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one of [I19 greatest 2155615 t0 Callflda‘; W51‘ Him, i, ,,,.,,\;,,_. p) in- gm organization which in Insist-tinn- \~..t.s llUddCkl ll)’ ll}?- Camdlan Corps Qulllllliilleltl‘, kjcucral McNaughton. A! He“. 5,-1,,,,r1-l,@_v should know, General Mc- Naughton is a grant scientist as well as a great 5014i“; and before the war his scientific know" ledge and vx Jiuncc were devoted l0 directing me “rm-l,- pf ilie Xntibilal Research Council, with a staff under l1i111 selected from the cream of the llominiorrs scientists. Speaking the other dnv in TV-rnntt», .\llllllllOl‘lS Minister C. D. Howe exirlziiiictl how, zinioilg other things, the labor- atories of the Research Council are developing new processes for nlaltitig new types of war ecpiipnietit. Many of these are being adopted in other countries.

Tm Councils researches have been partic- ulztrlv Sllfiwv- Yul in promoting the manufac- “m, 1,,‘ .,.,.i-,,__' pus; in Qzinmlzl, a new industry which today Lats reached truly amazing PTO- portions. Caziada is today the sole producer of certain of this valuable equipment.

Cannda has zil~o been given full member- ship in the Combined Production and Resources Board, aiong with Britain and the United States, "as recognition," Mr. Howe says, “that we are the third largest producer of munitions among the ztilicd nations." The most powerful explosiw of the war is now being manufactured in Canada by a process developed by Canadian scientists and the Canadian process will be largely used by our allies.

The armatlrl of more than 800 ships that re- cenlly moved into North Africa carried some 40,000 Czinndiati mechanized vehicles. Canad- ian armor-piercing shot has revolutionized the making of this type of equipment, which prev- ious to (Innndak entry into the field was made of high-grnile [mil steel. 'l‘oday this shot is bc- ing made from a lmv-ullny type of steel, which is doing a more deadly job than the steel costing four times as much.

“Our most spectacular expansion," says Mr. lfowc, “has been in the production of alumin- um. Canada now has the largest aluminum plant in the world, expanded sevenfold since the war began. This plant now has a capacity great- or than the entire world production of alumin- um in 1939. Canada is also producing magnes- ium by a process invented in our own research laboratories, which is being widely adopted in the United States. I believe that ours is the low- ut cost magnesium produced anywhere."

Canada. exports large and increasing quan- tities of copper, lead and zinc to United States bud imports manganese, chrome, tungsten, molybdenum and vanadium. But-again with the aid of the National Research Council- large deposits of chrome have ‘been found in Manitoba and-Quebec, and production will start early in 1943; molybdenum has been found in Ontario and Quebec and is being developed, and tungsten has been discovered in Brjfigh Columbia, where a mill is to be built which will ltlpply almost all of Canada's requirements,

To come closer home, it was in the National Research laboratories that the dehydration of yegetables was perfected as a commercial pm. cess, enabling plants to be established through- out the Maritimes and other part! of Canada ls an essential wartime activity.

S_______€___ Liberal Rifts Apparent

r fl/hile the net result of Monday'| Federal by- election is the transference of one Quebec seat from the Liberal to the Independent column, the trcnd disclosed in the popular vote is re- garded by the Sydney Post-Record (Independ- ent) as fnr more ominous fortheKingMinistry than the outcome by constituencies indicates. One conrliisirtii which stands out so clearly that Q\'(‘l'_\‘(')ll(‘ must zlcccpt it is that French-speaking Quebec has llIrllUl definitely and emphatically against the Liberal regime at Ottawa. Char- lcroix-Snqiicinrv run certainly he regarded as a

typical hrviivli-fXlnndiim constituency, as there rm- unly n hmrlitil of linglisli-spcakiiig voters srltttt-iwl lhrouglioiit the riding. In the Federal clectioit of 1910 the Liberal vote was 14,386 and that pvtllul hr tln- tjoiiscrvalivc or National Gov- ernment Cillltllllillt‘ only 5.198. in the I959 Pro- vincinl t-lt-ctirtn lH-rmicr‘ Dnplcssis was unable to got :1 Vmlni .\':iti~n:il candidate to accept no- llllllilllirli in thurlwnix-Szicticiiziy, which uras cnrrirrl l|_\' the invlllllrlll lkirty by acclzunation. The lo» of ~ll\’ll n rrtiistitileiicy by ihc Liberals in a livli-rril l)_\'L‘-l'lt‘i'lliill cannot but he regard- ed as :1 cl :11" indication that the long grip of LlbCfflllFlil on tho Province of Quebec has been

