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Anodsteldltonzrrenkwelber and Lien-In A. Burnett, ILQNJKI. tOI Aetlve Borneo]

‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker The} (he Weakest Ink.”

FRIDAY, miwu o. ms Arrant Hypocrisy

In his recent radio speech Prime Minister King declared with resounding emphasis:

"Throughout the years of the war. we have sought to keep down party strife. We have sought to ovoid giving even the excuse for un- necessary controversy. We have felt that with all arms of the fighting services facing a terrible ordeal of laattle, they should, if at all possible, end for as long a. time as possible. command a united front at borne."

Is it conceivable that Mr. King imagines he has fooled any intelligent person iii Canada with such clap-trap? As the Oltaiua Journal dis- gustcdly l'€fll2ll'l\'SZ Here is a Prime Bliiiistcr who has tried to keep the waging of this war as a private party enterprise. Canadians of all political faiths and creeds have fought and giv- en their sons and paid taxes and contributed to loans and other war drives, but Mr. Kitig has insisted throughout that only Liberals can have a say in thc \var's direction. A Progres- sive Conservative may go to the front, or org- anize a Victory Loan drive, or put up all thc money he can lay his hands on for taxes; he must not bu a member oftlie Cabinet, and lie must not be appointed to the Senate, and he mustn't be appointed to the Bench. Such things are only for Liberals —- part of the patronage which from the beginning of this war to the present hour Mr. Mackenzie King, as a dispenser of patronage, has controlled for his friends and partisans precisely as he controlled it for his friends and partisans in days of peace.

The McNaughton Fiasco

Prime Minister King used loudly to coni- Pill" about the Progressive Conservative lead- er, Bin-Bracken, not having a scat in the Coiii- nioiis. 'I‘l_ie party is competently led there by a House leader, Mr. Graydoii, but that did not satisfy Mr. King. He claimed it was undemo- cratic fcr Mr. Bracken to make political speeches without having a seat. What excuse therefore can he give for the hlcNatigliton fiasco? It is now over four months since General McNaugh- ton replaced Colonel Ralston as Minister of Defence, and he continues to administer the business of his Department without having a scat in either branch of Parliament. Over- wliehiiingly defeated in Grey North on Feb- ruary 5 the General has done nothing since of public note except to scold the electors who rc- jected him, and to threaten to carry on the fight against “thc reactionary Tories" when the next occasion presents itself. Meanwhile this sea.‘- less Minister of Defence in Canada! War Cab- inet, continues complacently to exercise all the duties and authorities of an office which the constitution says may only be held by a mem- ber of Parliament.’ V‘

To make the case even worse, Prime Min- ister King has coolly intimated to the people of Canada in a nation-wide radio address not only that this intolerable situation is to remain unchanged, but that the defeated General hic- Naughtnn will run the Department of Defence without s seat in the House for another four months or till sometime next June or there- lfter. Nothing comparable to this, says the Sydney Fort-Record, has been known in the self-governing British world in the era of re- sponsible government. And yet Mr. King and Mr. McNaughton have the effrontery to jeer at “Tory reaction." There has been no such a sample of “Tory reaction" since Canada be- some s Dominion.

Why The Rhur ls Vital

With the capture of Cologne and thc gen- eral Allied advance along the Rhine, the battle of the Ruhr, which has been carried on by air since i943, is now entering its final phase. Not even the tremendous blows struck by Russia are as vital, in deciding the fate of Germany, as is victory itt this area. On it dc- pends the effectiveness of the Nazi war niach- ine to e quite essential degree. Here are some statistics worth noting:

The Ruhr and the adjacent area of the Rhineland contain a concentration of industry without parallel anywhere in the world. The heart of this area consists of a belt ten to fifteen miles deep from North to South and forty inilcs long from West to East lying bcliiiid the deep protection of the Rliinc, Germany's greatest river. The area is almost continuously built up, and contained in i942 nearly 3,500,000 in- habitaiits, a considerable increase over the 1933 census figures, significant of the Riilir's over- riding industrial importance. TilC centre of thc belt around Essen is mainly dcvotcd to coal- mining and also contains thc Krupp works, the most famous of Germany's large armament and heavv engineering plants. Esscn's importance in the transport network is indicated by the fact that 25 per cent of the total freight traffic of the Reichsbahn is dcspatchcd from tlicrc, while Duisbcrg, closely adjacent, is tlic largest iii-

