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lfornfn‘ Dally (Founded tn I587) Authorised ll Second Clue Mall. Post Ollloo Department. Ottawa .

President: w. I“ u: s. mum. Il-P- Vtovrreutdent: J. B. Bell FJJ- Secretary: heat Col. D. A Mualhnnon. 0.8.0. [gum m4 shinning Director: I R Burnett. l‘..l.l. Alloolatu Edltom: Frank Weller and

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The Gun-dint may be Jstalned et:_ Bub looacoo Shop. Mona-Jon, N. I. The News Shop, Monoton. N. B. George McLean. Pit-ton N S. ' Walker's Wbita Spot. ll Salter St. Halifax, NJ. Ietropolltan News Agency. Ill! Peer St. Montreal. United Cigar Stores. Chateau Lanrier, Ottnwa Ont. B. Altken, l-ord Elglo’: Hotel Ottawa, Ont. k J. Fine, 354 Bay St., Toronto Ont. Wolfe's News Stand. Sndbnry. Ont. Old South News. Cor. Milk and Washington Sta.

Boston Iotallnfs News Agency, Times Building New York.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Tluur the Weakest Ink.”

THURSDAY, MARCH 28. 194B

Favor Occupation Force

Lcttcrs from Canadian soldiers in the Euroflwn ctlition of '17:.» Jlaple Leaf, the Can- adian army newspaper published overseas, in- dicatc that a large number 0f men in the Can- adian occupation» force oppose the withdrawal of that force from Germany.

Solid agreement is being expressed among the soldiers themselves with the views expres- sed recently in the press for retention of a Canadian occupation force in Germany.

. One- soldier, writing over the pen name “Regrets,” emphasizes that:

“The Canadian public would be very sur- prised to know the number of men who wish to remain here for one or two more years. I believe Canada could keep quite a willing force ovcr here by keeping a ivilling man with points up to 20o rather than compel men with less than 5o points to remain. Personal letter: and Can- adian papers talk about unemployment and housing difficulties among men already re- turned. I think a willing force left over here until September, I947, as was originally intend- ed would help this situation."

No one should know better than the men in the occupation force themselves the nccd for Canada to maintain this force in Germany. They are aware that Canada is now committed to as- sist the attempt by the UNO to erect a col- lcctivg security system in the world. They feel that withdrawal of the Canadian occupation force from Germany at this juncture would only damage Canada's prestige in world councils and would hinder the growth of the UNO.

Farm _Labor Shortage

The Labor Department at Ottawa au- nounces that Canada's immediate post-war un- employment. peak has been “almost reached" and that from now on improvements are in sight. There are now 263,000 unemployed Canadian men and women, and there are 76,000 jobs unfilled. During February the number of unplacod applicants rose by 30,000, compared with a 47,000 rise in January.

Man)’ Canadians will ask at once-where "e a“ 31956 263.000 unemployed? Why are they 110i It Wflfk? Across Canada farmers are cruelly short of labor, and this, despite m. omi- of relatively high wages. Domestic help is virtually off the list; there is a shortage of nurses; a qualified cook is as rare as the ex- tinct dodo. War factories have closed down or llmllly restricted their output but the women who worked in those factories have not made their appearance on. the labor market.

The farmer's problem, according to the London Frve Press, is one of being unable t0 compete in the wage market with the city. The domestic help problem appears to be one of working and living conditions as much as ivagcs. In view of the desperate need for food it would seem reasonable that the Federal Gov- rrnmcnt should be willing to assure. the farm- er adequate help cvcn if it called for some sort oi stibsidy while this food shortage continues. The domestic help situation should right itself in time. Possibly when all service gratuities have been expcndcrl civilian employment may take on a HCW appeal. lu the meantime the labor Slltlflllfill is a barrier to our whole rcconversion campaign. < .

Urgent Trade Requirements

. In a resent speech Hon. J. A. MaaKi, Minister of Trade and Commerce, urged that Lanada follow four main principles with re- gard todeveloping her foreign trade. These iverc: First, to take a full sham in supplying stricken peoples, then to retain her place in the B\""5h._m3l'k°f. then to find ‘new markets, then for private enterprise in Canada to give in- creasing emphasis to the importance of export nude

The ‘immediate and urgent need is to sup- .lply,_ with food, seed, fertilizers, farm machinery, vehiclesand other equipment the war-devastated motions of Europe and Asia. This rnust be done

‘ [in ordeiythpt these nations may,“ soon as pos- illbk, ‘begin to drn their own living. This is a

itasliwhiab. Candle already undertaken, and‘ she-will continue to perform for some

“SWAT” i l that r ..I.t"=>-v.°*!~* M» ‘ M M outlast: has already. Ron: gunman": with‘ countries strain Cu- Ms- wiwxswcs w-

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scd goods. The important thing in to retain Britain as a large customer beyond this immedi- ate post-ivar period, and, the .$i,25o,00o.o0o credit with the Canadian Government has agreed to loan to Britain is one means by which the Dominion hopes to do this.

