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llornlnQVDaily (Founded in i087) Aathoria ’ as Second Class Mall. Poss 08100 Department. Ottawa. President, inn A. Burnett; Vice-s reaidenf. Wm. B. Burnett; Secya-Tream, G. M. Bumett; Editor and Managing Director, J. R. Burnett; Associate Editor, Frank Walker.

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

MONDAY, JUNE l. 19-17 Parliamentary Sessions

lt is now calculated the Parliamentary ses- sion will not end before Juiy 15 at earliest. Much of the program with which Prime Minister King startled fellow members last Wednesday can't be disp red of before that date, for after the budget debate is finished and the budget res- olutlons debated and passed the question of money for the fiscal year has to be thought of. All this increased legislative work has made it plain to House members that the old time four- month session is gone beyond recall, that tho entire agenda for the session could be better handled in an eight-month session, four months in the curly part of the year and the other four in the late fall. Because most members are rebelling against summer sittings that is the sort of arrangement that will eventually be adopted. Canada inherited an impressive list of boards and ‘commissions as a result of its tremendous contribution to the winning of World War ll, and it would be quit-a idle to hope for the com- plete demobilization of this post-war family. Many of them are here tostay, -unless_Parlia- merit really gets serious about their disband- ment, and so long as they take the final con- trol over, the making of large policy will be In their hands, and it is this policy-making by boards and high-placed officials and advisors that is continuing to swell the legislative busi- ness confronting Commoners. .___________

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Apropos the application for 30 per cent in- crease in freight rates some rather reassuring facts emerged from evidence recently given in Ottawa by Mr. Lonard J. Knowles, freight traf- fic manager of the Canadian National Railways.

Mr. Knowles announced that the freight traffic earnings on the Canadian National Ra_il- ways, Canadian lines, for the month of April,

totalled some $24,336,000. This was nearly $4,000,000 more than for the corresponding month of i946. ln answer to Mr. Wilson E.

MgLean, K.C., Manitoba counsel, Mr. Knowles conceded that industrial production in Canada is good.

"Statements such as these," comments the Winnipeg Free Press, "come as o refreshing change after the unrelleved gloom of the prog- nosticatioris being mode by railway pundits o few months ago. i

"One of the factors hampering the rail- ways during the winter months was the abnormal severity of the weather. That handicap has passed. Another was the box-cor shortage. This, too, will be relieved in time.

._..."ln spite of all difficulties, railway freight traffic in Canada continues to show heavy vol; ume. There is reason to expect it will be well maintained for some months at least. The blue-ruin talk of some other railway spokes- men appears to have b-een unwarranted."

llliuroiillfs Example

lf there is one ability in our time that ls being exaggerated, says the Montreal Gazette, it is the ability to plan. And if there is one ability that is being underrated, it is the ability to improvise. For the final test is not opinion but reality. And if realrty may be foreseen and planned far, it can also wear an inscrutable face and will exact the capacity to improvise before the unexpected.

ln his inaugural address as chancelloriof the University of New Brunswick, Rt. Hon. Lord Boa- verbrook cited one of the historic examples of the value of improvisation. In speaking of Win. stun Churchill and the Battle of Britain, he des- cribed Winston Churchill's greatest gift and contribution as lying in his ability to improvise with resolution and flexibility at a moment when all plans had collapsed before the unex- pected. Reality ond planning had collided, and only improvisation cauid provide a solution.

iidsilymilirice Controls

Canada's price control programme, Inaug- urated soon after the outbreak of war, cost the vuxpayers the tidy fatal of $657,486,791 up to March 31, 1947. This was revealed in a Gov- ernment report recently tabled in the House of Commons.

Of this huge total, by far the greatest part, amounting to $480,061,699, went to meet the costs of administration of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, with its associated compan- ies, and to supply the vast disbursements of the Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation. The administration of the Prices Board itself accounted for $61,514,000, wlfils that of its as- sociated companies absorbed $7,683,564.99. The operations of the pondcrous Commodity Prices Stabilization Corporation used up no less a sum than $4l0,864,l33.0Z.

