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Morning Daily tFonndod in i887)

President: Lleut. Col. W. Chester 8. Mobile Vice-President: J. B. Burnett, F. J. I. Secretary: Lieut. Col. D. A. Mnoiiinnon, 0.8.0. lditor and “ ' Director: J. B. Burnett. IJJ. Associate Editors; Frank Walker and Llout. Inn A. Burnett. R.C.N.V.R. tOn Active Service)

‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker The! the Weakest Ink.”

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Board Shows Its partisanship

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The \\'artime Information Board, it is an- iiotmced from Ottawa, has distributed 87,000 copies of .\lr. King's .\'iiv. S speech on the re- ‘tiforcetiietit sittiation.

.\ hoard tifficitil told The Canadian Press die speech was “non-tiolitical," and so it was ilistriliuteil. Yet it must ltavc been obvious to all who hirard it on a national radio network lllltt it iras political front beginning to end, in :lie ll(ll'l‘\)\\'('.~l sense of the word. That it wars not "fztettiztl" is shown by tlte atiswer released by .\lr. ltalston a few days later, and by the toriner lleienst- .\linistei"s subsequent speech i the llo11~e of Coiiiintms.

llir- |i1"11ciplt* itivplvetl in the \\11rlime In- foflllttiloll lioard .-end§iig out tho-e speeches 1s importzuit ln-cttuw the board was set 'tip t0 in- form the people of (‘tuiada on the war effort, not to d» the pnlitieity‘ work of a political

- ' or_ pup. \ publicity organization which is pttfd 1 r by all the people has no right to use the set ~ to grind a party axe.

s asks this pertinent question:

' .imt~ lnformatioti Board now

l\':i‘~1ii-i's an-iver to llr. King's . \\ill it send ntit 87.000 copies? \\'ill i: .\lr. ltal-toirs rcvelzttitiii that the I'r.'mt- 111'.- ’lll\‘.~'(‘lll('tl thn former l‘:::..: . , on lit "trade assncia- tii-zis. ]-.. inliliv bodies and schools which \\'liL‘ u that type of material" as var.- (lone t] r [Jugs partisan speech?

.\lll t" not. it'll‘ not?

sen-l out rztdi-i -'

Mo)’ Oct Stuns-titled“ Sentence

It is hut‘. cufflnit that the King (iovern-

ntcut ma get a i. 31- of qiezideil SclllCllCC. on

n < . ‘in call it a vote of “con-

.t iiisii<iiiieix Certainly it

' '\!l|l1lt'll‘..‘C in .\Ir. lsing.

: of the Prune Min-

ozposed, and this, not by

inpiions by a parti-

cnll hard facts present-

e lloiise by the former

Tiatii-zial Defense, and re-

m .1 permanent record that

i llinistcr since Con-

"-l such an indignity.

, may well tlccide that in

ct-s. and having regard to

the desperate ticed of zeiitforccnlcnts without

more tlelziy, the only cntirsc left now is to stif-

fer the King tirirerimicut in office and bend it,

a» far as pt-“ilile, to the will of the cotiiitry.

That l\ uhat Col. ltzilsttin stated liis position would hc.

Uut what of Mi". King himself, and his party followers? Here is their position, as summed up by the 011111-111 Journal:

“Not here the |1lCllll'L:~-1)f~8—fGétlllllfl-"Pfillle llliiiistci" sttrveying the field with the wisdom and experience of the veteran commander, and from the tllfllfblllllll of his forces atid the lie of the land lllllblllg stire of the rout of his cite- inivs. \\'hat we >L‘(‘ instead is the spectacle of a leader conipelletl to :tccept the will of his op- ponent-, foreeil to suffer ptiblic itidictniciit by the nnin nlni ilirotigh four years of war was |.is principal tit-fence minister. and in the cud tolerated in ofii-ce not by a parliamentary‘ vote of coiifirlt-iiee, lint by a parliatuentary verdict of Sllrlwlltltll .~('lllt‘ll\"<‘.

".\l;'. liinq might hayr- ltad behind him t0- till)‘ the clllllllllltal trust of the best elements i11 this (‘I>llllll'_\'. of 1h: best elements in all our prov- i1tt~.n~: bt-liiiiil ltlltl is bu: a humiliated, broken and di~;1it1i";i_1;.~d p:n't_r---one torn by strife and $€lll>lll and atvttitiiig only death-sentence liy an iaipeuvlizig e ctioii."

