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Secretary: Lieiit. Col. D. A. Mnlllnnon. D-B-g-JL up" mg Mugging Director. .l. B. Burnett. -A Associate Editors: Freak Weiker end Llenl. Inn

Burnett, R.U.N.V.B. (On Active Service)

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FRIDAY. DEC. 3. 1943

Britain And India

\\'litit has llritiiiii done to improve economic conditions in India? This question is answer- ed attthoritatively by Lord Halifax, British Am- llliisiltltll‘ in the US. and former Viceroy in lnditi, uh-i tells of the British record in that country in 2t recent issue 0f the National (ieogrtipliic Fkgtizitie.

More llillil has been irrigated in India than in any other couiitr_v—tcn times as much as in lllfflflll, of \\'ll()5(3 irrigation we have heard so much, tiiid tu>cut_v-two times as much as in the lQtiited States. These irrigation works have cost Sgoooooooo but they have greatly increas- ed [ii-oductitiii. Previously there had been dis- astrous iziiiiiiies from time to time. In one of lllClll, :i third of the population of Bengal per- ished. Thvrti has not been a serious famine iii llltllll siiict- moo, Lot-d Halifax maintains. The |il‘C.~Clll fziiiiitic is bud enough. but due largely to the iitirltl \\Zll', and he is thinking of the far more dczitlly fzitititit-s of former years.

Aqrictilturtil production has been encouraged bv the British, with the restilt that rice produc- tion is second only to that of China. as much wheat is grown as in Canada, more cane stigztr than in any other country, cotton next to the U. 5., and peanuts half the world crop.

Itidustrial development was coming gradually before the war, and there were 10,000 small factories. A great impetus to industrial produc- tion on a very wide range has been given by the war. But the big maiority of the people still live from the soil.

This economic progress would have improved the living conditions of the people much more, but for the accompanying vast increase in pop- ulation-—fr0m 206 millions in 1872 to 388 mil- lions now. In 71 years the population nearly doubled. This was due to the removal of the factors which formerly checked the increase- wars in India, plague and famine. The great density of population makes it extremely difficult to relieve the general poverty.

Britain has done it good deal, but Britain alone cannot solve the problem. Quicker progress will be made in improving economic and living conditions ii-i India when this is a more pros- perous world, when trade flows freely and In- die’: products can be marketed to advantage all over the world. ‘

Canadian Codfish in Cuba

line: the removal of the ceiling price of 27 emu per pound on imported codfish in Cuba, the market for the Canadian product, which for over I year has been barred, has again been reiumed, according to s report from J. E- O'Neill of the office of the Canadian Trade Commission- _¢ at Havana.

“Since trade was resumed,” the report states, “ll Canadian fish shipments have been routed through Santiago de Cuba for transhipment to Havana by rail. Current prices for imperial and large codfish are $16.20 and $15.75 respec- tively per hundred pounds, f.o.b. Lunenburg, N.S. The Canadian product is now retailing freely in Havana at from 33 cents to 35 cents per pound, Ind is usually available at all grocery stores. Although this price places it beyond the reach of the poorer classes, who in normal times are the principal consumers, the demand nevertheless has been greater than the supply, and consequently considerably larger quantities can be absorbed, if they are available. The quality of the fish reaching this market is ex- cellent and it has been most favorably received by both dealers and consumers."

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Oh, these uninformed bureaucrats! The Canadian Meet Board announced lut lum- mer that if a. surplus of beef developed in Cui- ldl, the United Kingdom was ready to buy it, in addition to the 675,000,000 pounds of bacon being supplied this year. Meat Board pur- chases of beef started some weeks ago, but only recently did authorities feel the Canadian supply situation was sufficiently good to war- rant export. Officials can give no informa- tion on the amount of beef shipped so far, but one estimate was that it is less than 1,000,000 pounds. Another factor likely to enlarge beef exports is the probable transfer of some west- ern farmers’ hog production to cattle raising. Although the meat supply picture is good, in- formed sources said it is "most unlikely" that meat rationing cari be abandoned, because of the needs of Canada's allies. Mr. H. H. Hatfield, Progressive Conservative member of Parliament for Carleton-Victoria, suggests that meat ra- tioning and meatless Tuesdays should be aban- doned aiid a campaign started to have Canadians eat more meat. He said stocks of meats were large and butchers were being of fcred more than they could handle.