(n1"|]|\l<‘1(‘l_\' l)l't|l{l'll. The election 0f General Ln-Fls-vbn in fhitrvmnnt can curry little comfort tn Prciilivi‘ .\l.'l\‘l\'l‘llZl(' King sn far :15 the French latigurtsgc clcctorntv nf Quebec is concerned. Bate- l_v 35% of the population of Outremont is French (Tanndiati, the other 65 per cent being prvrltllllillflllily British, and entirely English- syiraking. Uutremont \\':1s one nf the few Que- licr vmtstitilcttrit-s which voted “yes” in the 1111m- p-nrvr plebiscite last April, and yet even in Uutrcmont the Liberal majority ivas cut in half. The. King Government, recalls the Post-Re-

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C0111. has been unlucky in most of the_b)"°l°¢' tion contests which have taken place since Mr. King snatched an electoral victory in 194° by exploiting an anti-conscription appeal in Que?“ and an ail-out war pledge in English-speaking Canada. But Monday's election results demon- strate that the tcmporizing war record of the ,Ministry finds favor neither in the French lan- Iguage no, in the English-speaking parts of Can- ada. Mr. King found political trimming profit- able in peacetimes, but when "the blast of war" blows in a. Prime l\linister’s ears, it is a call to forceful leadership and definite, uncompromis- ing, purposeful action.

.- EDITORIAL NOTES-

It is interesting to note that Mr. Brockington, K.C., returned to Ottawa from London before Prime Minister King made his Pilgrim SPCQ-Zll at New York.

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Hoarders and black-marketers have got what should have been coming to them anyway in the govemment-financed reduction in the retail price of coffee, tea, etc. Under the new economic policy this will happen again and again, reach- ing out into all other commodities to prevent storekecpers hoarding their goods in the hope of enhanced profits later.

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Taking a stranglehold on the Eumpie lum- ber industry, the Germans now have established a. central office in Berlin, which, through grant-

r ing or withholding clearing service for payments,

will check every lumber deal henceforth con- cluded between the continent and Sweden and Finland, the two big exporters of lumber. Swed- ish and Finnish applications for export licenses must henceforth be addressed to the Berlin cen- tral office, which also arbitrarily fixes prices. Other infra-European organizations for trade, principally the Comite International du Bois, have been liquidated by the Germans. n- a-

Mr. R. C. Milner, K.C., who is to preside at the Conservative Convention in Winnipeg next week was born in 1889 at Sackville, N.B., where his father, William C. Milner, was a lawyer and newspaperman. The first Milner in New Brunswick was a missionary, and the roots of the family are deep in the provinces by the sea. His mother was Althea Smith. After graduat- ing from Dalhousie Mr. Milner was called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1911 and in the same year settled in Edmonton, where he has practised law since. He served in France in the First Great War; and was president of the Alberta Conservative Association for 10 years.

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Martin Van Burch, eighth President of the United States, born this date, I782; was Gov- ernor of New York in 1828, Vice-President of the United States four years later; succeeded Jackson as President in 1837, and, continuing the disastrous financial policy of his predecessor brought on the crises in 1839 when many banks stopped payment, and when he ran for re-electimi in 1841 and again in 1848 when he was defeated. One of the outstanding blunders of his regime was his opposition to the annexation of Texas which proclaimed its emancipation from both Spain and Mexico in 1836; it remained an in- dependent republic till I845 when it was ad- mitted as a State to the Union; it seceded dur- ing the Civil War 3nd‘ was re-admittcd in 1870.

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One of the changes in procedure under the new military Mobilization set-up is the exam- ination of every man in the classes liabl¢ to compulsory service by army medical boards, in- stead of by private physicians as at present. The practice of calling men found unfit by civil- ian doctors for a second examination by a medi- cal board of review now is general and where these boards find a man fit, he is called into the army. An army examination in the first in- stance would enable men found unfit to plan their future with confidence and enable employ- ers to place them in jobs where they were cer- tain to remain for the duration of the war, If in proposed to issue certificates to men found unfit for military service or whose call-up is postponed. These certificates will replace the letters now sent to the men and are necessary because Selective Service offices have been in- structed to require men applying for work m present evidence that they have complied with military call-up regulations.

a w a a To a considerable extent—perhaps a greater extent than moat of us realized-Elliott Little’: memorandum and draft of proposed Selective Service Regulations, says the Gazette, merely consolidate existing law. Most of the new ma- terial may be summed up in two words, “com- pulsory transfer." Is compulsory transfer of labor necessary here and now P After eight months as Selective Service Director, Mr. Little is eon- vinced that it is, and his own summary of the memorandum tells why: "Aggregate demand,- of our amied forces, war industries and civilian in-

able supply. In addition, substantial expansion of both the anned forces and war industry is un- der way." A: things stand, equally essential industries are poaching skilled men from each other to the detriment of the common effort.

ing priority and giving mobility to our labor force is an urgent necessity. m ,1! n- 1r

New Guinea and the Solomons battles are not

. the keys to the war down there, say: Major-Gen. l Odlum.