Casuaillies-Ihen Now

san ltpj. ed fr~~ " Liberal

Cflrtltsii ‘i.

llcavy" as were the casualties suffered by the Canadian army in Attgust and September, they" do not compare with those inflicted upon ‘Tie ltuiadiznis during the bloodiest battles tvf the lfir~t \‘.'orld \\'ar. During August and September, actviritiug to the latest release, army casualties were 17.733. This, of course, will include figures for Italy as well as the West- ern Front. lii the historic struggle for Passchen- daelc ridge in late October and early November, 1917, the Canadian Corps lost 16,404 men in gaining two square miles.

The Canadians were at Ypres in the spring of 1915 when the (ieriiiaiis lattnched their first gas attack. and in that period we lost 6,104. I11 the .\'i>ninit- campaiggn of that fall it cost the Canadians 2.1.021) men to gain 4,000 yards on a front of less than two miles.

At Viiny hidgr. in‘ .\pril, 1917, we lost a total of 13.477. In .\1tgnst, 1918, we broke through at .\mieiis and stiffcrctl 11,725 iu killed, wounded and prisoners.

In the grctit battle at Cambrai, from Sep- tember 27 to tietnber 1, lliiS, Canadians lost 13,171,: men. l‘i<'ll'll(‘l' in the month at Dro- couit-Qtirant, it cost the Camadian Corps 7,218 men in two days to smash through the [linden- burg line.

Gloomy Taxation Prospect

A l'("tl‘i:ill‘ ~1nily of post-war financial needs hdicates clearly that there is little prospect of ny appi-eekilih- l'('ll!‘t‘llf\ll in taxation until early 11 the 1050's Itffilllllllfl to .\lr. ll. Ci. Cochrane, 'll "ie lllLflllilPl‘ i-liai of Cntindiuii Rtlsflltifl‘. 5.. e shifting of rerlttitl taxes, however, may

be feasible, the author believes.

“It would be possible, of course, to es- cape temporarily the full burden of taxation necessary for balancing budgets by increasing the national debt at a rapid rate throughout the post-ivar years. But even after allowing for a reasonable extension of borrowing until 1950- 51, anticipated government expenditures indi- cate only tlie elimination of the excess profits tax and minor changes in other taxation," Mr. COClITEllQ continues.

The writer stresses the need for overall study of the Canadian tax structure and sug- gests that businessmen should now be taking a positive interest in the taxation trend.

Predicting a peculiarly Canadian type of “New Deal" as extremely likely after the war. Mr. Cochrarie says the Canadian version will not be the "old-fashioned American type of New Deal of the thirties. . . It will he a recogni- tion of the possibility of dampening booms and cushioning depressions by contraction and ex- pansion of the Government's fiscal policy."

In a. detailed chart accompanying the article the author forecasts Canada's annual cash re- quirements in tllc period from 1945 to 1951-52.

EDI IURIAL NUI t)

Honours continue to be won by Islanders for "deeds of derriiig-tlo." ' I § I I .\'t1\v_\ve have a well-organized ]tinior Clia1ii- ber of Commerce, preparations will no doubt be niade for post-oar activities by sea, land and air. "there is a lot to do to stir-up the powers- that-be to the furtherance of otir commercial and other interests as a province and city. Ill ll‘ ll‘ it

The first UNRRA training course to be llrlll 111 ljtrltaln for people who are to help with the repatriation of tlisplzicetl persons in Iiurope has openedat Reading. TlICFC are 45 meni- bers in residence, drawn from a number of Allied countries. Some have been in Iiurope tluriiig the war.

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The loss of 2,078 lives by enemy ziction in ll"? '~‘°lll'5e Of 10,000,000 movements of British Army personnel by sea tip to the end of Sep- tember represents only .0028 per cent of the total. This IiClllEVEtilfllt was due not only to the safeguards maintained by the Royal Xavy 811d the R-Alfa but to good planning work carried out by “Q" movements at the War Of- fice.

u =1- :- m I Opinion in usually well-informed political circles in Quebec City is that events at Ottawa are shaping ‘themselves into a pattern which will mean adoption of the Mackenzie King motion of confidence by a majority’ of approximately 4o. Success in the effort to form a French- Canadian brigade will mean that the process of implementing the order-in-cotiiicil to send 16,000 uraftecs overseas will be very slow, and might even be considered tiniiecessary should lllc e.‘- fort to form the brigade be successful. a m - a

Pea sottp does the trick. Mr. Albert E. Cliffe, Montreal, chemical coiisultatit and vita- niiii authority, states that pca soup may pro- vidc the scientific explanation of the large birth rate among ‘French Canadians. "The percentage of sterility among French Canadian women is the lowest in the world." He explains that garden peas are the richest source of vita- llllll l1. and that cooking in the preparation of pea sotip does- not tlestroy-rhe vitamin which is necessary to health of reproductive organs.

