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Morning Dally (Founded ll 1'81) mnusntY-itsin. Col. w. Chester s. McLun Vice-President: J. R. Burnett. FJ-l- Secretary: Lient. Col. D. A. Moclilnnon, 0.8.0. Editor and Max:881"! Dlwflw" J- n" Bmuﬂb FJJ’ Associate Editors: Frank Walker and Llout. Ian A. Burnett, R.C.N.V.R. (On Active Survive)

“The SlrongeFMemory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.” TUESDAY, JUNE 151915

Liberals Re-elecled

The re-election of the Klﬂll G°vemmellt “n the basis of incomplete civilian vote returns was indiQﬂu-(j 13,-; night, with the expectation thﬂlthe Government will have an overallmajority 1n the new llouse of Commons. It is _to be liollfd that this is the case, as an indecisiye margin could 11101111 anothei" general election in the near future with all its zittetitlant expense and dis- atlvantzigcs to the country. _

The chief appeal made by the Llbefﬂl Partv was not on its record, but on the ground thanwith its standing ot155 members in IlW his; Hun-t- of Coniiiitnis 1t “'11s the only party that could hope to form a majority goifrlllllelll after the election. Prime AllYlISlCl‘ King stres- sed this at every opportunity, and there is no doubt that it was lll< strongest card. The Ont- ario provincial election gave Liberal expecta- tions a had inlt, but they sticeeedcd in retain- ing their hold in the llztritiiries and in Quebec.

Provinciallv the contest was keen. With ll“ Conservative candidates cutting down the_L1b- eral niiiiiii-itics in every case. Indeed. until the votes of our SCYYiCCdllCil aiirl women are counted. the actual result in Prince Edward Island, as well as in other closely contested constituencies, will remain (louhtful.

Noteivortliy in eastern Canada especially was the poor shouuig made by the C C. ‘F. can- didates. Many of them lost their deposits, and the next Parliament is likely to see them de- pleted in numbers, and forming but an incon- spicuotis part of the Opposition.

London Since VE-Day

A year ago the skies over London were zpotted wit-h barrage balloons, bobbing and weaving in the wind, or drooping in still air. They ivere invariably the first thing that struck the eye of newly arrived Canadians for they were so numerous that one homesick soldier gazed at them for a while and suggested that if some one cut the cables the island might sink.

Now, one year later, there isn't a. speck in the sky, for the balloons vanished long ago, short- ly' after the invading forces reached the Con- tiiient. They disappeared with the arrival of the flying bombs over London, being moved to the coast in an effort to bring down the V-i weapons before they reached inland.

Instead of serving as a protection from low- flying aircraft, the balloons over London be- came a menace, on the theory that if the fly- ing bombs were allowed to run their course unimpelled they might land hzrmlessly in some outlying field, whereas if they were entangled in the barrage balloons over London they were certain tojexplode in the City, at which the Ger- mans were aiming.

The melancholy wail of the sirens also van- ished from the night long ago, for when the enemy gave up using flying bombs and re- placed them with V-f rockets there was nu time to warn the people to seek shelter.

But if there are 11o longer any bombs 0:1 London, there is a lot more bomb damage than there was when the troops departed a year ago. The first Americans to reach England in the Spring of 1942 almost had to go on sight- seeing tours to see what had happened during the blitz, and even a. year ago they found only a house or two missing from a row here and there, a yawning cellar between two buildings, a vacant corner on a busy street. But, although the V weapons failed to wreck or ruin Lon- don, it is now hardly possible to walk four blocks in anv direction without seeing some evidence of the German attack on innocent by- standcrs.

A Mischievous System

A report of ivhat is known as the “Gallup Poll" purporting to give the reoult of a "poll" of public opinion with respect to yesterday's Domitiiriii election, appeared several days ago.

.\s an aid to (leteriniiiing the possible 0r probable result of the election this poll, of course, was wholly useless, this for the reason that it had not "polled" the vote of the armed serv- ices, a vote which totals between 350,000 and 400.000 ballots, or an average of about 1,500 for each constituency.

Aloreovcr, it was not a poll at all in the sense of ballots being sent t-i anv substantial number of electors, but merely a loose test of "public opinion" through the process of a few un- known persons interviewing a comparatively few other lllllUlOWll persons here, there and everywhere. The thing was unscientific and utterly undepentlable.

But the "(lallup Poll", and all similar "polls" are more than iiiidepcitdable. As the Oilnlvll lanrrial points out. they can be turned into dziiigcrntis propaganda. For example, who were the scrutiueers in this Gallup "poll"? The taking of ballots in a democracy is a sacred undertaking; surrounded with safeguards. Tn this “Gallup Poll" business there were no safe- guards. No one checked the returns. No one audited them. The results were computed and piit out by people who for the most part were unknown and who were responsive to nobody.

