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flue Guardian may be obtained st: llnh Toluooo Shop, Monoton, N. ls The News Shop, Monoton, N. B» George McLean Ploton, N. S. Wllkefl Whlte Spot, ll Salter Si», Klllhx, H.8- Motropolltan News Agency, 1248 Peel Stu Montreal United Cigar Stores. Chateau Llnrler Ottawa, Ont. B. Altlren, Lord Elgln’; Hotel. Ottlwl. Ont. J. Fine, 354 Bay Sh. Toronto Ont. Wolle’: News Stand, Sndbnry. Ont. Old Sonth News. Cor. Milk and Washington Sh. Bolton Inkling’: News Agency Times Building, New York.

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

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THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1948

A Word For Farmers

"That farmers have the right t0 work c0- operativcly cannot be disputed," the Rev- Anthony Adams, Si, told a OaScHe interview- gf in Montreal. “.-\iitl I personally believe that in such work they should be safeguarded by legislation to distinguish them from corpora- tion fariiicrs who Iizive ilificrt-iit objectives."

Father .'i\(I£l.1llS, Clllllllllllll of the Rural Sec- tion 0f the Jesuit Iiistitute of Social Order, condemned commercial farming, by which he meant, big-scale, oiic~cr<>j> farming “in which the primary olijcctivc is soil exploitation for large financial rcturiis," as a "big busifleflii» 3P‘ plying factory methods to aflflcllllufe-i,

IIe advocated, oii the other hand, family- sized farming, yirtiii-ctctl by the cooperative sys- tem. He said lllill he believed that agriculturfi and industry should be viewed as team mates in,a nation's battle for freedom from want, each having its own jiositioii to 1ilziy “in the style that best corresponds to that ixvsitirui."

Discussing the jiart he believed filiflfillltufe should trike in the life of a nation, the Jesuit, author of 1W0 works on rural stibjects, again struck out at cmnnicrcial farming, which, if adopted nationally, he said would force the family-sized farmer from the laud.

He then pointed out that the strength and nvliolcsoniencss of faiiiily life largely determin- ed the strength of a nation, and that rural areas have all along proven themselves a far more WIIOICSOIIIE environment for fainil)’ 11f"- than liave the large industrial centres. Nation-

‘-<¢ i i- " .. ......, w..@rv-....4.._~._'a -imsr-i.c=;<»:.a f - ‘I

wide commercial farming, he stressed, would

thus cause the loss of man)’ of ti“ CF01? °f 1°‘

morrows citizens. _ Father Adams then remarked that wealth m

terms of monetary capital mlflllt “fake a M‘

tion temporarily powerful, but that it also car-

ried the gcrnis 0f conflict. “Howcver." he

said. “wealth, in tcriiis of people, and of na- ~ tural resources justly divided, generates strength, prosperity and peace." r

He also Iielicvcd that private ownership of productive prorcrtv must be maintained as a natural right of the individual but that to safe- guard this right and its frce exercise, legislation may he necessary in certain instances “to curb monopolistic tciirlcncics."

\Vith<>1it social legislation which ivoiild safe- guard the iiattiral rights of both the laboring man and the farniIy-sizctl farmer, there will b‘: neither real progress nOr free enterprise.

The Privy Council

The judicial Committee of the Privy Council is still one of the niost potent tangible links be- tween Canada and (_il'Clll llritain. To many P90‘ ple it is an abstract thing; to others an Ini- perialistic relic that could bc thrown overboard. Bu, ever\r()nc agfggs on the enormously import- Int rolc it has jilaycd. No institutionon ‘earth ranks high,“ in In-cgligg than the British ]\.ldlC- iary system. I

Discussing its place iii

the Commonwealth

r about it:

Nine out of ten Britons, if they ivcre asked to describe the Iiiijicrial I‘rivy Council, would probably remark that it is a largely anachronis- tic body to which all British cabinet 11111115135 belong, to which distinguished Britons are Bl)‘ pointed» as an honour, and ivliich occasionally mgefs 1n pqrfnrm some unrealistic but attractive ceremonial. _

Few of thcin know that it is the final Court of appgfll for the Dominions and Colonies: and fgw would even believe that it lS responsible for interpreting the cnnslililllon of Canada and Australia. The British are accustomed to their . bwn unwritten constitution. embodied in a vast i lssemblagc of ariciciit PYKKIBYII- wlmh P371"? mcnt can modify at will to suit chantzlfll! flfwm‘

~j stances. _ Provincial Rights‘ G0!"