The fourth principle which-Mr. MacKin- non enunciated, that of having private enter- prise in this country give increasing em- phasis to the importance of our export trade, is not yet fully established. He pointed out, how- ever, that the Government cannot do it all.

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The force of good example i5 shown by the present activities of all ounreprcscntatives at Ottawa. The days of the silent scat-warmer, salary grabber are Jias: and done with.

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Mr. Morley Bell showed his appreciation of being returned to the House by acclamation by voting with the Opposition in the first div- ision in which the interests of Summerside

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John Kcble-poet, priest and founder of the Oxford Movement——died this date 1866: “Next to a sound rule of faith, there is noth- ing of so much consequence as a sober stand- ard of feeling in matters of practical religion." It! I! 1K

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It does not do to predict the weather, though the reports we obtain from the Hali- fax bureau have proved ivonderfully accurate; indications are, however, that March will go out as she came in, lamb-like.

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For a week, rehabilitation officials had ‘been looking for a prospective butler. It was a good job; $19 a week, good tips, keep. In the week, employment officers interviewed the 30o to 40o discharged servicemen daily passing through their hands in search of a well-manner- ed man of good appearance, capable of being groomed into the perfect Jeeves. They found plenty, offered them the job. But the ex- soldiers smiled, declined, asked for something better. At week's end, the job was filled. An ex-orderly in an officers’ nlcss accepted it.

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“Schoolboys and girls of Britain love to hear about Canada, and want to sec it for themselves, writes Mr. Norman Mackintosh of the C. P. R. Public Relations Dept. The boys and girls who were Canada's guests during the blitzes on Britain have gone back to Britain and are spreading glowing accounts of the Canada that was to them such a glorious coun- try, and the Canadians who were for them such warm-hearted welcoming friends. More than five out of six of these boys and girls would gladly go’ back to Canada, he says. ‘Senior pup- ils, and students in Britain's technical colleges, Mr. Mackintosh found, were eager to learn about Canada's scientific achievements, radium, hydro-doctric developments and industries. All school children in Britain love to hear about Canadian foods. As an Imperial Institute lec- turer, Mr. Mackintosh gave “Picture Talks on Canada" to a great! mfny‘ schools.

Another innovation and breach of parlia- mentary procedure in the Legislature. When the House went into committee on the Act to Amend the Public School Act, instead of the Minister concerned explaining the measurc, we are told “Mr. Lloyd Shaw, director of Edu- cation, explained to the House the purpose of the Amendment," and made a good job of it. But this is just another shifting of responsi- bility from duly elected representatives to bureaucrats. If this be tolerated, soon there will be little for Ministers to do but draw their salaries and travelling expenses, while paid of- ficials, unanswerable to the electorate, do the work, speak in the Legislature, assuming gen- eral responsibility. It is time for a return to duly constituted rcprescntative government.

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Designed to diversify school courses to meet individual pupil needs, a new grade IX high school curriculum has been completed, and will be introduced into Saskatclimvan- schools this September. Completion 0f the curriculum marks three years of study by the Education Department and the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Fcdcratlon. The grade 1X schedule is the first part of the new high school curriculum. It is planned to introduce the Grade X curriculum in 1947, Grade XI in 1948 and Grade Xll in x949. The curricplum provides that health and physical education. English, social studies. mathematics, general science and guidance will be compulsory for all (iradg 1X students, cx- cept those in the general course. The student will choose the elective subjects. It 'is drawn up for students taking matriculation, normal school entrance, home economics, commercial courses, industrial arts and the general course. The old curriculum providcd only for matriculation, general and normal school

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The growing enthusiasm for the practical work of the Progressive Conservatives is evi- denced m theprogrammc for the national meet- ing at Ottawa, tomorrow and Saturday. .A resolution urging _the‘ Federal government to fix a date for the holding of general elections every five years will be submitted. Delegates also will suggest the setting up of "a special Commons’ eonunittee to study compulsory ‘vot- ing and linvitstion of campaign esmenditures. Adoption of a system of alternative or trans- ferable voting will be urged. A request that re- tirtribution of tatlon’ in the Commons, plannedtobeundertakcnattheoitctntaes- m, beputpooed until be forward.’ This

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\ New York ohlokpll the stock market 1a 30in , "gysplrit of sheer desperation. t 1s o

wonderful w of bslnfpcared to death. —Hs lton Bpddlltor.