The danger of this is obvious. It is the

these “polls” to put over a party or a policy or a measure in which they are interested, regard- less of its merits. Many people, notoriously, like to vote on the winning side. If, there- fore, a group of irresponsible persons are in a position, on the eve of an election, to put out a “poll” purporting to show that_a certain party or policy is likely to prevail——this regardless of the faets—then the danger is too obvious to be stressed. We siiitply leave lying around a dan- gerous weapon which any sinister group may use at will to prosper their own interests.

The Journal suggests that the Elections Act of this country should be amended to prohibit all such “polls." They should be prohibited be- cause: (i) experience has shown that they are unreliable and (2) because they could be con- structed into positive peril to proper democratic processes.

How tiureliable these "polls" are was shown by the Grey North byelection. If Grey North had voted aocording to the Gallup Poll, the Liberals would have received approximately 6,909 votes, the Progressive Conservatives 5,500. the C. C. F. 3,900. What actually happened was that the Liberals received (11199 votes, the C. C. F. 3,136, and the Conservatives 7,338. The Gallup Poll was 300 votes wrong in the case of the Liberals, 75o wrong iii the case of the C. C. F., And 1,400 votes wrong in the case of the Progressive Conservatives.

However, the fundamental objection to these Gallup “polls" is the wrong use that can be made of them. Before a. Congressional in-

quiry Dr. George Gallup adtiiitted llll(l(‘l' oath b

that in the course of the last United States Presidential election campaign he had thought it advisable to change the results of "polls" from time to time to make a better showing for Dewey. It is easy to see what could happen with “polls" taken -hy people less honest than Dr. Gallup—of the use sitiister propagamlists could make of them to help put over some high- pressure proposition on behalf of some. special interest. It is a risk no democracy should take.

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The new moon did its part for Sunday anyway. a m w m ~ The next big event Wlll be, perhaps, japaifs collapse. I i l I

The British elections will be more in the

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The Danish agricultural and dairy produce industry suffered little harm during the war and while under German ocupation, Prof. Mogens Fog, minister for special affairs in the new Danish government and former resistance leader, said in London the other day. “There are large stocks of bacon and‘ dairy produce which wilbspoil unless exported," he said. “The Danish people want to help Europe by supply- ing food and are eager to accept further re- strictions. Given coal and other fuels Deiunarlc will be able to export again."

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Rt. Hon. Robert Anthony Eden, P.C., \I.P., M.C., LL.D., British statesman, born this date I897; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; elected M.P. for Warwick and Leani- ington as a Conservative in 1923, and re-clect- ed up till now; commenced his career as private secretary to Rt. Hon. Austin Chamberlain, since which he has passed through the routine of under-secretaryships till he became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in I935; he re- signed over a difference with his colleagues on foreign policy; went to Moscow, Warsaw and Prague on a special mission; appointed Sec- retary for the Domiriions in April 1939; for War in Aug. I940; for Foreign Affairs in Dec. 1940; chosen leader of the House of Commons in I942; looked upon as the successor to the Premiership in the event of Mr. Churchill's res- ignation. _

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For the first time in the history of the Can- adian Dental Corps. WOlllCfl 0t the three serv- ices are performing the duties of chair‘ as- sistants to dental officers at Navy, Army and Air Force establishments, Defence Headquart- ers announces. When the Canadian Dental Corps was first organized, soldiers were cm- ployed as dental assistants and trained as rein- forcements for the C.D.C. overseas service. When thc-Clllldian \Vometi's Army Corps was formed, a number of C.\V.A.C. personnel were assigned duties as dental assistants, but the ina- jority continued to be male personnel in order tn keep sufficient overseas reinforcements avail- able. Today, of the 41o C.D'.C. women dental assistants, 2X2 are members of the C. \V. A. C., 75 are Wrens and 8o are \V.D.’s.

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Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton, now Defence Minister, told Col. George Drew in I943. will!" the Ontario premier was visiting England, that his greatest mistake had been in I941 when he did not break the King government, as he could have done. During a summary at Calgary of the famous Hong Kong enquiry, ivhich he had precipitated, Premier Drew recalled that Gen. McNaughton had been brought back to Canada to testify and had said that troops could he trained on shipboard. At that point someone in his audience made a jeering remark about Me- Naughton. The premier stopped, leaned for- ward arid said: "Andy McNaughton is the most pitiful figure in Canada today. That man who on announcing that he was joining the King Government expressed his great pride-at serving under such a leader, and in my pres- ence in England in I943, and he user] these words and I quote them, ‘my mistake was that when I was home in 194i I didn't break the

danger of possibly unscrupulous men using King Government as I could have done."