"Biy itsinsislcncethat its OWN POW" mubt now be recognized as absolute, says Monlrwl Golitlift. the federal government has placed the provinces and all minorities in an insecurity ithlt they have never known before. The eX- tent of this insecurity was frankly dISCIOSe(I'8 "fgwxldgyg 1K0 by Rf. Hon. LOUIS Si. Laurent, I y. Minister of Justice, wlicn he made the . dented claim thiit- any federal govern- Iiss the power, if it should ever have the I ‘on, to abolish the rightsof. the French ' . i e in Canada. This CIlllTl, by itl eit- mo. nature. indicates that the federal 20W!“- ihlllt desires to establish an unlimited and absolute power over even the moat fundamental

oldlotsxtol Canadian life‘. . . . s etfllrely natural and necessary that the of Canada should seek to enlarge its It the expense of the authority exer ‘ w, I days by the government of x . filngdom. But ft inns-unnatural u 1t ll i i tlht should elm leek to enllfl’! at the of rlie security of the _' ~_ jI-Qhllpoe that wile division of . ' . " which ls essential to

detonated

jgltiiismibq ah . P,

sertion of this illogical claim that the one type of federal expansion involves and justifies the other is at the very core of the crisis in Canadian Confederation that the Liberal government is at present creating.

“If the Liberal government's novel claim is conceded, by assent or by default, every regional, religious, racial, financial and educational right in the country will rest upon no firmer or more enduring basis than the tolerance or iticliiizitioii of the present or some future federal cabinet and its disciplined party majority.

“This, surely, is absolutist centralization with a vengeance."

Those Thirteen Billions

The net funded debt of Canada at the end of this fiscal year will be about $i3.0oo,0o0,oo0, says the Minister 0f Finance. The average in- tercst rate is 2.59 per cciit.

The population of this country, notes the Ottawa Journal, is about 13,000,000. This means that the individual share of the debt is $1,000-—an inescapable burden on Every man, woman and child in Canada. The carrying charge on $1,000 of this debt is about $26 a year, so that the statistical family of five has a. fixed obligation of $130 a year to be met out 0f taxes in one way or another. On top of that the family has, of course, its share of all the costs of current government.

In effect this debt imposes a mortgage of $5.000 on this typical family, and it is not off- set by any government bonds the family may hold because tlicy represent savings from iii- dividual initiative and personal economy.

— EDITORIAL NUIES —-.

Indcjicntleiice Day in I’.S.:i\. i‘ N? i *

Michael George Charles of the late Duke of Kent,

H. R. H. Prince Franklin, second son

born this date 19.11. Ill

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The coming together 0f the Reconstruction Committees here was a little too late to be ef- fective. The Federal Liovcrnnictit has got rid of their still-born child.

>l< ill ‘F 1K

It depends on wlietlicr you live here or on Bikini liOw you pronounce it. l\I0st people call the atom-test atoll Buh-kee-nee, accenling the second syllable and slighting the last. Natives, however, say Bick-iii-ih, with the accent on the first syllable, like piccaninny.

Ill ‘ll l? 1K 1

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The confusion ovcr the border caused by the automatic removal of price control is reacting more on the “havcs" than the "have nots". It is usually the way wlicn there is a flare up in

the stock markets. it‘

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There is still hope for the Ilaritimcs that shipping will not go right through to the lakcs. The U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Re- lations’ reporhaiiiendiiig the St. Lawrence \Vater\vay Agreement, so Iliat the U. S. Gov- ernment has exclusive control of diversion from Lake Michigan, has upset even the fanatical Ontario believers in the St. Lawrence

make further tremendous investments in water- ways and power plants, which might be put

age canal.

