen from Ontario are In the United Kingdom to compete in plowing matches of international scape, o writer in the Vancouver Province has the following comment:

"The Ontario men will use local horses, of course, and fear has been expressed that Irish teams will not understand the Canadian orders of ‘Gee’ and ‘Haw’. This will not be because they are more familiar with Erse, but because their knowledge of English is better! They learn to turn to the right when told to ‘come over’, and to turn left at words ‘Get back‘! ‘Whoa!’ is the universal word for stopping.

"Furrows will be the some, though the On- tario farm-er usually makes the ‘high cut‘ ridges, the Westerner more frequently plows ‘flat’, turning the sod over completely, that no edges appear. This is one cf the fine points of the art. Straightness of line is equally im-

rtant, and aiming for perfection in these ends

ke the plowman a true artist.

' “ln breaking the first furrow of the field a spot across the field is ‘sighted,’ a building corner, a tree, a fence post or a stake. Each hand grasps a plow handle, the "lincs“ or reins are held in the some grip, the eye is set on the point at the other end, and does not leave it.

“Any deviation in that straight line is a disgrace. All others must follow it. There was a great prid-e in good work. It was worth a Sunday morning walk through the village to see.

"Despite Gray's Elegy no good plowman plodded home wearily. He had a good team, quick to his word and his touch. His step was rhythmic, the plow handles led him along; and if he were at all tired he would return sitting sideways on the back of the near horsel

"With other fine arts of the farm, stack- ing, thatching, scytliing, shearing, horse-plowing is fading into history. The day of the tractor has arrived. Two or three plow shares are set under or behind the engine and the speed is greater than the horse's walk.

"Nor does the tractor tire, it counts no hours. The boy can drive it;_ the girl may do, bringing history round in a high spiral when it ls remembered hot before the horse or the ox, the woman dre the plow with e rope over her shoulder. , . l

"Times move. The horse tsam will follow the oxen as machinery improves, and the‘ oar- fields will grow more precious grain. Th4 91"" lag match‘, that grand assembly of line harm dad men, will pass into the romantic fields of ‘ and may will feel that the trac- ths fast of the larsaer another A any slareiitse that weary in other fleddlngsl

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- Owing to the’ breakdown of the electric light at Candleinas, the groundhag had an ex- cellent opportunity of seeing its shadow. But, as a matter of fact, we have had no winter at all so far. ' ‘ i Congregational singing without organ ac- - ,. ' t proved wonderfully effective City Churches on Sunday. Should electric dis- location continue much longer, it ‘may be as well to have string orchestras in readiness to help out.

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Lent does not start till 19th, which is Ash Wednesday, but meantime in .the city we have to begin practising Lenten fasts and sacrifices at the instance of the electric light and power plant.

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Evidently Amherst has more taxis than it has business for. A group of Amherst taxi op- erators have protested to the town council 'the granting of further taxi licenses. They said that wiih eight “companies now operating there was hardly enough business and asserted that 10 ‘taxi cabs could look after all the business offer- ing. ' i Agriculture Minister Gardiner is still con- vinced cheap feed is the solution to increased hog production. He told Moose Jaw farmers that newspapers might put forward the idea that high income tax was the cause for low hag pro- duction “but you never heard a farmer talking about it.“ In an address at the Moose Jaw Board of Trade, Mr. Gardiner said that the main reason for low hog production was low feed supplies.

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General Piet Arnoldus Cronje, Transvaal military leader, died this date 1911; during the South African war he led the Boer forces with masterly technique, out-manoeuveriag the Brit- ish in various situations, and inflicting a severe defeat at Magersfontein in 1899; in the fol- lowing year his force was defeated and he him- self captured at Paardeberg. Cronje lived to take an active part in South Africa politics after the founding of the Union of South Africa under his former Boer colleague, General Smuts.