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Canada may expect an inflow of American totirists immediately after the war, for there will iii all likelihood l.)(3 no governmental restrictions on such traffic by the United States as tlicre was after the last war. Such is the information which IIon. Paul Beatilieti, Quebec Minister of 'I'rade and Commerce. brought back to his col- leagues after representing the Province of Quebec at Victoria, B. (I, at a convention of the Can- adian Association of Tourist and Publicity Bureaus and the International Evergreen Play- ground Association. the latter an organization mainly from the State of “Iashingtoii. TllCfC was also present a retirescntative from \\'ash- iiigton, D.C.

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Jefferson Davis, American statesman, died this date, 1389; COllllilflll(l€(l the Rlissipjii regi- ment in the Mexican \\"ar of 1845; elected mem- ber of U. S. Senate in 1847, becoming Secre- tary for \Var in 1853; made President of the Southern Confederacy in 1861; offered to ab- olish slavery in return for the recognition of the (Qo11fetlcrticy' by Britain and France; was taken prisoner in 1865; released two years lat- er: "If I could take one iviiig and Lee the other, I think we could between us wrest vie- tory from lllCSQ pepple" (Northern States).

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Report on inspected slaughterings of live- stock for October shows a sharp increase over a year ago in respect of cattle, a substantial gain in calves, but slight decreases in the number of hogs and sheep. \Vith all provinces slio\v- iiig increases in cattle-the widest gain being in Manitoba where the total was tip some 15,000 ltead-the Dominion total last month attained 132,843 head, or 35.9 per cent more than the year ago comparison of 97,729 head. Ontario had s total of 30,153 compared with 29,833, Quebec and the Maritimes 21,375 against 13,086, Mani- tolia 41,481 compared with 26,122, Saskatche- wan 11,864 against 6,820, Alberta 19,612 com- pared with 14,043. and British Columbia 8,358 against 7,825. Calf slaughterings in Canada last month totalled 51,921 head compared with 44,- 013, an increase of 17.9 per cent, with Quebec and the blarititnes producing the largest quan- tity as well as showing the widest gain. Ilng slaughterings dropped from 6.14.668 head a year ago to 609,072 in October. this year, a decrease of 5.5 per cent with declines being shown in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, Quebec and the Miiritimes had the widest gain, although total slattgliterings were less than the

totals for Ontario atid for Alberta.

Tl-IE- IIHARIJYITDTUWN GUARDIAN

Notes By The Way

Women use h ii ti k I year to Pillllflgfigflllfll: tint 18 B 11ml way to paint l burn.- (Brandon Sun.)

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Gourmet: luve noted. o! course, that invasion o! Norway by the United Nations brings the import. glansirrdine closer.-—tToronto Tele-

0118 Japanese has compounded a

0r himself of roten wood. w? 1111581110 the termites will re- sent tliatfl-(Shratford Beacon- Herald.

M1160» reports um. the Wellh- er durln last week was the most changesbe on record. If it's that b"- ll l5 111st possible that the weatherman has been 811d his 10b taken over man.— (Ottawa citizen.)

l" llrlllcllllll excessively long Players and sermons, a Toronto mllll-ilfl‘ 5119s that five minutes ls l°lltZ 611011811 (or any prayer. finest and most memorable pray- ers ln the English language come well wlthln that ltmlL-(Montreal Gazette.)

MBYbe some o: those btg build- ings being vacated in Ottawa by the Air Force could be converted Into dwellings for those Wilt) m1: suitable accommodation, or into hotels to meet. the needs of trans- ients. But. more likely than not, they witi only be filled with ciyll servants belonging to some time; (l e p a rt m e n t. of government.- (Brockvllle Recorder and Times.)