“They are only incidents. The real keys are Rabaul and Singapore, the Singapore that once was ours but is now the Southwest Rwcific bastion for Japan. Do not be misled by the Solomons or New Guinea; when we turn on Itabaul and Singapore the tide has turned. The Japanese are determined to win; they show great endurance and an initiative that is surprising. Frankly, I'd rather face a German division than a Japanese. The Germans say as _we do that they'll fight to the last man and the last round; but when the point comes they will surrender. But the Japs do fight to the last man and you have to kill hint. While we may not adtnirc that

dustries for manpower now exceed our avail- of

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Food lm t, so Goering put up to mantis: promises about Germany’: winter supply. Nobody would have believed Iitler. —-'l‘or- onto Telegram.

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fund to fight Germiima will be re- $111104 1n British Columbia. to fight k flliliet,‘ at least, p’ something, or urea res oug not 1n the same class as the Nazis, are memies all the same. —Van- oouver Dally Province.

Informed olrolu It Ottawa think that the events 1n North Africa have brought measurably nearer the till! when the Canadian Army will strike the enemy "with its full force." ‘Ihe British and American generals on the battle fronts sflv they have just. made n. beginning. Sir Stafford Crlppe and U. 8

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the . ‘lilo tide of war has not only turned but is rolling fart. -Bre.nt:ford Expositor.

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model Ibrd as preum for rez- lstrltion 1n ‘the month of July 1:1 Victoria. 171m e in f

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try police station, bright and shining, with only 50 miles on Iver speedometer. e police ser- geant was curious and the story bold b0 111m was that the car was bought 15 years n80 by an elderly farmer. The purchaser was given some instruction as to the method of making 1t go. but after the sales- man left one try convinced hrlm that he would never master its in- tricacies. So he pushed it into a shed hid it wider a tarpeulln, and left the darned thing there. Fifteen years later the new owner found out. about it and bought it. —Austral.tan Newsletter.

The man who wrote "Mein Kampf" had oonstdemble ability to estimate events in advance. to fore- see the effects of given political and military causes He undervaluv“ spiritual factors But he now knows something of the strength of hu- manity's ove of freedom and jus- tice. He can see new armies rising against him. He cannot tool hlm- self about the future, His imagin- ation has already pfctured the and of the war and the face he sees is the face of defeat. He won't run e- way. He won't be allowed to. Even now he can't get away from his own fears of disaster. Even while boasting of plans for visiting new honors on enemies his own terror haunts him and speaks in his own words. --Cl11'lst‘l11n Scl- cnoe Monitor.

Medlnlear legends tell of rocks, of man-eating trees, of the gold ships of and Hiram that touched at the island on the way from Ophir 1n Africa, and of a. pirate republic, Libertatlo, where every man was free, relates The New York Times Slave traders of all enter- prising nations raided there Yankee whalers lingered. and some of the inhabitants today are said to have a strong New England east: of countenance. Madagascar rice, carried to Charleston in 1699, gave the Carolina rice fields their start.

Now that we are hearing so much of the chaining of rlsoners of war it may be appropr ate to recall a story of Sir David Baird, who lost an arm at Corunna, where he suc- ceeded to the command after the death of Sir John Morn-t- B.ll1‘d'S mpatience of disposifg. L! tritor- lous, and .11! the capta n o1 n High- land regiment in India. at the age of 23, his temper was sorely tried

All, the conqurer of the Camatic. in 1780, remaining 1n custody tcr four years News reached Baird's home in Haddlugton that he was "chained to a sspoy." “God help the ‘chiel’ that's cheened Nit’ nor Davie!" was his mother's comment. -Ma.nchester Guardian.

The country L1 rapidly becominz a. military camp and a paradise for bureaucrats. and lush military os- talblishments and great Burenwralfc organizations for the control and di- rection of this nrd that are arising all over. Are all ttrse things neces- sary? N0 doubt those who create them think so But are they in n.

ttiom to give an independent. figment? The official guardian of thelgulbllic purse 1s Parliament But; Par ent is not organized to deal with the termendous volume oi wartime expenditure. 1t gets its estimates in masses too big fcr ef- fective analysis, and its committee on expenditure, though it sits be- tween sessions, never really catches 11p with its job. —Vencouver Prov- nee,