The agricultural subsidies paid out during the period to stimulate production, were broken down in the Goveifimcnt report to show this al- location: Miik for fluid consumption, $44,451,- 049.33; 'butter fat for creamery butter, $84,- 104,622.20; fertilizer subventions, $3,104,788.19;

‘freight aid on alfdfa meal, $97,496.46; freight

lid on alfalfa seed, $51,810.21. Total, $131,809,766”. Supply subsidies disbursed by tho Depart-

ment of Munitions and Supply, presided over by Hon. C. D. Howe, who once said, "what do a few hundred millions amount to anyway?"— were allocated in the amounts and in the items listed below:

Steel, $137,836.67; coke, $2,037,684.50; timber, $92,885.50; copper, $2,342,638.02; rub- ber, $156,925.28; oil, $56,051.44; cool, $36’. 521,141.91; loss on wood fuel operations, $4,- 270,162.71.

Total, $6,615,326.03.

This costly programme is still in operation, although on a very greatly reduced scole,—- necessarily abbreviated in this third year after the conclusion of the war in Europe. But it con- tinues to contribute to the enormous taxation burden the people of Canada are carrying.

- EDITORIAL NOTES .-i

We now enter the leafy month of June. i 1r fi i

It does not do to boast immoderately, but haven't we had, and aren't we having, wonder- .ful weather, making us the envy of three con- tinénts?

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lf we do not succeed in our protest against 30 per cent increase in our -railway freight rates, it will not be because we failed to put up a good cos-e before the ommissioners.

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Penalties for drunken driving will be made more severe under an amendment to the Crim- inal Code which Prime Minister King indicated in Commons will be introduced this session. The bill also will make certain other changes to the Code which have become necessary since the Code last was amended.

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Dionne, industrialist of Quebec, having led the way, the door is slowly but surely opening for increased immigration to develop Canadian in- dustries. lt will probably take a general elec- ti_on and new parliament to introduce and put into effect a new policy which will commend it- self to east, west and middle Canada. But Dionne having set an example, it will not be so hard for others to follow in his flight.

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One of the great scarcities during the war was olive oil-thbt family necessity. lt is now nearly ended. The olive harvest in Morocco is now nearing complstion and seems to be one of the largest in recent years. lt will probably surpass 70,000 tons. The average yield of the olive crop in oil is 18 or 19% of the total ton- nage of olives. In the Marrakech region alone 25,000 tons of olives are usually produced.

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A business man, who ought to know, advises us that one of the reasons for the great meas- ure of prosperity we are enjoying is the Baby Bonus. ln days past, after the harvest was reap- ed and marketed, and after navigation closed there was practically no‘ spare money of any kind in the hands of Mrs. Householder until _the following year. Now, thanks to the Baby Bonus, where there are little ones-and in an agricul- tural province like this there are always, or should always be, little ones, money flows into the household coffers regularly every month, and soon finds its way into the till of the merchants throughout the lsland. W

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Guiseppe Garibaldi, ltalian patriot and rev- olutionary, died this date i882; a naval officer he came under the influence of Mazzini and was involved in the futile revolt in Genoa, he emigrated and was involved in revolts in Brazil and Uruguay; returning to ltaly in 1848 he gave support to the republic estdblished by Mazzini; he again escaped, and reached U. S. A., where he raised sufficient monty to buy an estate for himself on the Island of Copero, Sardinia; he made this his headquarters for conquering Naples, but submitted to King Victor Emmanuel; he made three unsuccessful attempts to capture Rome; he went to war with Napoleon, against the Prussians; was subsequently elected deputy for Rome in ltalian parliament, and ultimately accepted a pension.