What the United Nations could stand would be a tilt more F‘i'enel1 co-operation and a blt lessof those goofy Paris fashions. Judging by the eccentric output from the stri- itay capital, the creators of “ce - tions" for mllady are eltltei- m1- aware that the war is not yet over, or else fail to realize that people elsewhere are still busy fighting it. tBrantford livpositor.

llillllc. an everyday house cal. owned by Mrs. Roland Grant, of Slnflhc. N J..l1as been trained to protect birds-null she's a good “pollcemarf. Dogs and cuts or the tielghboitiood dare not enter Millie's spacious back yard when the birds are feeding. She has taught them a lesson. Frequently Mrs. Grant's canarles eat out of the same bowl with Millie and she never raises a whisker ln protest. -—(Capper‘s Farmer.)

The British Council ls working on plans to restock Europe's lllJ- raries after the war. A committee will be appointed as soon as pos- slble after hostilities cease to bring the war-damaged libraries of Eur- ope up to something approaching their full strength. The litter-Al- lled Book C"nt.re already has re- ceived promises for a million and a half volumes. It is impossible as 3'01. to sav how these books will be allocated or what proportion will remain to help the blitzed British libraries. Books on tech- nical subifeets are pctrtlclulnrly cle- sired as the coverage of these sub- jects ls less thorough than the tn- terest tn ll19fll.-—-(Vtll‘lC0liV0l‘ Prov- lace.)

It was a lamb stew we had for dinner, full of interesting things. It had slices of new turnip, and some new onions. some small po- tatoes cooked wliole. carrot sliced the long way, and I noticed some or the new crop of Jacob's cattle, beans, snys John Gould in ‘The Christian Science Monitor. It and‘ lamb ln it, of course, and an amp- litude of juice. Juice really makes the stew. Some people seem to favor a wet stew, suggesting a few trinkets hud been soaked 111 the rain barrel. while others favor u bolled-dovm bog of glutinous LOH- centratlon too thick ior a spoon but too thin for a fork. My idea is to have both body and wash 1n one suitably concocted melange, encli imparting goodness to each, and both together supporting the Joint resolution with incontrovert- ible enthusiasm.

An ardent naturalist recently filled his short leave in Palestine by paying a visit to the Cedars of Lebanon and wrote home to say that the with psalm ls quite right: the birds do make their nest there. ‘Ilie whole place was noisy with the twittering of Cltrll Flii- ches. which seemed to be the orig- inal birds that sing among the branches. Other birds he s11“! nearby were cuafflnches. goldfin- ches. meadow buntlngs and areal tits; and when cultivation ceased bluck-throutecl wheaters and that splendid bird. the bluerock thrush. He saw. too, the stone-chub, which the Italians culled by the 111111111‘: able descriptive mime saltlmptno oi "jump-on-to-a-pcst." About 300 cedars. some very large. 1811111111- grouped tn the bottom of a 11W“ bowl ln the high red hills. it. may interest students of birds to know that active migration was observed at 7.000 feet. "Swallows and bee- eaters were passing contlnuottsiy llllld one house martin. We saw a willow-Wren at 7,0001 and at 7.090 n (lock of about twenty blue-head- ed wagtalls feeding among a flock of goats, catching the insects ~h11t the animals kick u from the grsssF-(liondon SD81! $01")

What would have been thought of i; man tn Turke who £00k I'll! m; wife with s ha ter round her neck and sold her to the lll he!‘ bidder in the reign of Abdul am- ld. a contemporary of Queen Vic- toria, may be imagined. lie would have floated down the Bospllllrll! tied ln a sack! Yet. ln the first m]! of Queen Victoria's reign l5 wives were sold by auction in mur- kets by their husbands for B11111! ranging from ls to £15 (the hlflll- est on iecord), and these disgrace- ful spectacles seem to hlWe been regarded mainly with amusement, gays The London Lender. The last meat-dad wife sale ln this counary occurred at. Aylesford. near Mald- stone, when a farmer sold his Nile for 2s 6d ln 1852. A farmer named Thompson auctioned his wife at Carllsle for 20s and adog. The women of that. period must: have been strangely litdlfferent to the rights 0t their sex. hat an 11P- roar there would be today amongst the women of this country lf wife were put; up to auction by her husband.

--..-___-» - PROBE APPRENTICE SYSTEM

eoeirimlttee ln Antigua ls reviewing

prentlceslilp system to the l-ltmd. The committee, is going lnto the whole qulstlon of training young

It is announced that the ingenl- l“

' runuc roauu ' .-;"..--.é“'-‘: -'-'~='-“--'-'~E

the following from w. McDonald letter: “There are many iiinellnh iiuards which liiiwe bitch a wide ‘range of meaning that. Latin might

useful to flnd the true meaning; e.g (education from edueere — w draw out not to-cram in)!’