_' land port in Europe. Herc are cciitrcd most of ' the steel works and important synthetic chemi- i’ cal plants. To the south lies a tiiixcd iiidtistrinl

area, notable for accumulator factories (llagcn). textile manufactures (Wuppertal), and fine steel fabrication (Remschaid and Solingen), it in- eludes the Duesseldorf headquarters and ad- ministrativc centre of the German steel indus- m. The Ruhr possesses the finest deposit of

metric tons, 68 per cent of the entire Reich out- put, and even more important is the produc- tion of coke. essential in the manufacture of steel; the Ruhr provided 33.6 million metric tons, 7O per cent of the Reich total, and export- ed 59 per cent of its output to other parts of Germany. It produced nearly 13,000,000 tons of pig iron, 72 per cent of the Reich total, 16,- 000,000 tons of steel, 7o per cent of theReicli total. The Ruhr has a very large electric power

system of its kind in the world.

i-EDITORIAI. NOTES-

Next week our Legislature meets, to be followed later by the meeting of Parliament, though no date has yet been announced for the

latter.

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The puzzle is——what constitutes a Canadian force? Twenty-five or thirty per cent originals and seventy-five or severity per cent British re

iiiforcenients? Or what? - a

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Nobody would be surprised were Prime Min- ister King to manoeuvre to have aii extension of Parliament with the connivancc of the C. C. E's. He has pledged himself there would be no extension, but the C. C. F.’s haven’t, so what more natural than that the latter should "per- suade" 'iim to change his mind. Both are in bad with the electorate, and neither has any immediate prospects of surviving a general election.

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Mr. S. E. Stewart, of Smiths Falls, Ont., was re-elected president of the Young Pro- gressive Conservatives of Canada. The election of officers took place at s meeting held at the conclusion of the annual convention of the Do- miiiion Progressive Conservative Association. Other officers elected were: Vice-presidents, Robert Hodge, Montreal; Miss Gwen \Vard, Calgary, and E. G. Peterson, Kirkland Lake, Ont; secretary, Neil MacDonald, Ottawa; treasurer, john Trimble, Hamilton.

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Aii act providing for the insurance of vet- eraiis of this war by the Dominion now is in effect, having been proclaimed in the Can- ada Gazette. The act, passed at the last session of Parliament, enables veterans to ob- tain insurance at low rates, in multiples of $500 tip to $10,000, without medical examination. It is administered by the Veterans Department through the Civil Service Commission, and ap- plication foi such insurance must be niade to the department. '

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The Liverpool (N.S.) Advance, which was founded on March l, i878, issued a birthday number last week, which was a credit to thc institution and its editor-proprietor, l\Ir. Cecil Day, formerly of this city and Little York. It consisted of eighteen pages, all sct iii new and readable type, well made up, and with numer- ous advertisements all well and artistically dis- played. Mr. Day learned the rudiments of his

profession on the Charlottetown Gilardian, which he followed up on the New Glasgow Evening News before going to the Liverpool Advance in i931 as its third editor, and ultimate proprietor. v - -- e a war"

Jules Cardinal Mazarin, French statesman, died this date 166i; born in Prescina, Italy, edu- cated in Paris where he won the favour of Richelieu, and became a naturalized French subject in i639; created a Cardinal in 164i; on the death of Louis XIII, two years later he became chief adviser to the Queen Regent, Anne of Austria; concluded the Thirty Years’ War by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648; his home policy was hampered by his Italian birth, his oppressive war taxation and personal avarice, allot which led to Civil War; on the triumph of the Royalists he allied Protestant Europe against Austria and Spain, in conjunction with England defeating the Spaniards in the battle of the Dunes, Dunkirk being ceded to Crom- well; his greatest diplomatic triumph was the League of the Rhine, placing the Rhine states under the patronage of France; the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659i and the marriage of Louis XIV to a Spanish Princess closed his career: “Time and I against any two. . . . They sing! They will pay!"

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The PVmnipeg Tribune carried the follow- ing letter the other day from Mr. Ilemming: "It will probably be a iiiattcr of stirprise to readers of The Tribune to lcarn that the cost of growing feed grains in Prince Edward Isl- and is materially higher than the figures at which the same Western grains can be brought down tn the Island from Port Arthur and Fort Wil- liam by boat in peacetime. In addition to the above fact Western grains are government in- spectcd and can, therefore, be guaranteed not to contain more than a small average percentage of noxious weeds per bushel. In Prince Edward Island there is no government inspection. In most cases grains are grown by the farmers and by them fcd to their livestock. Apart, there- fore. from the lower cost of Western grain is a ilcciileil advantage in keeping the farm lands frcc from weeds, particularly wild mustard. It is generally admitted that to increase the market in Eastern Canada for the Western grain is in cverv way desirable. There are. however. 1W0 disadvantages from which Prince Edward Island stiffcrs. iiaincly, first. that the docking facilities in Charlottetown harbor are not capable of ac- commodating the largest grain "Sitll. Wlllflh. of course. would require up-to-date mechanical unloading facilities; and. xcimd. that there i! iio grain elevator in Prince Edward Island. which ivould be required both for storage and distributing purposes. As this is a matter of mutual advantage both to the West and to lhfl East I trust that it will be broadly discussed in hlaiiitnba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in order that the Federal Government may realize its

importance.”