Government To Blame It is a fair assumption, says the Globe and Mail, that the ivnge increases given the western miners will he offered tn the Nova Scotia miti- ers. who now have an application for wage ad- lllsllllellls lit-fort: llic National \Var Lalioi- linaiil. lii other ivririls. the (iuvr-riimcn.‘ is nnw sct-ltiiiu In the u-estcru settlement as the l-tisis for ii national fllflilillil-fl formula ivliicii it ought to have sought last Mav when it de- clared tlii- "nrititiiial emergency" iii coal produc- tion. llad lllf‘ (iiwvriiiiieitt achieved a formula Can- ada ivoulil have produced more coal over the

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past three or four months, instead of losing pro- duction through strikes, stoppages and slow- downs. Had the Government followed the idvicfi of its own labor and production authorities s formula would have been worked out. It fol- lowed their advice only to the point of holding an exploratory conference of operators labor spokesmen in the capital at midsummer. Several suggestions for ‘improving miners’ earnings and boosting production were advanced then, including time-and-a-half for the sixth day of ivork in any week, regional or district bonuses as used in Britain, unification of basic wage rates, and adjustment of income-tax collections. At that time the Minister of Munitions and SuP- ply, to whom the Coal Controller and the Em- ergency Coal Production Board are responsible, did not believe that wages were a factor in the production problem, which he held to be entirely a matter of inadequate manpower. For what- ever reason the proposals did not satisfy the views of the productionauthorities, and the search for a national formula was abandoned.

w- EDITORIAL NOTES —

Had not Premier J. Walter Jones taken up our case against Newfoundland, and fought for our farmers and traders vigorously, we would have been cut out of our cattle trade with that Dominion. Our Federal representatives were asleep if not actually gulf‘, a: usual.

Dependents of servicemen share in increased eost-of-living bonuses now paid employees of industry and trade. It is announced that the amounts would be increased to $4.12 a mourn for wives with children and $2.20 a month for wives without children.

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Acting to correct what President Roosevelt has described as "an historic mistake,” the U.S. Senate has passed and sent to the White House a bill repealing the 61-year-old Chinese Ex- clusion Act. The measure substitutes for a ban on Chinese immigration the application of a quota under which 105 members of the race would be admitted annually and Chinese resi- dents would be eligible for naturalization as United States citizens.

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Probably Prof. W. D. MacFarlane, depart- ment of chemistry, Macdonald College. had Summerside in mind when he told the House of Commons Reconstruction Committee, Or- tawa, that “alcohol production might be attained in rural plants, although sometimes there might be a question for the excise department as to the consumption of some of the product”

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New Brunswick meat dealers complain farm- ers are unable to market cattle and hogs and also unable to obtain feed for them. As a re- sult, some farmers are reported to be browning small pigs, usually in great demand. Butchers declare they are being offered quantities far larger than they can handle and are booked weeks ahead of requirements. One dealer said that in trying to market cattle in Maine he found the same situation of glufitecl markets.

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Robert Bloomfield, English poet, born this date I766; published several poems dealing with rural life, his best known being “The Farmer's Boy":

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That duty’s basis is humanity."

"If fields are prisons, where is Liberty?" “Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, nature was his book."

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Sir Aretas William Young, Lieutenant Gov- ernor of Prince Edward Island from 183i to 1835, died this date 1835; entered the army as

the Peninsula through the Napoleonic and Re- volutionary wars; from i820 to 1823 adminis- tered thc government of Trinidad. in 1826 re-

later being appointed lieutenant governor here: his son, Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, became governor of South Australia, and later of Tas- mania.

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Mr. E. P. Taylor, Canadian member of the U.S.A.-Canadian Combined Production and Re- sources has resigned to return to his own busi- ness. He says the armies are now fully eqiiip- ped, the submarines under control, and air plant production has e high priority. Production is now being staggered downward, till it finishes off with the defeat of Japan. After that the Board will deal with distribution of civilian production in Britain, U.S.A. and Canada. He will return to his civilian tasks as president of Canadian Breweries, Orange Crush, Canadian Food Pro- ducts, Sunsoy Products, and Anglo-Canadian Publishers; vice-president-of the Brewing Cor-

Excelsior Life Insurance company, Massey- Herril Compeny lfld the National Trust Com- PM)’ t n- : n

What is the most popular sport hi Scotland today? asks Augustus Muir. The modern game of lawn-tennis is probably a good deal more pop- ular than ever it was before-and so is the ex- ploration of the countryside on foot, which is colloquially called “hiking," and there are many convenient hostels at which enthusiastic walkers may obtain e night's shelter. But surveying the whole field of games and pastimes, I think there is iio doubt that football must be called the most popular Scottish game if we take into account the number of people who either play or watch it being played. The Rugby game has many loyal adherents; and an international Rugby match at the Murrayfield ground in Edinburgh brings its tens of thousands of en- thusiastic spectators. But the Association game, in which the ball must not be touched by hand, has numerical priority both in players and fol- lowers. This gattie, iu its original form, is proli- nlily‘ as nld as golf; and in the Middle Ages it sliarcrl with golf the distinction of being pro- hihitetl by law, iii the hope of encouraging arch- ery. It den-lands skill and fleetness of foot; and wlieu a l('lilli like the llvtirl of Midloihian '5 PlflYmt-l Iigliitist ziu equally famous rival. the Crowd‘ ill-ll Kfllllvl‘ ti» chi-er mi their favorites

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The Loose Coupon Racket (St '_'

. ‘fbomu Times-Jenni There is no doubt the stole-ii n: coupon racket is 5e ous.