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ln 1919 the brothers Ross and Keith Smith, Australians, determined to enter for a flying prize of $30,000 put up by the Australian gov- ernment for the first crew to fly a British air- craft to Australia from England in 30 days. They won by making the run in 27 days, both were knighted and given an interest in the firm which sponsored them. Sir Ross is now dead, but Sir Keith celebrated the 27th anniversary of his pioneering flight when he arrived at Darwin in only five days recently by modern British flying boat on the some day as he had completed the long 27-day trip with his brother in 1919. i i a- k

' Mr. Vincent .1. Scaefer, of Schenectady, N. Y., is the research scientist who last November succeeded in manufacturing on artificial snow- fall by dropping dry-ice pellets from an airplane into a moisture laden cloud. Since the initial experiment Schaefer has been "snowed under" with requests ta "make it snow.“ A class of school children in Long Beach, Calif., some of whom never have seen snow, forwarded a bundle .‘ postcards asking “Would you please make us 1 " ‘Warm?’ St. Moritz, Swiss ski resort, asked about chances of obtaining more snow than it has and a score of ski centres in the Uni- lid States put in similar bids. About the only ones who didn't want snow were several resi- dents‘ of Buffalo, N. Y., on Lake Erie. They im- plared Schaefer to see what he could do about dropping their usual winter share of snow and blizzards into the lake instead of the city.

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Viscount Alexander told‘ the members of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metal- lurgyymeeting at Ottawa, that he once posed suc- cessfully as a mining engineer. He was in Burma and had to travel in 1942 thence to Eng- land as a civilian—not as a soldier. The Gov- errlor-General said he had pondered the ad- visability of calling himself a government of- ficial but that the idea hadn't appealed to him, And besides,‘ here was an opportunity to call himself’ a mining engineer, “as an expert in a profession which l have always wanted to be- long to. "Arid there was another reason,“ Vis- count Alexander chuckled. “l thought it quite possible that I might be questioned as to my work and activities, in which case l could truth- fully say that I had been working in the Yening Yaung oil fields in Burma. I had every right to say that, because in order to prevent the oil fields from falling into the hands of the Japan- use, I had the wells sabotaged under my gar-

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Federal Health Department officials, while pointing out that mental health facilities are far below requirements and training facilities for psychiatrists and psychiatric social workers need to be greatly expanded, believe there has been a considerable measure of progress since war‘s end. Planning committees will report to a meeting to be held in Ottawa this spring when it is hoped to shape a definite program of de- velopment which will pick up where it was drop- ped at the beginning of the war. In assessing the need for trained personnel, officials point out that approximately 100 lull-time doctors are needed to bring Canadian mental-hospitals up to hfficient strength. Even this would give a ratio of only one full-time physician to 200 patients. Some I20 psychiatrists ars neededrto staff men- tal health clinics-based on the need for one such clinic, carrying a psychiatrist, a psycholo-

ist and a social worker for each 1000M populo- tion. And 200 additional psychMfists are need-- sd in private practice-o conservative figure it is said as for n caring for the psychoneulraticb and various borderline groups in the community. As to prevention, it is in work with than malad- lasted people who are still in the communlr, that the hope lies of alleviating not only individual

suffering but also this Increasing burden ea the

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Fairy tales of the future will probably start out something like this: "Once upon a time, 1n g deep, dark international confer. ence, there lived a Russian who lied a veto. .-"—Woodstock Sentinel-Review.

Admiral Byrd points out that no woman has ever set. foot. an Antiifctlca. Several incurable bach- elors are reported applying for tlcketm-Edmanton Journal. '

Advarity simplifies our taste! and sharpens our desires. Back in the ‘twenties we heard with- out undue excitement, promises o.’ "two chickens ln every pot and two cars In every garage”. Today Canadians-or at. least. the udull. male portion of the popu- lntlan—a.re all ngag at the prom- ise that. sometime ln the near future, there may be two pairs of pants with every new suit.- iKingslon Whig-Standard.)