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Live births in Canada during the second quarter of 1946 numbered 79,563 (preliminary figures) giving an equivalent annual rate of 26.0 per 1000 popu tion as compared with 75,739 births and a ra e of 25.1 for the second quart- cr of 1945. There were 3,318 illegitimate births forming 4.2 per cent of all live births as com- pared with 3,412 or 4.5 per cent. Stillbirth; amounted to 1,670 or 21.0 per 1',000 live births as against 1,721 and a rate of 22.7. Deaths totalled 26,737 with a rate of 8.7 per 1,000 pop- ulation as compar_ed with 28,828 and a rate of 9.6. The natural increase for the quarter was 52,826 giving a rate of 17.3 per 1,000 popula- tion as against 46,91l and a rate of 15.5. There were 36,561 marriages giving a rate of 11.9 as cgainst 30,274 or a rote of 10.0 in the second quarter of 1945.

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The dependence of Canada upon foreign trade, says the Canadian Bunk of Canada Com- mercial Letter, has been emphasized on many occasions and illustrated in various and con- vincing forms. A, graphic and easily under- standable demonstration is one that shows that three out of eight people in Canada owe th-P‘ livelihood, wholly or partly, to export trade. This Bank once estimated-about fifteen years ago —that 30 per cent of the total average yearly national production had to find markets abroad, a proportion confirmed in the main by subse- quent calculations in other quarters. Approx- viately the same ratio has continued, as may be seen by applying the value of commodity er‘!- ports to the net nationai production, as rc- ported annually by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Thus, 27 par cant of the net yolue of notional production in I938 was exported and

slightly over 30 per cont in 1946.

‘liotos By tlio Way

In ‘ ‘ ua India. legislation la enacted which abolishes the Un- touchable. It. msy. however, be; some little time before one can hlt up any stranger for a loan. - wimilpeg ‘Tribune.

Canned corn ls stroked off the list of foodri suitable for rend- fnz to Britain. The folks over there have yet to learn the taste and pleasure of eating corn from lllf.‘ rob, and what. they do miss! — Part Arthur News-Chronicle.

American military government uuthori-tles in Germany are dis- couraged because so many of the displaced persons there don't wont to gn home. The problem now seems to be how to displace the displaced persons. who prefer dis 17:869. — Woodstock Sentinel-Re- \' E\V,

France. like Britain. Isle been esi- gagcd/ln a great drive to increase whorls. and like Britain has a- chieved g great measure of success, says The Ottawa Citizen. At the end of 1946. ll: has been announc- érl, French exports stood at 61 per- cent of her imports. g figure near- ll’ R5 Rood as the 66 percent avg!- r-ige 1n 1938.

Rustin!!!‘ state trial lasted seven years and cost Warren Hastings £10000. A civil case before. the Pisa courts. which was settled fi- nally in 1939. hacl been before the courts for 38 years. As one goes farther and farther back in history, the records get longer. says The Manchester Guardian. One of the wear-lest laivrslts on record in this country was between the Llslas and the Berkeley's over the ownership of s. piece of land ‘in Gloucester- shire. It. dragged on for I20 years. That, again, is easily beaten by the Thlerry case af a fortune left by a wealthy shoemaker in 1876. which i-ame up for further hearing about 30 years ago.

Bobby-soxero-Jlho young fry who make that noise emanating from the audience when is crooner starts hleating-are tough babies. sys The Calgary Albertari. 1i is a mys- tery to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology sci-enlist. how they manage to stay alive on what they eat. Rabbits can't. A group of in- vestigators fed rabbits sodas. CEHd)’, popcorn. hat clogs and other bobby- sox fodder. In three months every one of the poor bunnies W85 dead. This information solves one minor mystery- \vl1y some bobby-scorers swoon at the first quiver of a Sinatra tonsil. It‘; not magnetism, it's malnutrition. '

According 6n acreage estimates recently released. Canadian farm- ers. in s year when food shortages remain as acute as ever all over the ivnrld, are sowing a million less acres in wheat than they did last year. It must be hoped. there- fore, that present, antlcipations of a heavy crop will be realized, for it ‘rs fairly obvious that. if the North American crops fall, the \\’fll‘l(1. gnrl particularly Europe, will suffer a \'L‘l'_\' great disaster. But. real statesmanship. it seems to us, \\'(li.ll(1 be better served .if Canada were to concentrate. "so long as the food crisis lasts. upon the maximum production of the chief bulwark against famine -t.he pro- rficliidrimiiiiil“ i "T653517 iimlVfdrii FEET‘ Star.