This k k a black- esi. It is our airmen. It. mustbes win-re- duced to at least ooeeib e in _ um. Lt the 1n

procedure is - adequate. the officials in the 011 controller's office must. think “P

new ways. Although there may be ways 0! barium-tn; book itself. the first. re- aigsite. we suggest, is to provide for imposition of shin-I'D ‘Densities

on Ru station attendant: who ac- oebt loose coupons. The refilla- tAon printed in the ration book cis- tslrict-iy says that each coupon enflll be valid only when r nt- tached to the book and when de- tached by the persona who sell-B line. ln other words u; at.-

he qulxielci number of coupons before serving the customer. This Ls tan- tamount. to an absolute ban on loose coupons, and 1f strictly en- forced would almost but. an end to the whole scandal.

From past reports on awn-M thefts there abbeers to be far mo mucii laxity in lean-rd to loose cou- pons in dealers’ offices. they lie around too long and accumulate. It SlWillQ be the duty of someone to bum the used coupons each day or return them catch day to the oil controller's office.

Three Ounces A Week

(Winnipeg Free Press)

Coaster-nation and anger will be felt. by Canadians generally as they realize that the new policy of the government means that the British bacon ration is to be cut from four to three ounces a week while at the same time all domestic re- strlctlons on the consumption of bacon have been removed.

The background of the situation is this: Canada is this year supply- ing 6'75 million pounds of first.- class bacon to Great Britain. For reasons which have never been completely explained the com- mitments made for 1944-45 were reduced. Canada, in those two years. l5 to supply Britain with 900 million pounds at; the rate of 450 million pounds per year. Various eXEIl-hlllbfll have been given for iah . In some quarters it is maln- t-alned that; our coarse grain supply —t.he food for hogs-will riot per- mit a. larger commitment; it is said larger shipments of beef will be sent to Britain instead, thou h of this no details have been pu lish- ed; ln others. it is stated that the relationship of hog prices to coarse grain prices is such that no larger supply of bacon can be raised here; elsewhere it. is said that, the pay- ment of coarse grain subsidies to some piéoducers andxnol: to bothers , abet/tom o t e c ange; Whig, blllll-WIS are said to be murmur-lug t so, if the war in Europe end: between the close of 1948 and the close of 1945, Canada will be foruniite to be the se ~- of n long-term contract w ich will keep the British market safe for Canadian producers in the face of immediate competition from Den- mark. Holland, Poland, and so on.

The reasons for the smaller total contract ‘hay. or may not be, arriply Justified. In the absence of proper explanation. everyone will make up own mind on that. But nobody can find any reasonable explana- tion for the fact, that at the same time that the new contract was made. domestic restrictions on the of bacon wer: ell taken off.

For several years now there has been drastic rationing sf the home market. The cookers were ordered to supply is certain fixed percent.- age of their total slaughtering to the p: for shipment to Brita . e Oarmdian people got only what was lef t and steps were taken to sec diet the British lot the best. bacon and that. we got bacon sometimes of poorer quality. This suited the Ciuiadl

pie very well. We have other oods in plenty. We cm substitute something else for bacon and get non: very well. We did not mind if. now and elllfl. our bacon was not quite s quality product. m: we knew-all of its-that the whole British ration was being carefully and scientifically devised so as to procure the maximum balance of diet for e peo le living vlrtuiiily— find u they stll ire-in a state of

‘s table could be n little better furnished. Hence the consul-nation, hence the er. at leaning that we no not. on cutting (own our snip- ments o bacon tn .-lrltnin but that we ourselves are to be allowed to eat all the bacon we can buy under our own very gen rous rationing system. A Canadian housewife to- dny can if the wants it be sure of buying hei- whole meal ration in U?! choicest b

put. in her order. Mean- while the British people ere to be cut. from four ounces of beoon e week to three. n cut of as per cent. lat. us emphasize that: it. is not three ounces of bacon a day. It is

Mathematicians can work uils out, for themselves for the figures should be available. There are four times as many - British u there are Oenedlenr. f-iow much must the British do without so that we can eat all the n we want? i-fow much would it nieim if Ounedn stowed eating pawn 51w. gather in order that, our whole supply could be shipped oversees? How much would it mean to Britain if we here rhei-ed the some bacon Illlon as the British? The viewer to these end other questions would all interest the Canadian people who. we may be sure. do not share the views of their vernment on

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