Russian scientists boll out hope of a long-life serum irhleh mu)’ extend our span of to 125 or ISO-long enouzh to find _an gpartment, perhaps. —Kan|sr City

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We are not so sure that the new style of "blunt uiplomecy" ls all that is has been cracked up to be. This business of culling the other fellow a "liar" appears to be con- taglous and, as for as-we can see. hasn't battered relations between the Bu; Three or anyone else. Mr. Bevin started it, and Mr Vlshln- sky proved himself an apt If unor- iglnal pupil. And now Mr. Btulln has uttered the “short. and ugly word." Would unvone claim that Britain and Russia are closer; to- gether than they were six months ago? Calling the other fellow a liar has never helped in reaching agreements, and never will. -Ed- monton Journal.

A call to revolt anlnat the re- turn of the "white iron-linen front," us one writer describes it, ls being sounded in several Cen- adlsn newspapers. It will not get far, The Edmonton Journal thinks. The ladies, bless 'em, are all for fashion, and if a London night- spot or o Hollywood director de- crees dress suits for tllg men, the 11 be worn at the next cosy Iltte dinner-bridge in the most distant little city. Men rqlly have broken away from discomfort in everyday wear, end they ma band together to keep out of oiled- shirts and ‘heavy black evening clothes, but we doubt they'll suc- ceed—.not as long an there is one woman who thinks s sombre black dress suit sets off her scant and filmy colorful drapes.

Golf Ia a form of work made ex- pensive enough for business men to enjoy. It is what letter-carrying, ditch-digging and carpet-beating would be if they n11 had to be per-

formed on the some hot afternoon. m

Pslll Talbot writes in Opportunltli; 'I.‘he game la played on careful manicured grass, with little white balls and as many clubs as the Rlsycizé can afford. A golf course so

necessary, and are put in to make the game harder. A “hole" is a tin cup i.n the centm of the “green.”

“green" i: a smell parcel of grass costing about $1.66, s blade, and usually located between s brook and a cou le of apple trees, or a lot of "un nlshed excavation." The ides is to get the ball from a given point into each of tho 18 tin cups with the fewest number of strokes and the greatest number cf words. The bell must not. be thrown, push- ed or carried. It must be propelled by about Q10 worth of curious look- lug Instruments, especially design- ed to provoke the owner. After the final, or 18th hole, the golfer adds up his score and stops when he reaches 8'1. He then has a shower, Q pint o: gin, rings "Sweet Ade- line" with six or eight other liars and calls 1t a perfect dsy.

Windsor seems on be full o! 1w“-

le in a great hurry. Not. merely busy, but in a fleet hui-ry- NM merely busy, but in a desperate rush. There are drivers who, faced with a rod light, invariably edge up on the pedestrian crosswalk. This can mean only that every fnch, every fraction of a second. counts, It is _worth considering whet this "hlnching" means in time saved. Boy e car goes 10 feet be- yond the line, and thus Bets that much of a "jump" when the light changes. At S) miles on hour, a car will travel that 10 feet in approximately I1 seconds. Certain- ly that ls a saving of time. If 10 stops have to be made in _o day. with 10 feet gained each time, a grand total of more than d second has been saved! Impressive as that may sound we cannot believe that. many peo le are in that much o! a hurry. - indlor Star,

Quosnel river is being exploited for its gold rather than protected as a salmon hatchery. The choice. so far as we can discover, was mode by chance tether than by government policy. Permission to

gold has been given to an enter- prising outfit called North Ameri- can Goldfields, which is building three mammoth dredges to tear up the gravel bars. Etperlence in Culi- fornla and elsewhere proves that fishing can't thrive on the some streams as drcdgm. Yet high tropes had been hold that the Quesnel might recover lts former status as the greatest sorkz-ye incubator in the world. SlZC-{PEZQ of Hell's Gate in 1913 killed lt and the salmon disappeared from this tributary of the Fraser. But there was every reason to beliove it would make a comeback utter the fish ladders were Installed to ‘typos: the block- ade. -—Vancouver Sun.

