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PAGE FOUR to reoch_Churchill, early this month, brought some 500 tens, including o familiar item in Bay route trade-liquor-us well as glass, chinaware and motorcycles. In the list, also, were‘ steel castings for the mines at Flin Flon. Unfortun- ately, it appears that once again most of the snips will arrive in ballast. That remains the greatest problem for friends of the Hudson Bay route to overcome. Thcre can be no question itiat with the wider use of gyrmcompasses, radar, ice-breakers and other modern aids to navigation in Hudson S-frait, the season for the route can be materiol‘y lengthened. This wiil mean a potential expansion cf eastbound traf- fic. But unless the outgoing and incoming cargoes can be brought much more into balance than, they can today, tne Hudson 8Q route can- not serve to the full puposc for which it was designed."

TIIE BIIARLIITTETIIWII GUARDIAN

Morning Daily (Founded in I887) Authorized aa Second Clean Mall. Poet Ofllee e Department. Ottawa.

President. Ian A. Bur ; iieeffrealdent, win. a.

Bllflfliii Seep-Trees. G. M. Barnett; Editor run

"will!!! Director, .|. ll. Barnett: Aaaocinte Miro; , Frank Walker.

"Tho-Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.”

SATURDAY. AUGUST 23, 1947 Prof. Janzen's lllslt

Ik report carried in the Toronto Globe and Mail says that a leading Dutch dyke expert, Prof. P._Ph. Janzen, has arrived in Ontario as a guest of the government of that Province. He will_ spend a month there during which timg he will study Ontario's Hood problems. Prof. .lanzen is head of the department of engineering at Delft University in the Netherlands. He is credited with the fest and efficient repair of the many dykes destroyed by the retreating German; and Al'ied_bombings. Ontario hopes that Prof. Jan- zen will give advice that may save the Province thousands of dollars and provide adequate and permanent flood control facilities.

The Maritime Provinces are also interested in dyking and reclamation problems, particu- larly in land areas surrounding the Bay of Fundy and in the Cumberland Basin area. The Sockville Tribune-Post comes forward with the suggestion that the Muritimes should not let Prof. Janzen return to the Netherlands without making an effort to have him visit this area of Canada.

Certainly there is no doubt as to the qualific- ations of the Dutch to rank as the best dyke builders in the world. The greatest project in the Netherlands is the projected reclamation of the Zuider Zee. Work on this project was com- menced in I920. A main dam some twenty miles in length was constructed across the mouth of the Zuider Z-ee. The dam was so successfully constructed that in the space of a few short years this vast body of water was converted from a salt water bay to a lard-locked fresh water lake. The Netherlonders had a definite prg. gramme for the reclamation of the lands which now form the bottom of the Zuider Zee and this was so exact that the government could forecast when areas now under water would be producing agricultural products. The total area to be re- claimed under the project totalled some 553,500 acres. This was not a new scheme to the Neth- erlanders. Today much of their country and rrieny of the islands off its coasts have been re- claimed froni the sea.

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The gardens in the Square are looking their loveliest at present.

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St. Bartholomew. The twelfth Sunday after

Trinity-"His compassions fail not."

There were moth doodle in the City yester- day, notwithstanding Old Home Week is over, than there has been for many a day.

Closing banks ll a. m. on Saturday will riot signify much to the public, but opening them at 9 a. m. instead of ten will mean considerable to bank clerks.

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At last a champion of the comic book has arisen. One Josette Frank stated in Chicago that they ore actually benefiting children. The tneory is that after thumbing through innumer- able comic books the addicts finally learn to read.

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Some idea of the magnitude of Russia's man- power losses in the war is given by the fact that she is now making strong efforts_to repatriate Russians and descendants of Russioni from flll over the world. Cancdlufli, 0i “lime, l"? W" ticularly interested in tne camPOIQ" l° "lduce Ukrainians to return from this country.