coal in Europe; in 1938 it produced 127.000.1100

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Notes By The Way

A pat on the back will work wen-

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From Kitchener Record. w‘ i-

When Jose Paxton (later- Sir Jose h), In"; and greenhous bull er, came to wndon a century 8x0 and proposed that the first gent international exhibition to

held be housed

tor-y, he s apparent! will go on forever. Tire Crystal alace of 1851 ls renowned in verse and song. After the exhibition was Over it was moved some distance south and east of London. where it stood until destroyed by fire s few years prior to the present war. The 1651 was not- other excelleiieei-i, be- cause it turned a surplus of nearly £186,000. Down the years this sun. has been used for scholar- ships. They are known as 1851 scholarship: and have been won gy studen at Monitor; and other ansdian universities. now, is that ...e Crystal Palace ls to be rebuilt and on a grander scale than cver. It will be differ- ent, however, because glass will not be used. The new palace ls to con- sist of sn amphitheatre, large and small theatres, concert and dance halls, swimming pools, ice rink. ex- hibition hulls and so on. Prizes from £2,000 down are now being offered for the design of the new palace. It rill be erected on the old site at Sydcnham,

It is interesting, if irritating, to observe that, w iio the nervous coughers perform frequently in lec- ture halls or in churches, the are seldom heard in moving pibture theatres. Now a psychologist might explain this as elng due to the fact that people are more i ‘ - ed in talkles than iri lectures or sermons, that their attention has less disposition, therefore, to wan- der, arid that they become so ab- sorbed ln a playhouse plot that they forget to couglL-Bruntford Expositor.

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The news,

In today's paper I came uterus a fashion note. 1t described an outfit "with a matching shirred bib to glamorlze a basic dress. The bib can also be tised as a bustle or pe lum.” This had me stymied! I ha always thought of a bib as somethings to keep infants from messing up their clothes. The lust adjective I would ever think of applying to a bib would be “glam- or." I think I know what n bustle is; but I didn't know women ivcre wearing ‘eni nowadays. And cer- tainly I didn't know that bibs and bustlcs were interchangeable.

um" threw ine for a loss.

to inquire of Mr. Webster.

says that this word comes from the Greek peplos or peplus: " u shawl-like upper garment worn by women in ancient Greece.” In the Latin form, peplum, he says it is “a kind of kerchlef or shawl." All right, so far. But how the dickens does e. eplum become a bustle? By stufing, I suppose. -- H. O'Brien in Chicago Dally News.

' lei-mittent night frosts have held back its arrival, but Victoria's Spring triumph, the flowering puxns and cherries of Cornwall, Burdett and other streets will burst into bloom iii tlic next few days. Then will come the rich crown of blossoms on slender brown trunks, ethereal snowball; tinged with pink, that transform so many streets into avenues of fancy. And when the winds blow, down will shower the soft petals to the young green grass. Then a foliage of shining bronze will grace the troughs which bore them-Victoria Tlnics.

A young woman's nightgown touched the glowing coll of o, small electric heater, she was instantly enveloped in flames, and died of her injuries. A pathetic tragedy‘ which illustrates the danger that can lurk in familiar objects of our comfort and convenience-Ottawa Journal.

George Clemenceau, who was a knowiiing old man, once said “war is too serious a business to be en- trusted to generals." That is why two civilians, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, have been helping Marshal Stalin make de- clslons as to‘ the last days of Ger- many-Vancouver Province.

They were wrong about Mr. Churchill and the Greek troubles, those coeksure and incorrigible leftists but don't nourish the delu- sion that any of them will have the sportsmanship to admit lC.—V8l1— couver Province.

Excbanged prisoners-of-war told

long ago that people in Ger- many feared ii Russian invasion anything else that de- feat could bring to them. For the reason that in no other country have Nazi soldiers committed out- rages on the scale they did in Russia. Crimes ilS black were per- petrated by tli:i.i elsewhere, but not in such numbers-From the Edmonton " ‘ .