That little story from Portland. who ls

Mal-no. about the bride working as g stone mason was doubtless intended to be inspir-

ing, g1 may ivcll be, for bride- g-rooms no less iTian for brides. thinks The New York Sun. Mrs. Geneva Stifflerls father said she learner! in wield a cement trowel at an age when mast girls prefer tn play with dolls. Now that she's 20, and married. the trade that was probably n pastime in child- hood becomes profitable. with brlcklay-ers earning $2 an hnur. Of course. during the war. girls in factories and shipyards proved a- gain that they could turn soft hands’ to rough labor. Many of lhnse workers who handled a mn- chirie with ease are now baking cakes 01‘ mending babies‘ clothes, and who will say that the skill \\’l1l'f‘ll then helped velleve men for vi-nrfarc rllfl not eventually make hotter wives and mothers? It Mrs. Stifflei- flf Portland can draw any lesson from her awn current oc- cupation. therefore. it may be that she \\"'/ merely rip/prove of any manual dexterity that can he tauglil lo small girls. ivhether Ul‘ not li later brings $2 an hour. This seems desirable in an era in which grandmothers may span n continent in let. planes.

‘People don‘t want tn nee ll III! ivlilstllni: while they're having din- ner," ,1, New York night club own- er once told Fred Loweryg accord- ing to Coronet. That cafe impre- iiarln deserves n page in theatrical history‘ a.ll_ln himself —ns the world's. worst, talent scout! For the musician he turned away ~-a larl from the little lawn of Palestine. Tcxris~hiis been applauded in night clubs and theatres from mast to coast. has been featured on lop radio shows, and could live comfortably on the royalties from his i-erorrllmgs alone. As lf that were not enough. he has wan critical recognition from John Charles Thomas. Alec Templeton. Fritz Kreislcr and others. Krelsler. in far-t, was s0 impressed with Laivervn talent. that he did ii spec- lal arrangement of his Caprice Vlenriols for whistling. Lowery first learned to whistle by lml- tating birds in the Texas cotton folds. Orphaned as nn infant and partially deprived of his sight. by n childhood illness. he spent. l0 years tn the state School for the

Blind at Austin. Summers he pick- ed cotton an his grandmother's farm. When n whistler named Ern- est Nichols visited the school, Fred got an audition and was advised to make n career of whistling. Within a year he was giving con-

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’ i vuouc FORUM This ooiamn la open to the diaollllon by corro- spondonts of questions u lssllrolt. The Charlottetown Guardian does not uaoemr- ti; endorao tho opinion of oorrelpondcnh.

FOREST ‘FIB-ES

Sim-I was interested in a re- cent item from Fredericton. deal- ing with forest fire control and announcing "award of is contract for aerial forest. patrol", (Guardian May b).

Psrhvos u is mturiu that irie trend to "conservation" should be swine the snolligihl these days, following a global War wllh its unparalleled waste and do. strucilon?