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Veterans ivisliing to purchase livestock and

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Council RC. 1325 recently passed.

can still borrow further. iv m

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and doubtless some Government scats

likely that there will be a change of government

the House of Representatives.

years. State representation is:

5 each. The party strengths are '.— Labor, 49

a majority of two. n-

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present circumstances.

Messrs. Ilsley. St. Laurent rinl Howe.

be a Rt. Hon? hardly becomes well a man who voluntarily re tires while there is work yet to be done.

ha!

water- way, fOr it is clear that Canada caiiiiot afford to

out of business by Chicago deepening its sew-

equipnient for a farm they have rented iiiay borrow up to $3,000 according to an Order-in- This means that a velcran who figures that the present price of a fariii is Iicyoiid his Iiniit to purchase may yet enter into agreement with the owner to rciit it, and still be able to stock the farm. TIICII, if at a later date the price of the farm has drop- pcd and he wishes to purchase it the veteran

. A Federal election will be held in Australia Rm?’ a Lmldm correspondent has this to Say 'later in the year-September or October-and the fate of the Criflcy labor Government will be decided. Labor's strength is above normal will change, but at the moment it docs not scent

Several issues are boiling up, however, and the picture may change considerably before poll- ing day. There are two clccted Houses in the Commonwealth Parliament — the Senate and It is the House of Representatives vOte which changes Minis- tries. There are 74 members in the House, each elected by an individual constituency for three New South Wales 28, Victoria 20, Queensland 10, South Australia 6, and West Australia and Tasmania

Liberal, i5; Country Party, i0; totals 74. The Opposition must therefore win 13 seats to have

On the whole, says Printed Word, it wOuId seem as if the hale and hearty Mr. King will be doing his party a disservice if he retires under Three members of his Cabinet, report says, are likely to be gone in any event. These three may be the ablest and ceii- 0! tainly command the most respect. They an: In the second rank are Messrs. Gardiner, Abbott, Mari- Y tin and Claxton, but none would seem right now to be a captain. Or perhaps the Hon. Ian Mackenzie would one day n0minate himself to The role of elder statesman

The Llberil party has been kind to Mr. King since that day 26 years ago when he, a yourigish man, was preferred u leader over other: with better claims. The Liberal party today has serious “ u problem: ahead’ and e landed proprietor of‘ h Kingnmcre cannot iiistly waiili his hand: of these

problems. Mr. Gladstone m; fighting stiff election! for years beyond the present lg: of ' Mr. King and it llltl tfitillr. Churclllllj "time frolflllfltlg m». a e can: 444ml: ~ -

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Notes By The- Way

Plflureu f dnl-bed 511880»! that? hlgnieshare OIQCVI‘: Estrar.s=a.:?*""='- o“ w“

Sou: 15%;," Blwrlntie (Iif-inmtiiiirlal for“, I3. hmdl"! ‘JP Mill manu setup agape B-lwr Mlyln for a sult, w}; "rriburiiiied the p” m‘ Twmmp’?

the ezs

Then no t °f 0111111011 Iidliierowlfiicli firms‘ Pleasure 0U! of pleasure drlv. I18—-a motorist teal-mg 11mm, Bu, hiflhwfly or s. contractor tearing it, I111. —Klngst.on Whlg-standam