During the five years of war, Canada has produced enough steel to build ll. double track railway round the world; enough lumber to build 2 1-2 million homes; enou h armored vehicles to equip e whole German army; enough bullets to fire two into every living person on earth. She has gone into new businesses such as production of synthetic rubber, planes (including the first plywood plane in the world, the Mosquito), radar, pre- cision instruments, warships and super-ex loslves. Her scientists have le the woild in man fields, notably in dehydrated foods, the famous antl-sensickness pills, ba- con-curing without heavy suiting -and hundreds of others, many of them military secrets for the dura- tion. In addition, Canadian farm- ers, who have lost half a million of their ounger people to indus- try and t e services since war be- gan, have upped production by over 40 per cent and in the fifth ear of war raised cro s that tott an all-time high or farm cash in- come of $l,500,000,000. — Drum- heller Mail.

The " ar-GenerlPl return for the September unrter of’ 1M4 gives no i-ii ii that t e rising trend of the birt -rate is et coming to an end. A rate of lilo per thous- and ls the highest a: any third quarter since 1926, and 44,043 more birth; were re lstercd in the first nine months n inst ear than in the same eriod of 94.3. Marri- ages recor ed are only gust over half the number recorde in the same quarter last your It com- pares badly lgllll the 101.428 marri-

es recorde

1942. sharp a decline in the number of new marriages must sooner or later show itself in a

downward trend of the birth-rate. -6sy| the London Economist: :

v- to know the truth, or that there

in the same period le

Equality 0f Sacrifice

(Text of an nlrlrele deliv- ered by Ilon. John Irsekm. leader of the ve Conservative Party. at he 9rd Allllllll Meelln of the )ll0ll In Oltlwl. March . - -

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IV Canadians ere sink and tired nf the Government, hiding behind the excuse of security reasons

whenever it cults its p to do That game has been over-

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I take back nothing of

said in Grey North. And I chal- lenge the Government here- and now-for it ls within its power to do so—to appoint a‘ Royal Gom- mlssion convposed of three - reiiie Court' Justlcee. '

with military service. to enquire. into and report on the whole mat- ter of reinforcements, desertions and discipline since General Mc- Naughton became Minister of De-

Bun-I want to write n line to you now, have been in to do so ere this, but time does awsyofflyingby. Hereisw write. 1 wan to thank "Ellen's Diary", its beautlf , every, line of it; so realistic and homey- very, very nice. It makes me sad though and lonesome for to be down home and really live those. kind of times have done

was born in the "Garden-

of . I h gets too tired to wrf” -then what will I sleep that night. I wish Diary" could be bound form later. Ohl its fine. I am, Sir. eta. A READER m unravels. MASS.

.i__¢__._ _ GOVERNMENT CONTROL

fence. That enquiry must be held lri public, open to the people and the press. The Royal Commission‘ must have powers to enquire into every circumstance of calling up. compulsory allocation, clesertlon. discipline, disturbances. and move-I ment' of reinforcements overseas,‘ since the present Defence MLn-l lster took office. Anything less will leave the people in doubt and our lads overseas uncertain as to

to be maintained. As long as a real effort is made to do this quickly. and the enquiry is kept free from political interference. all the essential in‘ rnmtlon could be obtained in a very short time. Not only the welfare of the men over- seas but the whole future of Can- ada demands a complete public airing of the faots behind the course followed by the present Min- ister of National Defence and the urhole truth and nothing but the truth about the reinforcement situation. .

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Let us not have the answer that this cannot be done for security reasons or that it will give com- fort to the enemy. That is only another Wily of saying it will not give comfort to the Government. Let us see once and for all who is guilty of untruths, diabolical or otherwise. That is all I ask. That is my challenge, made on behalf of our fighting men, the people of this country, and. least of all. myself.

For far too long this Govern- ment has been pennittcd to hide behind security regulations. When facts the public had n right to know were demanded. the Govern- ment kept them shrouded in sev- recy. using the excuse that it was not in the public interest for them

were reasons of security for keen- lniz them in the dark.

There is l1 purpose for security regulations. Protecting the party power, or any other party. is not the purpose of those regula- tions. And any government which will so misuse war regulations as to keep the people. who have every

how the strength of their units is $4

Sin-The day that Government control of the liquor traffic is in- aukuroted on Prince Edward Is- land will be the blaekest day, in the history of the Province. thing called "government contro" is not control or regulation of the liquor traffic; it government sale of alcohol for profit, for revenue purposes. Witness the sale last

ear in e neighbor-in province of

,000,000 worth of l uor with s profit lo the government of over

One has only to live a few ‘years in a province where this vcious system is in operation to see the futility of trying to raise the econo- mic stsndirrd of a people by em- ploying a system that lowers the moral status of every community where it obtains an entry, lmpaitrs health. debauches youth and fos- tergs an utter disregard for law and O 6X‘.