Be that as it may. it is becam- ing clearer been dny thgt, m, BO-HS-sbu-please era for exploit- ation of either forests. farmers or fishermen is over! Only the other dfly I read of the annual fire-loss ln Canadian forests-end the ut- list liacl driven the point, home by drawing g crimson line across the Dominion, and northward to the Yukon. just a mile wide; 0i‘ just 4.000 square miles. It credible, but according to Robson Black. of the Canadian Forestry

Association, while Canadg has thirteen limes Sweden's forest mileage: "Loss fhain 10.000 acres

from end to end of Sweden have been fireswept annually in the past si-x years, and rarely do more than 20.000 ‘acres suffer. Canada's record is a blt. otherwise. In each year of the last decade we in. clnerabed 2.500.000 acres of per- fectly good forest. This caused a bonfire of 400 million cubic feet of the public-owned storehouse of wood in each twelve months. Of course. none of our Canadian for- ests ever commits suicide; slrx thauS-anrl pairs of hand-s chip la- geiher 1o make us this gift of full-blown mssdemeanour. The universal hostility toward forest fires Ls the birthright of every Swedish citizen. From his first school years he has been taught. the beauty and friendliness of tree life. and the reliance of his community and his nation upon the green ramparts of the far- ests."

I would like to see the begin- ning of the erirl rif "adult delin-

quency" in Canadian forests! I am. Sir. elr. "RANGER." Those Guys In The Office (The scene)

The skilled and unskilled manual workers in industry usually re- garri "those Buys in the office" as a clique of loafers iviia fatten on the efforts of those who do the "real work."

Sir Stafford Criprps. President of the British Board of Tracie. ap- peared ln person, after a letter explaining his views had been POQlEClGd. to tell five hundred trade union delegates why he docs rial. think the workers are sufficiently experienced in managerial func- tions to take over industry.

Sir Stafford, ii managerial gen- ‘ius hlfflS8lf;"“lS"‘lEfll’I1i112"ffnm law bor about industrial politics, us- uolly called "industrial relations. As Minister of Aircraft Production during the war he observed the lack of managerlaltrainlng and great inequalities in managerial skill in factories.

Far from regarding management as a burden on plTldiicilOn. he said: "We are not suffering from a. superflulty of managerial skill but from o, lack of lt, and that skill can only he attained by experience arid study and through an intimate acquaintance with all those factors with which manage- ment must deal .. It is quits wrong to imagine that an intelli- gent worker or foreman can, with- out trslnlng. become n good mana- ger. There are at tho present mo- ment very few workers who could take on jobs o-f management; not because they nre workers. but be- cause they have not had the op- portunity of training for the lob."

Later on the ll'Hdc_ill1iOIl dele- gates may requjrre Sir Stafford to give another command perform- ance to explain why management must be paid much more than manual workers, if it is to be had at all. He might toll them that it ts because many "will resort to any expedient to avoid lhe pain of thinking."

WILD WRITING PAPER.

The only place in Ehirone where papyrus grows wild is nn the banks of the Anapo Rive: in Sicily. 1-——---- ---—--~ - lion. New York W85 the next. stop, despite mauv rebuffs. Lowery wris soon whistling with big-name or- i-hestras nnrl appearing on network radio shows. One of the secrets of his success was knowing the right anrl wrong way to whistle, almost from the start. The right way, he says. ls with lips relaxed, not puckered. Pucker-trig mlnl- mizes the wind content. of the mouth and creates n narrow rush of air and harsh lone.

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Mr. Bevin On The Peace Treaty With Germany

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On refugees Mr. Bevin sold lie was parry the suggestion had not. been adopted that there should be a German Commission to study how the refugees should bl most equitably distributed throughout the zones. and added that. he would press for lt again. The vitally 1m- portant question was freedom of movement. Unless there was free- dom of travel th. ugliout the country as a whole to places where work arid houses were to be found, there could be no chance of dc- veloping g, peaceful and democratic Germany.

Dealing with points apr-\'. Mr. Bevlrn spoke of the liquidation of Prussia. They also agreed an the repatriation of prlaoriers of war. To absorb 2 m-llllon of them into the German economy without pre- paration might cause difficulties and a steady ratio should be set- tled ss the industries developed. They hiid made progress but fail- ed to roach final agreement on tl-is plan to nominate a German body la advise the Control Council on various matters. They hail ii rlls- russiori an the d.‘ lslari of power govern- ment arid the Iaender. They e- groed that legal pnd financial