There is a new recreation on the horizon-roto-bowling. As the name implies. the game has much In common with ordinary bowl- lng. Ii 1s played on an alley ninety-foul" foot long and fifty- lwo inches wide. and the object ls to knock down as many as possible of the ten plns. The alleys are carpeted with felt and the metal-core pins are iricnsed lr. rubber. making the ‘game prac- tically noiseless. The sides of ih-r alleys are cushioned like those of n billiard table and there are two stationary "hazard pins" about halfway down the alley. The aft.- ener the player can bank the ball of‘! these, the higher his scare. The eighteen-pound. hollow alu- minum ball is not propelled by hand, but ls ejected from n spec- ially built machine which starts It whirling at speeds up to 4,500 revolutions per minute before re- leaslng.—(K.ltctiencr Record.)

Arriving late, the news photo- grapher surveyed tho banquet scene. He couldn't possibly get n shot at the 16'! employees who were receiving gold watches for long service; they were too spread out. Quietly slipping from_ his head table the president of the corporation-one of Canada's largesh-came aver to welcome rind assist the late comer. They shook hands and exchanged names. The photographer didn't catch the president's name‘, or if he did it failed to register. He set- tled on the idea of a head-table shot. "I guess that's where the big-shots sit?" he asked. “Yep." said the president grinning and siarilng back to lils place. “such as they are." It was an hour later when the photographer learned to vitiom he had been talking. “How was I to know?" he parrled. "His salt was as shiny as mlno."

News Items from Sllflllllleld- 1J1. The first all-woman Circuit court jury In Sangamon County history was sworn in to consider rin automobile damage suit. "The 12 woman argued all night long and then reported they couldn’: agree. They were dismissed. Such s stalemate shouldn't sur- prise anyone who has ever at- tended a business m-eetlng of a woman's club. When a bunch of woman gel. together to try to agree an anything, the going ls 10h! 011d Iiard. The trouble with an nll- femlnlne Jury 1s not that women don't take their responsibilities seriously. but that they take them too sr-rlously. It's a major problem to make up her mlrid about ant’- thing. Multiply that by 12—and you're bound to get. a stalemate.

-Oalga.ry Alberian. z The suburban WWII 0f Ll Grange has lust carnillfled l"

scgond your without a traffic fai- allty. This fact has been noted with commendation in the nn- tional publications of the Nation- al Safety Council. In the leaf; year, new slap signs have been erected in Ln Grange Hi @0089?’ cus crossings. Otherwise, .thc P01‘ lce chlcf, l-l. A. Oakes. has isiade no special gestures. such as high- ly publicized safely drives. to achieve this enviable recard., In- stead. ho bears down on his men for steady. day by day enforce- ment of the rules against speed- liig and other traffic hazards. as the best protection fan motor- ists and pedestrians alike. Th!“ his formula ls to enforce {be li.w and play no fnvarltes.—-Chi- cage Daily News-

Checr up! lt won't be so lonl before we have the first r999"! at the peed-i crop bclnk Yum“- -Brockvlllc Recorder and Times. Th, Qnfllell speculation on whether Princess Elizabeth is to marry Prince Philip of Greece must be highly distasteful to all immediately concerned. Roman“ must. find tho going iofllh l" "I atmosphere of gossip. 0! B119 "Id sometimes malicious comment. of iulsoma flattery. too. Elizabeth bus had to learn early that a princess seemingly destined l" b! queen has no private life. He!’ dutiful sublecls-to-be can argue that they have a very resl ln-ter- est in her matrimonial plans. If any. because her husband auto- matlcally wlu be Prince Oonlort and in a paeltlon to awleld iri- fluence In very high iaiarterl. ‘out love‘; young dreaui never Val Intended to stand the scrutiny of battalions of writers of letters to the newspapers, of politicians in

quest of a new topic-Ottawa Journal.