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Ari interesting contrast of attitudes appears ' l ' r i ' Ml‘ m two reports from nord p.essed Britain. . D. R. Rees Williams, Labour M P.,A suggested a reduction of population by mass emigration as a solution to Britain's Jrrliculties._On the same day the redoubtable Mr. Churchill called upon intending emigrants to "Sray here and fight it y out."

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Various means arre be‘ng suggested to help the British in their crisis. Establishment of a Can- ada-wide Aid-to-Britain fund to which subscrib- ers would donate proceeds of an hour's work a week for one year was proposed by Maj. the Rev. John Weir Foote, V.C. of Orillia,‘ Ont. He made the suggestion at a memorial service in connec- tion with a re-union of the Royal Hamilton Light lnfantry.

Astronomical Trade Figures

Canada's external trade for the first six months of this year reached the unheard-of total °l $2,502,000,000, only $30,000,000 below that of the highest wartime half-year. lune exports totalled $272,000,000 highest of any peacetime month and a gain of more than 63 per cent over June of last year.

These are reassuring figures, but it would be unwise to anticipate list such trade prosperity can be maintained indefinitely. Canada's econ- omic relations with the United States are com- plicated by the growing deficiency of American dollars. Britain's necessity to balance her exter- nal trade has already reduced her buying in Canada and further restrictions on United King- darn purchaser in the Dominion appear inevit- able until the economy of the Mother Country recovers. ln addition, a large part of Canada's exports have gone o Britain and to other nations to whom Canada granted substantial export credits. These loans are rapidly being exhausted. Unless they are repeated or some international arrangement is reached to main- tain the purchasing power of other countries, , their buying from Canada will shrink. Canadians should realize that current tremendous soles abroad may be subject to sharp curtailment. This has been indicated plainly enough at the British-U. S. conference this week at Washing- ton.

It would help, suggests an Ottawa exchange, If the pronounced trend of Canadians to buy increasingly in the United States and progres- sively less in Britain, could be checked or re- versed. The paint has been reached where the United States itself must act to counteract the world dollar famine which is developing, and which is cutting down the ability of many coun- tries to buy American products. Any such move would provide an impetus to international trade and areatly benefit Canada.

Hudson Bay Prospects

i...‘ port of Churchill has now welcomed sev- eral corgo steamers from abroad, the vanguard of a fleet which, according to the Winnipeg Free Press, is expected to mean the most active season in the comparatively short history of the Hudson Bay,route—a short history that is, when measured from the opening of the 2,500,000- bushel terminal elevator in I93]. This is the second season of reguiar sailings since the wor Interrupted progress.

If the present objective of 5,000,000 bushels of wheat out of Churchill can be reached, it will be the largest amount yet shipped. This means emptying the elevator twice. As shipping is very scarce, the vessels plying the Hudson Bay and Strait will probably make two round trips apiece. An estimated l5 sailings will be required to move the wlrcat.

Apart from grain, another item prominently mentioned in pie-season plans was lumber. A hitch developed when the British ministry of shipping decided that, badly though it wanted this commodity for building, it could not risk delay in moving food from Churchill. Recent French extraction make up o homogenc reports indicate that this difficulty may hovesoc-‘ety. But because the Island is small and been overcame, and that sufficient stcvedorcs all its land i| occupied, many native sons and will be on hand to load at least a million feet daughters leave home (an estimated L000 o of lumber from northern Saskatchewan and year) and the population total is almost static. Manitoba. _ ' lSay the Islanders: 'Wo have three exports-q

Once again," notes the Free Press, Th; Abby will haul tleii of Incoming eorgo arises. The

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The fishing, lumber, mining and other activi- ties of the thriving port ol Prince Rupert, B. C. are attractively set torth and illustrated in a special edition of the Prince Rupert Daily News, just received. Our western contemporary is to be congratulated on its initiative. The issue was published on the occasion of the annual conven- tion in Prince Rupert of the Associated Boards of Trade of Central British Columbia.