Jay walking in Northern Ireland is against the law, which is rigor- c-usly applied and carried out like all laws in the British Isles. There is no favoritism The Montreal Gazette report. An example is seen 1n a recent account of a cate be- fore the Resident Magistrate of n smell town in the County of Ty- rone ln Northern Ireland. Bernard Begley, Creggundeveelty. Oorrlck- more was summoned for jay walk- ing. e polce sold defendant, at Carrlckmore Fair, hsd stepped out in front of a motor car and got knocked down. ‘Thomas Mclllhat- ton, a mflor lorradriver, laid he was approacliln rrlckmore from the Omazh and near the m he new a crowd of people. He‘ ch ed from third I gear d

a fine ye a ofendant. And that's that!

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HOW T0 ECONOMIZI‘

Sin-In answer mMr. Arch Mo- Kamlrs letter-I would like to know what he proposes to do with the duily offering of 81,000. if there isn't any food to buy? It ull de- pends on the hard working fer- mer-he has to grow more food for needless eating. Why not cut out all the banquets that are held at hotels for ordinary business meetings and the different socie- lies. We see them advertised ev- ery day 1n the opera. There enough crusts of read thrown out ct Chinese restaurants across Co- nada to feed China. ‘These are the places of the greatest waste-not the ordinary herd working fam- ily where we have to use up all the left-overs. I um, Sir etc., _

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PROPOSED WEST POINT FERRY

Sin-I must congratulate Mr. A. J. Matluzeon on his letter re the possibilities 01's ferry service be- tween West. Point and Buctouche. N.B. I am quite pleased to sea that this is being considered. as Lhlshasbeenaoetidesuttmtne for quite some time. The only crltlcisn I have to ofler is that while the writer made a fine job of showing the time saved 1n such service. he felled to deal with the financial sevtrm. Some time ago while the transportation ques- tion was beino discussed I wrote a letter to the press contouring the freight robes on the Borden and ‘rtmnentuie route with that of the

and ed that we have a similar service in West Prime. I also asked for on expression of opinion on the matter. but table be of no interest. u so

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response. However. at n or the Board of Trade held at A1- bexton last summer I hroimht this matter up. and I om pleased to saymtaheiy recognized it. ‘and I y; n some corrmsnndezmc exchanged with the Richtbuoto Boom of Trade. u some timelltvr I sa/w where they were advocetlgg such a service. I also unde that this project was included in a brief presented by the Board to the Regional Reoo uuvlOn Board. Mr. Matheson 508880“ this matter should be taken up at Ottawa by our representative. Mr. MoNought. While I realize that Mr. MscNsught is 100% behind this move. I am not too sure that we want the eml Government to control such o service (even if they were etlvee) for. if they had the power they could do as they did with our Borden. tum 1t ova‘ to the 0N3. to operate, and than we could ex- m“; prohibitive rate. especially and motor c den which 1s over 76% Wood Island which I is privately

t understand operated. However. should Mr. MacNatwbt get the terms oft Confederation intole- mstited I am sure we will get even a much streamer rate than Wood Islands, for I ve betbre me the temis of edemtlcn which reads. "In lieu of certain concessions made bv he we were to have continuous steam service and all expenses defrwed by the Dominion o! Canada for 036881141- ers and mails. and any concessions granted to other provinces should be ztven us.” Now as I read these terms they were to unite our Province politically. commercially, and wbeoszraphioally es was done with ritish Columbia. they tun- n-eled through the mountains to fulfill their agreement. and was completed within six years frau date of agreement.

Now. 1n conclusion I mm say that this should be o matter of mucnh interest to the citizens of Prince Country 1n “guard. and Wst Prince 1n p cuter. and should they decide to have this a Government operated se I am sure that the stage is all set for e real try. for it must be remember- ed West Prince did well by our Premier. Hon. W. L. enaie King. Col. J. L. Raiston and our present representative J. Watson MaoNaught who is in line with the present administration at Ottawa. and our Minister of Public Works Hon. G. H. Barbour. And as I understand our Provincial Premier Hon. .7. W ter Jones was one of the promoters cf the service at

soiling. However. should

considered better to have it priv- ately owned and operated with s Government subsidy asst Wood Island. now is the time to got

feel that our Board of

should follow this ‘matter up, and I am sure they will have the sup- port of all our nubile men.

I am. sir. etc.-

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