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‘Notes By The Way

_A Mlnlnl l mother l: reported to have wrlifihezi the Army. “My son," she said, "has taken out

10,000 war risk lnsumnce. so keep lilm tn a safe place u lt is as much r interest. now u l; la mlne."- 000mb, Miss, Enterprise.

LL-Col. Mari‘ Anal Brown, top. ranklxig WAC the Southwest Pa. clflc, says lf there ls n, war so years hence women wlll be on an ev n footing with men. Why 50 years from now? Evidently Col. Brown has not studied the equality of footing among the girls of this town recently.—New York World Telegram. ~

Commentators loom to like the word, Gotterdammerung, ln rela- tlon to Gennanyb present predica- ment, imd they can have L~ the word, we mean, says the Buffalo Courier-Express. We don't. care much for Gotterdnmmerung for three good reasons- to wit: 1 -'I‘o us non-scholars ln he German lan- guage, Gotterdammerung sounds |sort of profane. 2—Not by the wildest. stretch of the imagination could one find the faintest re- semblance between the present. rul- ers of Germany and the Wagnerinn pagan gods. 3—-It isn't twilight for Germany. It's dark.

A motion picture metres; ls do- scrlbed as “the most beautiful glrl in the world." How does Holly- wood know? There are probably many more beautiful females whom nothing would induce to become fllm actresses even if the o por- tunlty were given them. Al the

eautlful women in the world aren't in the "movies," nor have they any aspirations whatever ln that direction. Laying claim to possession of "the most beautiful glrl in the world” ls just more typi- cal Hollywood nonseuse. — Brock- vllle Recorder and Times.

When the army took over g large hotel in Boston, the openi- tors of the stores, barbershop and other establishments were ln great: glee. They catered to the troops and told their former regular customers they could not be bot-h- cred caring for them. So, the re- gulars went to other stores and shops and spent their trade there. But, sitddenly the army moved right» out. The operators of the stores and shops found their ser- vice customers had left them over. night. They pleaded wlth their old customers to come back, but. they were doing all right and Jld not. forget they got the cold shoul- den-Wlndsor Star.

The ﬁasco Machinery Company of Newark, N.J., ls painting used machinery, which it recoiidltlons for war production, ln bright. colors.

olor helps reduce fatigue and eye straln, it has been discovered, according to Nation's Business. Absenteeism drops. Safety lessons stick when color ls there as a re- minder. Irudrawlng up the color scheme. critical parts of the mn- ehlne are separated from the non- crltteal. Orange ls used for the danger spots, cream for moving parts and shades of green for the rest. At the start, some indus- trialists o sed the innovation, but. now t e glamorlzedmaehines have pnssed the experimental stage wit-h (dare we say ) flying colors,

Bees are 1.1m» —callle. and the swarm which ls reported to have taken possession of the little eliurrh at; Rand, 1n Llncolnshlre, recently, compelling the rector to hold the service ln the chancel, showed all the obstlnacy of their clan, They descended ln a cloud from their nest tn the roof, and defied all ef- Jorts to dislodge them from the pews, floor and windows. I once saw an auction sale brought to an abrupt conclusion by a swarm of bees. Among the lots offered for sale was a beehive, complete with inmates, and the trouble began when some careless spectator knocked it over. The bees rose lrito the slr in an angry black swarm, and made, literally‘ a bee- llne for the auctloneerpiztting him‘ to lgnomlnlous flight. - Leeds Yorkshire Post.

Experiments whlch voluntary agencies in Britain are carrying out for housing of elderly people with slender means will very sub. stantlally augmented lf the Lon- don Counly Counell can carry lh-Pollkh its post/war scheme for providing one-room apartments for the old folk, says the Vancouver Province. The scheme wlll be de- Dendent; on sympathetic eo-op- eratlori of the Mlnlstry of Health. State subsidies will be necessary to keel) rent within the means of these elderly folk. There will be nothing institutional” about the L.C.O. scheme. One-room homes will be included ln hduslng estates ln London and cottage estates out- side, and the tenants, single people as ivell as married couples, will be made to feel that. they belong to a community. and not that they

ve been segregated because they are old. The apartment»! wlll be sn arranged that those who are able. bodied can run them for them- selves. Other tenants, frail but not lryr need of “institutional treat- ment. wlll be lni care of a rest- dentlal supervisor. Provision will also be made for those who do need lnstlt/utlonal treatment.

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TIME. LIKE A emu,- Now time has no more itieanlm. Levine. ywns. You stand here gpi the sea wall, 5 . Wind moulds your scanty germane to your roast, Outllnes slim hips your strong and; rest. upon And all your thoughts and all your new dreams flow Seaward- unchecked. having ao- where else to x0. Empty, time hangs above you llh Siapeiltdedhwltalfbut clpﬂhr or rlng- ng an . i You watch the mm, forgetting

how the sand I; pa/tterned with shining weed and colo shell.