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Sir Astley Paston Cooper, English surgeon, born this date I768; professor of comparative anatomy in Royal College of Surgeons, and'Presi- dent of the College from i827 to I836; he per- formed the famous operation of tying the ab- dominal aorta for aneurism; author of still popular works on anatomy, the best known being Hernia, and Fractures of the Joints.

O I i R The veto may be a curse, (says Montreal Ga- zette) but at least it lets the world know where it stands. It educates in realism. lf it dis-- courage: hopes, it at least prevents illusions. And if it should ultimately kill the hopes of the United Notions as an organization, it may also make clear the broad basis of the alliance that

will succeed it.

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Mohammedan: are campulsorily prohibition- ists yet a Turkish physician and psychiatrist, Dr. Etem G. Vassof now -n Montreal en route to Turkey has been studying at Arlington, Mass., the tonic effects of insulin in acute alcoholism having published his first paper on the subject in I946. Now, with his wife and I6-month-old ooy, he.i| returning to Istanbul to help cure

acute alcoholism there. k

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There are more wonders being revealed these days than the average mind can comprehend. Take the ear of a dog for instance; it is so tuned that it can hear a sound so high pitched and distant that no human ear can hear it, and that is why in the silence cf the night a watch dog so frequently pricks its cars. Then there is the flying of the blind bat. Ilepuzzled scientists how that bird could f'y unscathed through woods and forests sightless. But the discovery of radar during war solved it. Ornithoiogists found that bots are equipped with a radar beam which keeps them warned of any object in their way just as in shipping and airplaaiiig.

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This week's Time ITIUQTIZIITB contains on ap- preciative write-up of the Province in connection with the inauguration of tne Abegweit Ferry services. It concludes: "Tnere has been no wove of immigration since the early 1800s, and today islanders of English, Irish, Scottish and

"thcguos- potatoes, fish and brains.‘ first ship space f‘ tlrein all."

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U-Zlfiff" . Sarnl-r gives as an almost In-

ually men fined there for hut/i!!!‘ no muffin on his miichlhe. -Wlnd- scr SLii. ,

Ccmriiirnlrm isn't the only maker of etutlsts. What do Yxll suppose children think Wren a Sunday school picnic is rained out? - Peterliorough Examiner. l

Eligliih nure-ry school; condemn the sto _-' of Lille Red Riding Hood as cruel. Asa mrinleadinm Jlnce, modern wolvrs don't 100K like your grondrmtlxer. — Stratford Beacon:

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Prior-c must crime down or houses will ctip going up. InCrrliSEd pro- (lilCllVPiiy not. only 1n the building trade. but in all the pipe lines lead- liig tn "- is trio onlv thing that will rvclitc-i costs without affeclln Wages. -- Tfirrnbn Glob? and Mal.

We tlunli. .n any event, that the public i-nciila be on guard agslnst this urine-calling brulriess; the! it should lake a cllm vlew of the u; practice, so currently popular wlt certain writers anc speakers, of dubblnq every radical a, "Red" and every conservative a "Fascist." Such terms are alien to this

country, repfment ltile more than a jarrz ‘n lmpsrted from Europe \\‘hEI‘e raving ske1et~ ris about thelr ideological haies-qcveal a mood we should want u. shun and an. in- fellectuil poverty we should dc- splse — Otlarla Jowniil.

The vast rninesivcr-plng operation which is making the oceans safe again ior wax-d shipping ls now nvarinv, CMHpLFilOIl. The bleets of 13 nafons are co-operaflrig in this work of whit-h the largest share has f.i".an to Royal Navy. It ls the biggest lob of mine clearance lnl

his-iory and a-ms at freeing n11 European waters for the unrestricted mizvem-nt cf snfppmg by next year. Today-after-two years of patient labor always under the threat of sudden danger- 440.600 square miles are now entirely clear of mine; _ UK Information (irfflce.