New. mo)’ I suggest that. our Ilflellsh word Educate ls directly derived from thg Latin Eductu-e -— to b11118 up a child mentally cr Physically, fici educate - rather than frcm the Latin Educei-e, to draw out. It is true that the latter word ls used figuratively in the sense 0f "Edllflfll-B". but. the direct deriva- tion of Educate is from Educure.

I 11m. Sir, etc. M.

OYSTER. LEASING luonrs

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Qvilt GIFTS n, m‘

none-r nus out: rvnex wan:

COUNTER I

Slr.-—It was with much dismay that 1 read some time n30 a latter by Mr. Leo Praught, also one by Mrs. Praugltt. in your edition of Dec- 4111- Alld 1' do heartily coin- mcntt you. Sir, for publishing their letters, because lt. does appear that‘ another grave injustice has been done the common Deo le (Mr. and Mrs. Praughi being t e unfortun- nte symliolst, so by your making lt possible for them to present. the facts you have once agttln per-

DOWN-DUTY (Msllloli Two smut gilt: In one. Practical too, the com keep: food warm or serves as sepmt ple plate. Foods lake lum in Pyrex were — and taste better!

64 oz. sin — only

formed fi great public service. This case is just one more ex- ample at‘ the short time justice would prevail without a free press and lio\v regrettable ll; is that free men do not. fully appreciate such a press ivliile they still have lt. _ Now from the above mentioned letters it appears tlint productive oyster areas haste been closed to tlie general public. ln order to lease these areas to favoured in- dividuals or companies. If this .15- sumptloii ts correct. then the pub- llo i; very mucli indebted to Mr.

PYRIX Ullll" DISII A gift she'll use a dozen ways. Cooks small roasts, lioi: breads. ro||s,biscuits, and dossortsddosl For candy and brownies. Th!

liandiest dish in the kitchen. lOl/a in. size

and Mrs. Praugtit for bringing ‘he

facts to the attention of the larg- est p -lble number of citizens.

Cerainly the policy of leasing areas for oyster culture ls logical, but only when such areas are non- prodiictive, because if the leasee ls to be the sole benefactor he must bear the entire cost. of establishing the tii-oditct.

Therefore the public must. rally to Mr. Prauglifs defence or 10r- reit by default its rights imd ins- tice. otherwise it will be a mack-

PYREX CAKE DISH

Notice the convenient glass lun- dlesl Bakes perfect layer cakes o1 doubles lcr meats, vegetables and other baking. Washes easily.

A pair makes a lovely gilt. Each . . . . only

cry for men to be sacrlflclnz £11911‘

lives on battlefields all over the world to preserve freedom and jus- tlce, if we forfeit these blrthrlghts by default at home. I am, Sir, etc., "ctriznu". MR. BRAGKEN TAXATION Slr,—-I would like to express one reader's appreciation of The Guar- dian's service in giving that ccm- plete text of a recent address by

PYRIX PIE Pill’!

Just think liow proud she'll be 0F her pies in this smart trans- parent Pyrex Pie PletmSliecen watch crusts come to a crisp,

§li§'.".'i‘;"."1‘.’,'.”.‘."f'1 37¢

Hon. John Brackeirentltlecl "Tax- ation of Co-operatives and Cor- partitions.“

distributed to tfie individuals to whom they are due" strikes tins render as very logical, as to its sequence at any rate. My own

BT. JOHN. B.W.I. —(CP) — A15;

view ls that lt ls only at this lat- ter paint that. by any stretch of the taxing mechanism, such "co- operative savings“ can possibly

the other hand. lt cannot be cle-

operattve “suvtiigs" refund.

shareholder. Then there ls this third corner

cause of its

rural homes are ln m3’ "¢ll55"- I suggest, with due respect to the

and mine-whether they decide of

I am, Slr, etc. SphagriuwmmScoflllfl-andk Healing Moss

Healln moss. which. the women of Sco and have gathered for hundreds of years to staunch the battle wounds of their menfolk, is being picked once again ln the marshy hollows of Highland and Lowland hills. Phyllis Lovell writes ln the Saint. John Tele mph-Jour- nal. In early times. thl balm was reserved for Scots warriors ln their clan battles and campaigns a- gainst England. Today, the search for the moss ls being undertaken by women and children ln a-llpnrts of Scotland so that British and Allied troops 11nd those wounded by flying-bombs ln Southern Eng- land 11nd London may share the benefits.