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Elisabeth Way. Malcolm Innat- fey. oi Milton. aloha up two youiig risen who imanbed a ride ostensibly for Toronto. Boon after pmceedlng on his way. one of them shaved what mused to be a n against, Ilohstteyk

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. TEMPERANCE ED065110“ NECESSARY

Blr,—'1‘he brewerlee of‘ cum}; l" Drtllflrllik for a greater boom. New and vest and “p.104,” 1111M! Bro being constructed. VMIOIY M1118 14141.. for example,‘ a" 11111141108 l ”.000.000 plant an Toronto's waterfront. and other companies are either building new or extending. They have the money and they plan to get; more. Even during the war when other corporations were cut to the quick with taxes at one kind and another. the brewers y were enormously increasing their pro- fits. They found a way In spite of the excess profits tax. Their stocks have never known depres-

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another Indication of the coming greater boom. Not. n newspaper, or magazine of any importance across Canada but carries those full-page ads of most attractive and interesting quality, conveying the impression that the brewers‘ as n class are the benefactors of their country. By law they are forbidden to publish their goods but they want. all Canada, and eilloolally the young and rising generation to remember their firm names and to believe that without. them and their contrib- utions to society, Canada would be poor. Indeed. Those full-page, illuminated ads cost. money; but. they have money to spend where it talks. It runs into five or elx millions. annually. This ls their campaign of cdu- cation at the present time. Be- fore, when they were allowed. they told us how fine was liquor as a pick-up when a man 1s tired, how effective n cure when a man in sick, and wlmt n blessing when a man 1s blue with trouble. Llq- uor. they said, is not a luxury ni. nil, but a necessity in every household. Now that they are de- biirred from direct advertising they resort to this other shrewd device. which 1s one at the most. artful over hatched.

What do tho brewers, us a class. care ivliat happens to this coun- try and its people so long as pro- fits continue to flow in? What do they core if they can get. prl- arlly on building materials If re-i turned men with wives and chil- dren have to llve in basements. attics. shacks or crowded like sardines in a tin in homes with friends? Those returned men, and some of them cripples for life for their country's sake, and the brewers prnte about their loyalty.

What do they care If the wo- men are now drinking as they never dld before? That ls just What they want. But read Dr. Sellgefs article, page f5. In the February number of Reader's DI- gest. how he finds 1n his waiting room “every afternoon a group of tragic women-housewlvcspro- fesslonnl woman. business girls, ranging In age.from 18 to 70. some wearing mink coats and some poor." all ill from drinking and looking for help. In every part of Canada drinking ls great- ly on the Increase among women and girls; and often those wo- man arr- molhcrs of families. What do Illf‘ brewers ciiro. so long as their profits flow in?

ha! do they care if drink sop-

rates husbands and wives and homes are broken up?

This ls Health Week and Wed- nesday Is Social Health Day. It ls n fact to which cvery doctor can testify that intoxicating liq- uor ls the chlct agency in caus- lng syptillitlc infection in many cases. Some authorities put it at. over 50 per cont. ,

Dr. Silcox in his radio address Saturday night. emphasized the necessity for teaching our young people moral self-control. It ls a fact, as every one knows. that drink robs men and women cf self-control and makes them reckless; and besides It lntlames the asslans. Look at. the statis- tlcs and you will find the more drink consumed the more saclal disease infection. Benefactors of society. lot-sooth! Is there any class we could better do without?

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Flash! Stnlins, Re- Election Conceded

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In the present election of in: Supreme Bovlet of Russia it, ls not that the most nomin- ated candidate ls Marshal Stalin. Hts name is being placed on the ballot papers» throughout the many wpibllce which form the Sovle}; Union. And here at last l4 an elec-

tlon which can be safely predict-

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Neither he nor any other official candidate o! the Communist Party need feel the anxiety of candidates in- our parliamentary system which we call democracy and the Russians call something else. For In Riusslii they manage these things more pfficlenily than we do. They waste no time 1n election con-tests. They never endanger demomscy by lei- llng it. get frito the ha-nds cf the people.