. Regina's pllhllc was not: permitted to see i picture that liacl hung for wed-cs '1'l the Nstif rial Gallery at Ottawa and in British exhlbltlonsl before that. Dlrectcus of the Cair- adian National Eroliiblllan are will- ing to six-ow lb. but prevLus book- ings fr; the touring collection of pictures make tllis impossible. Uri- hoppllv. frcm now on "Reclining Nude" zvill take on the ssme sinister Siliniflcuice fa‘ some which 1n liter-

ary circles foLows time banning of |. book - Vancrrvcr sun.

Because the job le primarily a 108C111“; one, i 1s perhaps not. a bad Ping that trie provincial gnvewunont ling finally chosen s, teacher and not s medtcsl doctor to dirac. Britsh Columbia's ln-l divlduul and collective Lfilnklng in the matter or alcoholic beverages. H L. Cnmpbel chief Inspector of

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FCIIOSIY. 1.21s been unpainted to this "CW 90b1, Ht an under-proof salary of $6.00 ribs expenses. This l, SCmlTWlCfl less than the $10,000 g, year wlflLll .lsi"ea to attract n 00m- petent medical expert, But it ls promised lhut Mr. cnmpsejj Wm have access to trlir, begr medlcal advice as he goes about ll]; task - Vancouver Sun.

Reliable motorists will find little Bllfflrlse 1n figures on the causes of irailic tragedies issuer: by m. J. M. Roussel. Montreal medic-g- lvzol eroert. whose grlm duly n. n; to make posl-morrcms 11rd testify at lrrquests-trie ugly nzrebegteqg of hfgmvay cuishes. Fifty percent. of all llllfll. accidents in the pro. vines are. hi: says, the result of drunken driving, rind sfnqg 1);, Revere‘ has ll-‘eh silica upon fol‘ 1b years to medically examine death- Car drivers who might b-. suspected o! drunks-anew, he is in n position to know -- Montreal Gazette.

Just as trui- an they were the 5°11’ "W! wen written are words °l Ell’! Wile? 9r Wilcox, Where, are two kinds of people on can}; today-The people who lift and l-he people wno 1 r: " Leaners are by no means spiel In number. Half 0! u! s!‘ back and watch the other do the hard wc-rk. We do not 568m la care who aoes it We just know some one does it and that lr, Eels dam? in sme way or other. But we may be thankful for the llflefgl Mid SIT-Phil for (he basics bhoy p91.- lfirm so caoatlv. And we know their efforts are n.:t ln vein. for they‘ have made this country what, l; l; ~Go1ssry Alba-flan.

llallstnnea ‘are pa! in Italy and cause of dlilfllge lo crops. gay; rm; N..." York TLIIICS; H8110; the prgsld@nt of thi- Milan Fair Association ting offered 103,000,030 lire at next yegflg exposftivi to anyone who grin dgvlgg a morhod fm preventing hall. storm. dwa LEKEGSIiKH-rg have bu“ mode rublle and pronounced un- acceplnbc. Or» l; an uwrfl_a1rcraft b31638 aimed to eXplm-lp 1n! {he middle of the, offending you‘; Th, other L; l e use of the now top.

tlculirrly severe mllllms of lire

Power (In Saskatchewan News) 1'1 By 1945 the deficit. accumulat-

first 16 years of operation had been whittled down b0 $14,682.52. and the stage wiis set for post-war expansion.

Shortly after becoming Minister of Natural Resources. Hon. J. L.