John L. B

hm- Sussex. izrikgiaiig‘ $2,‘; 5?," ImY-QIKht- He was the "fathgr qf televlslon, having been the n“ 312$,’ ff, the lelevlsoi- the rust me “r elevl-slllo» apoaratus. A11. gum: ° "1056 slow Britons who

i” ‘° “ms through with one rigs m Mimi

. —Brant.ford Exposltoiq

A Detroit en ' ed a car whlgfineeii pheaalrsdirsilxii; about lhe 135! word n auwmouv engineering. Included are. Mow? able reclining chairs for all but the driver, a bu]; Sea; that Co.) V9119 Info a double bed- a fjQrg $355 plastic W51; doors conlmil- by electric push-buttons m“ ° “Med 5 “n85. and an Ienglrwe Paced at the rear, In short every}. ‘M118 bu! an allfonmtfc ' for back-seat drivers Albertan. '

muzzler ~Calga ry

Remember the girl-harvest ex- curslons? Remember the trains that pulled cut for tlie prairies, t0 '1“. 111111" Plains and the wheat fields and l e blg meats and blg talk u;

1 W951? That was a long llme $3“ fflend- a 0M! lime ago. Now it's n reverse. This year Oninrl/o ha; i1 bumper crop. Our fields are 1-1911 with the good things of the mp1, The have even called (o, 25300 and tlonail men t."- come ‘rum the Wes! lo help gather ln the" hsrvesi. Cmne 9353. vaun man. come easy —Ha.mllton Spec mo;

Thknklng all 8,11 | ,, l-hlng canadii riggcs It“: 381111 B. state of development ma

e advancement. cf one part or gne country naturally benefits all soon 0!‘ late. In this Dominion there are national and DTOVIncIaI issues. each of ‘hem Yeqlliflflir careful thought. 11nd attentlon. What helps agricult- ure helps Industry, and a pmspzr. o“ “m5”? rfsPfinds by providing a 151801‘ mark" for agriculture. A bell" mwperailori ls ssible and when men lhlnlc q( I e good n: plhes. rather than selflshly, than; 5 fmnll 1° be R footer and better buldins up of nl sections of .1... Colin-WV than tlirre has been Pu. Ioyed thus far. -Guelph Mercury.

The makers u! pl t" 1,1,] exposltiori in New ‘gold: roe 511:3; 110W many lhlfllls lhey had devised frcm their products says The New York Herald Tribune. on dlsplgv were: Plastic oiigles and trumpets which require no warming up A150 a string orchestra wit), 1,11 jnsti-u. msms 0f plastics. Golf clubs made 0f molded nylon; u plastic boat; a, horse wlth a plastic snddlg (The horse was of the old-fashioned sort.) Plastic Wfllipfipgr on Wynn-n Junior can scribble without getlliip scolded. and a. oluslic gown whlrgii cannot be stained by a spilled cock- mllrrYfill Just nib ll wllh a damp "8- A $39 '02! which manufactures on demand little plastic toys, such as buildings horses, cowboys

The "Little Red Schoolhouse" 0f an earlier day and the preseiir SW61 hardwood and cement cells 0.1’ many universities have pm. ducod excellent szholars, men who have attained the highest, feachgs of their respective rofesslons and vocations. Whether t ey would have rlsen higher wlthln the soft. rad- iance of color anti (XZLTIIOTL ls pru- bliemallcal. Brass bound old-timers vi ll scorn he suggestion that, Dh slcal ease or contentment we ad Ed "1 learning but. they wiii be met with the argument that llmgg and manners change and no Bxpeg-i- men! should no omitted because of scrne preconceived notion that Ii 15 dangerous, O1 a threat, to 31,-; status quo. Ceyiglnly we have Chan ed the factory the office and the time and It may be that we shall have to change the unlvci. 81W classroom if. we are to kee education ln the forefront of posr- war progress and vlslon. —l.nridon Free Press. ,