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White Whale Round- Up

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dln northwards from 1t. :1 P1318, ‘narrow ﬂord, with mow capped mountains rising on cub side, which ls one of the show places of the North. And on the shore of this flord l: the settle- ment of Ptmsmrtuns. the metro- polis of the Eastern Anette. There every summer the Eskimos are ‘gathered together by the Man- ager of the Hudson: Bay Corn- puny post for the annual white whale drive.

White whales. or b01004. l" familiar to many dwellers along the Atlantic coat and the lower St. Lawrence. When full grown they are milk whlte and avenge about twelve feet tn length. Every year ln July they migrate north- wards alone the coast of Baffin Island, 11nd it ls at this time that. they enter Ktngua llord, at: the far end of Cumberland Bound. Two hundred yards from the end of this flord there ls a shallow bar, and lt ls the aim of the whale hunters to drive the great mam- mals over this bar when the tlde ls high, and keep them there until lt. falls, and traps them. In the work of herding and dispatching the whales "Dominion" ammuni- tlon plays one of its strongest roles.

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On the appointed day, about. sixty Eskimos amemble with their whale boats along the shore of Klngua flord, and watt for the rising tide to cover the bar with a good depth of water. All over the deep blue waters between the bar and the flord's mouth, the white backs of thousands of whales flash ln the sunshine and disappear as they gambol llke porpoises at. play.

Suddenly at aslwul: from the arigauka — the post manager — the waiting Eskimo Jump into their boa-ts and head for the open. sea. At. the flord's mouth the boats stretch out iii a long line from shore to shore. and at. a glv- en signal. they start to iuove sglowly forward, towards the rockv

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Al; once there arises the most deafening uproar, as all the nat- ives who are not busy rowing or steering, begin to shout and yell. and pound on empty gasoline tins, svhlle the tall cliffs hurl back the echoes. In that; lonely. silent land. such bedlam ls frlghtenlng, and the whales. utterly unaccustomed to any sound but the grinding of lee and the slow thunder of waves. flee from it ln terror,

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The waters boll as they turn in flight. Anxlously the hunters watch, wondering if’ some wise old whale. sensing the shallownes of the water over the bar, Will sud- dcnly turn and lend the herd in a aeep dlve under the boats and so out to freedom.

Hundreds do escape this wav; ut some of’ the more timid lead- ers, driven brick by the dln. and by the sound of bullets cutting the water Just ahead of them. turn again, and seek safely across the bar. In relentless pursuit, the llne of whale boats surges after them 11nd halts above the bar. The tide ls falling. and the whales‘ chances of escape are growing slimmer

shout of triumph from a group nt Eskimos, whose boat has ground- ed. No whcle can now escape through water so shallow, and all of those swimming round within the quiet lagoon are trapped.

The post manager calls a halt for tea, and for 1m hilarious hour the natives sit about, chattering izaily of their recent success. Then, as the waters at the flord’s end‘ drain lower and lower, the glist- ening white bodies appear, thresh- lng helplessly about. At a signal. every man grabs a. gun or a knife, and the work of killing and skinning the whales begins. Each animal ls dispatch- ed with a bullet through the head, and then slit from head to tall along both back and belly. In two halves the skin, muktuk. and blub- ber is peeled off and loaded Into the boats. The muktuk ls a Jelly- lke layer between the skin and the blubber, and ls considered u delicacy by the Eskimos who swal- low bltsof it raw as they skin the whales.

Finally the last boat ls loaded. and. towed by motor boats, the

rig line of whale boats heads out for the sound and Pangnlrtunz post. There the women wlll go to work on the hides, separating the fat, muktuk, and skin, and rendering the fat into oll. The oll and the skin are shipped out on the annual Hudson's Bay Com- pany suuplv ship Nascople. the skin to be made lnto leather, the oll for the manufacture of fine soaps.

Japanese Suicides

(Toronto Star)

We should not lake loo lightly the announced intention of 2pm: to put pilots aboard her up! vo- carrying balloons and send them to this continent. It. ls a fantas- tlc idea, but 1t can be dangerous. The Jam have already demons- trated that the balloons. unman- ned, can reach our shores, even l! their sole triumph to date has been the kllltng bf n. woman and five children. Their marksman- ship will improve with pilots aboard.

The balloons. of course. can be steered only to a. limited extent. but once over land. the MVIIHMY can pick the spots ‘for the drop- Dlnll of the charges. That means that strategic targets are in dut- ger. We may take what. satisfac- tion we wlll from the fact. the men are courting nugget télylh

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