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credible sun-v o; p011“ com; pro.‘ ed during the Power Commisslorts ' recluse A maorcycle Ildu‘ has act-

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the Power Commission. when L A. Thornton, Chairman of the Com- mission since its inception. was superannuated In January of 1945. Mr. Phelps appointed H. P‘. Berry to succeed hlm. Mr. Berry came to the post following years of experience In the. power utilities field ln Saskatchewan and Iowa. O I O

An accelerated Power Commis- slon program envisioned by Mr. Phelps was three-fold:

1. Implementation of the pro- gram recommended by the Royal Commission on Saskatchewan's Power Resources In i928. namely, to acquire the province's power re- sources ss mpubllcly-owned util- lty; 2. Construction of a provincial grld of transmission lines, to re- place the disorderly conditions pre- vailing under several independent, companies;

3. A system of lower and unl- foi-m rates for comparable consum- ing areas, to replace the chaotic rate structure which faced consum- ers, both within the independent utilities’ and the commission's sys-

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3. A system of lower and uniform rates for computable consuming areas, to replace the chaotic rate structure which faced consumers. both within the independent utili- ties’ and the commission's systems.

The originally-conceived goal of a single ownership of s11 power sys- tems in the province was pushed two steps closer to fruition during 1945. The common stock of the Dominion Ellectrlc Power Company was bought by the Commission. and for over a year the company was operated as l1 wholly owned sub- sidiary before being completely absorbed by the Power Commission. In November of the some year the Prairie Power Com-parry was fill!‘- chased outright for $1,462,000.

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These two purchases, together with new construction, added 860 miles of transmission lines and almost doubled the number of Commission customers.

High rates which had applied be- cause of patchwork generation and transmission system hampered con- sumers generally, and the Commis- sion instituted its first rate reduc- tlon in May, 1946. It covered prac- tlcally all towns and villages on the commission system. and coincided with the first. step In bringing a- bout. a uniform rate structure tn towns formerly served by the Do- minion Electric and the Prairie Power Company systems and those served by the Power Commission.

Despite the loss of revenue result- lng from the closing of military and alr force Installations and the new lower rate, the Commissions‘ profit jumped from $32,477.37 in 1944 to $155,335.15 1n 1945 -slashlnrz two-thirds from the accumulated deficit at one stroke.

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A banner year urns rolled up fn 194-6. On June l the second rate re- duction became effective. Electrical revenues increased approximately 50 per cent. over 194.5 ns a result of a 60 per cent. increase tn retell aisles. The new lower rates encour- aged people to use more current. When the year closed, the books showed a surplus of “ILMM. which cancelled the deficit accumu- lated over the years and chalked up the first, accumulated surplus in the history of the Commission, s- rnountlng tia $339,700.12. For the first time since its establishment the “askatctiewan Power Commis- sion was out of the red.

An extensive gram during the year brought the commission's transmission system up to 2.061 miles of llne serving 259 towns and villages, with 28.014 cus- tomers. as well l5 the cities of Saskatoon, Swift Current. and North Bsltleford. New connections during 1946 totalled more than those made during the 10-year per- lod lwi-IMJ.

In three years the Commission's capital assets increased from $9,097,- 535 l0 $13.1236,840.

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A highly significant. step in trans- mission llne construction was taken during 1946. The llne from Estevan to Stoughton, first 68,000 volt llnk to be canstructedWn Saskatchewan, was built and put into operation. When the trunk line ls extended north through Gi-enfell. Melville, Yorkton rind Canorn to Sturgla, power generated at. low cost lri the Estevan coal fields (more cheaply than by diesel engine) will be distributed throughout the whole eastern portion of the province.

Eetcvsfls coal fields are already benefltllng Saskatchewan power users much more than before the purchase of the Doanlnlon Electric and Prairie Power Companies. Previously, coal mined at Estevan was shipped tio power plants in the larger cltles for conversion Into electrical energy. and in one cake this power was transmitted back

fanfllar at seems ti, be running first n: n unsy- -ersiil panicea for all men's ills,

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THE BLIND

» Hui darkness held no colour and no beauty; _ No Immorniu of green-ma chang-

8 i"; No moon shone in his night how- ever lovely It shone on Galilee.

Perhaps ibis soul cried out for loveliness Groping along tme Joylesa, lonely