“l5 Canadian Legion takes the ground that November 11, winch saw the end 1f the First Wqfld wai- in 101B should be preserved as Remembrance Day to honor as well lhose Cafllidll-ns who lost their lives ln the Sectind World War. We think this ls the right dQcjju ion and we should not expgct much contrary sentiment. Remembrance DRY has been observed on Noveiri- bcr 11 for nearly 30 years and ls thoroughly established ln the 00n- Nlvlwwss. not oul of those who fought. with those t honors but. of the younger generation grown up since 1918. Many o; these latggy, scores of thousands of them took up the torch their fatrm-g 1,1,4 dropped. and lt ‘s not surprising no read that. at ‘he Legion coiiveritlmi most of theiir favored maintaining the old famlllur date of Remem~ brance Day. Tradition ls a power- ful force but ‘he logic of this de- clalori la fiqually clear. Clearl vio should no have two days re. membranes, reach of them honoring tlie_,dead of one war and excluding the other. If we were to change to A dlle Mwdoletl with the Second World War would lt be the ennlvor- sary o! the stir-render o! Germany or Japan’! -Ol.ti\ws Journal.

The feet that some persons h Palestine to whom Englls-h l: e foreign tongue have mlslea them- selns lnlto ulve moat market u s "bu dslry

"milk "

o

Jtlslng a tcliery" and s u I 1| mode the subject special non

nd f Jerusalem lo The ow ‘gilt.

Even better specimens of 1 Ill ls muld be foungd ii

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FOIIMANY

A NIW GIAVII I

Walk softly. _ ‘This around ls heavy with libe_duat

of men

which. stirred shroud among the sunllt ,

May not so lle llllnl

Talk softly!

mls rubbe weighs the tongues o! many dead

Which wukened may have louder ways of say

What they dying so l

What. to foresee o! action from the active

Is wrltt lptbooks and everywhere o e

Tl-ieri lead your heavy tread among the llvln

For they forge.

But whai, tine bartered dead may do ls hidden

And wihat of Justice they may know. untried.

It might not proflt yet’ 1,0 lot, them wmrxler

This world for whlch they died.

—Charles Maliim. New York Herald

Danish Agriculture And Effect of War

Danlsh agriculture has ‘ome through the period of German oc- cupation In a sound condition, states Agricul- ture Abroad, published by the Economics Dlvlsion, Domlnlon De- partment of Agriculture. Govern- ment policy endeavoured to maln- tai-n dairy cattle as intact as pos- sible at the expense of other live stock. because milk production was regarded as the keystone of agriculture. Consequently the ie- ductlon in cattle was vlrtually a culling process and resulted ln the general hlgher quality of the stock. ,

However. an over-all deprecia- tion of the agricultural industry took place url-ng the war. “lie shortage of fertilizers. lack of ma- chinery replacements. and curcall- ment of building repairs will iie- cessltate large outlays ln the near future. It ls estimated that lt wlll take 460 million dollars to us-store agriculture to pre-wnr standards.

The variation from year In year In the numbers of plgs has been determined by the amount of home-grown feed. The low was reached In 1942 as the result o!

I

fundamentally '

the exceptionally bud harvest .n 1941, when the total number was 1.206.000. However, breeding stocks were well maintained and are now back to pro-war levels. Although iit German instigation. a premium was placed on heavy pigs. quality of breeding was not allowed to deteriorate and the standard has, If anything, improved.

In regard to bacon, the total production in 1945 fell to about. 43.000 short tons as against 198.- 000 short tons 1n l944—~ o decrease of 23 per cent. Compared with 1939. producllon ln 1946 fleifllllPd 44 per cent. In 1945 Denmark ex-

ported 49.992 short tons of pnrk and bacon, compared with 101.303 short tans and 185.107 short tons (the five-year avenge 1935-39). Of the 1945 exports. about 43 per cont went m th United Kingdom and the U.B. arm of occupation; 34 per cent to Get meiriy. and 14 per cent to Norway Except for 1942. the 1945 expul- ls the lowest slnce at least. 1935. Apart from slight lncldenls o sabotage by the resistance move;

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merit. the bacon factories suffere no material damage. Thelr skllle labour was classlfled; and ma lagers who were under Sesta o surveillance and those l-n co - centratloci camps have return d. Consequently managerial mill y, skilled labour. and DIED! facllil es are available for expansion to p e- war levels.

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