Servicemen’; underclothlmr, pyja- ma: 1n particular, has, 1 think, been sufficiently aired (if 1 may so put it) in this column by new, so this is 1n all probability a p p. c. para- ifl/Ph. More people than sup,.os:d are a ntly content to sleep in their ay-llnen ( 1 um not speak- ing. 0f course, of acllvo service). though it hand] seems a practice to be ndvocat . A naval writer, who went straight from Oxford to the lower deck, declares him- self ntmmded at the scrupulous cleanliness of the British sailor. and mention: that in the Navy a rating on entry is kitted up com- completely (which does not, 1:1- clude pyjamas), and gets the sum 6a. a quarter for "kit up- kee ," out of which he can well ai- fonl to buy pyjamas, which cost at

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present at Service stores ‘is. 1d. So when the trit of Night swiftly walks over he western wave the e that it (7 she) will find m suitably clad. —<bondon

Wlut is puzzling in the way in which the generation bum after line last war seems cut off from the culture which preceded it. They all seem to know D. 1-1, Lawrence, Aldous I-lwdey. W. A. Auden, a. lit- tic of Proust, something of Bertrand Russell. T. B. Eliot, and Ernest Hemingway; if they are of the Left they have read a good deal of- Mary and Ilenln, and, more 00-- cuionally, ‘rrotsky’; History. But they know llttie of Dickens or

rge Eliot, Meredith; Scott they declare un- readable, and moat o1 the nine- teenth century poets are known by anthology laces. Flew of them have ever read Bible except as e task at school. They are beginning to re- read Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Doatoevzkl, and there is a small group of Trollope enthusiasts and a snaller cult of Jane Austen.

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o, Profelnr r. CLYDE AUl-D. MA. B-C-L. (our!) Professor of Roman Lew uni Inrbprndcnoe, Unlverlity If

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I (Editor's Note -- Professor Auld mattend, we o! the British no" lson of m0 11m Mr. oeorgc Auld of have not eumntdlrm m: this city, is a veteran of the Great folly-but let me remin YW War, graduate of Prince of Wales l- very’ agent English wonrpn College, 8A., and MA of maul. uid- " I Wm o not www- nca. of Oxford, n. n. Middle It h not to t“ "1

Temple, mndon; a mernbe of the .1311: of En land, of Prince Edward Island, nn of Ontario; has been for several years on the executive of the Workers Educational As- ‘sociatlon; Treasurer of - the Can- adian Association of Adult- Educa- tlo ; Vice-President; of the Labor 'Research Courwll; was lecturer ln Law at New College, Oxford; was i associated with the late Ml‘. G. B. Inman, K.O., Charlottetown; junior partner in a firm of lawyers lu Toronto before receiving hi: pre- profeuionni wmlntment; editor of man of the moot Import- ant law pub cations in Canada.)

My subject 1| one which. in one sense. is stale from repetition. it ls a. hardy erenntal, so far u do- bating socle lea are concerned; and lltlcan has, somewhere

papers, the outline of l. ,s'peech upon it, that he can use when all other ideas fall hlm_ In ianother sense, however, it is the

most vital question that Canadian citizens are called upon. 1n these troubled days, to consider.

' The gGIIIIIOCIGSI-O way ofullfo gen been c a enge upon a es. Old and venerated ideals -— the right of every man to life, liberty and the pursuit '01 happiness - government of the people, by the people and for the people-then slogan; are nowwdayl repeated, for the most part, in a half-serious banterlng sort of way. as 1f their chief merit lay 1n a certain quaint- ness, a certain old-fashioned flav- our. -

l We must bear 1n mind that the democratic spirit 1a very very silent, under- oppresslon, in- ‘most of the earth. I11 Europe, it burns bright and clear only in one great". little nation: it ls for from moribund in England (and, I must . add in écotlrmd and Northern Ire- ‘land) but, even there, the demo- cratic way of life is subject to at- tack, and must make necessary but dangerous sacrifices. Demo- cracy has. for the time being, dis- aPPelued 1n Asia, except perhaps among the peoples of the Chinese Republic who, 1n some ways, nre democratic even beyond our way of irhlnklng. One speaks with diffi- ‘dence and caution about South America. For the most. part, a. veil of censorship hides from our eyes the internal dlssensions of the peoples in that vast continent. Th1; much we may say. however- the spirit of the great liberators, Isuch as Bolivar, is not much in i evidence 1n these days- The picture 1n North America is not too bright. The specioulvex- lcuse: “We must get 0n with the gwar“. has been invoked to Justify pegimes in which old constitutional ‘privileges, individual rights, at- tained only after centuries of Kstruggle, have one by one been taken away. There is 1m old bro- verb Inter nrma lcges silent, in the clash of war the laws must hold their peace. Let us be sure that the laws are silent only 1n the event of direct necessity, and that our judges and legislators, though mute, are watchful for the sleep lot easy acquiescence may all too easily pass int: 1pc ‘sleep of death.