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as a matter of fact, we actully consumed lllore meat under rationing than under the free market? ' , '

Also, what is the meaning of all tllese poorly- veiled hints that we must return to meat ration- ing, if we do return, as a sop to prejudiced clamor in the United States, where other poli- ticians, with other axes to grind, are busy with the propaganda of diverting responsibility for tlle failure of their own rationing system? _

It is tilile we had clone with eleetioneerillg politics about rations. If it is necessary for Canadians to eat less meat, in order to help feed starving Europe, or to help ulailltain the very short nleat commons of Britain, or even to sweeten the entente cordiale with an embarras- sed Washington —— let us know about it, out- right and downright, with no more furtive side- long glances at June Ir.

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for Agricubure KING'S DDIIIITY

. (1 ti Candidate and other speakers wish h ma: iflfffffvyinmgniirkinii at Public Meetings which have been nuanged u listed below, when "Id Party’! lwiicy 1nd nrolznntsnd nil public matters in Issue In the present Election will be iiiiviimii- A" meetings commence at 8:30 P-Iil-

, GARETS - Wednesday May 16th. st. Mdnznrei‘: Hell- giii. liidiiulnnA-rllmdsy. May inn, st. Coinmba Hall. KINGSBORO-Fridly. May 18th. KIIIMN "ii"- h clllumv HILL - Sathrdly. Ml! lith- viwm iiili 5v ML s51‘. TERESA - Monday. May 8M. is ‘him lhil-

ST. CHARLES — Tuesday. May 22nd, Si. Charles Hsli. MORELL - Wednesday, May zsrrl. Morel! Bail- ANNANDALE - Thursday. May Zlth, Annandale Hall. BRIDGETOWN — Friday,_Msy 25th, Bridgetown Hall. 4 ST. GEORGES - Saturday, Miy 26th, St. Georges Hail. l. 8T PETERS - Monday, May 28th, Holy Name Hail. 50113.13 - Tuesday. May 29th, Yeos Hall. GEORGETOWN — Wednesday, May 30th, Georgetown Hall. MURRAY HARBOR - Thursday, May 31st, Murray Harbor Hall. g HEATHERDALE - Friday, June 1st, Heatherdnle Hall. ' STURGEON — Saturday. June 2nd, Sturgeon Hall. MURRAY HARBOR NORTH — Monday, June 4th, Murray Harbor

, -__._ i There will be ‘of the Progresslveacxz" [live electom oi South Poll in the Sollthport, sci’: ‘on ‘Thursday the 17th of May next at 8:30 RM r.s.nEEvns ' ‘ Chalrmayh 5-15-3

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mgta?tldt of usmprofltogldby our es prospe y wo _ when}? us-Quebec Chronicle-Ibiz- RYE/P -

B now the German people t be iibout convinced that a "Hgd peace" couldn't be half as hard as war at. home. - Edmonton

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(Ste 0. Inston in Toronto Saturday Night) III

In my last article (April 31) I spoke of the need for community efforts to save the laud itself from progressive deterioration and ultimllste destruction. In .

A Boots for Britain Fund in Canada ls reported as doing well, We are glad to hear it, for their footwear must be pretty well worn out booting the Nazis back totllelr lairl-Pliamllton Spectator.

looked upon

ible. There is think, at acres are ruined there will always be more. If one field becomes sterile, there are others to take its place. Modern machinery has

War Enters New Phase

Election (if two men from agri- culture dlrectorates of wo Canadian nks brought an edl. gorlal geadlvlvnkf: farmers

mwurc er“ t e ottaw“ made it possible to cultivate more gglltgzlalheflgfimilfllfllgggz, ilfrfifsslfin: land at a com arativeiy low cost ouredfi-Brantford Expositor. 15:, “'9' and t ‘emu wvmu’

farm 200 acres with s Uncle Sam taxes cigarettes $3.50

per thousand: Uncle Ilsley taxes l; we Ob,§,‘,‘,‘ed“flo‘,§f,§§,,g ‘algal 133 ygfimluilélogegfruljlzéfisagldxhlggpgggf acres. But there comes a time hension the price of cigarettes has when the yield becomes m0 not risen lll: all-only the tax. But you can still get; cigarettes in Can-

liistoryl records llo llligbticl‘ events than those which bzlve featured tlle \\‘Zll' wltll ber- lllZll1_\‘, .\1l(l ir was Wlillill tlle past year that the high drallla of that conflict reached its peak. 'l'llere was the tellsellcss that preceded D- Day, then llll‘ storming of tlle Normandy caches, tllc libvrzllloll ut l‘l'ZillCC, tllc crossing of tlle Rhine. llllil lllt‘ >L‘l‘lt'5 of disasters that preceded (icrlllullfs collapse. And on tlle

If the weather gets dry, farmers will be full time alld lllore now on the planting. I ggyyudlsetclzyllénclll Mixture n s . - ne _ _

T * "' ' 5H3‘!!! relief frurnflnlilsili-lii-li,

~ tlle \\’. I’. T. 11., in crcllitcd with saying that

I fore it wont to illc Ciillllll'_\'.

ing" politics that there lllls lrcrll about ibis rec-

lfaslerll Front lllosc great deeds were duplicat- ed.

Obviously", it will not be :1 sllllpl: lllntlcr f0 turll from zlll llli-, llllll give lilC wur with Jzlpzlll ti" 53mg sgpt illlCl'(‘rl that a crulllbliug Ger- lllallv ClZllIllCil. lilll it is :1 reorientation that ulust be lllzllle. .-\ landing ull tlle Japanese liuillt- lslfllHl-i llow must clzlilll lllC ullrlivided attention that lllilfiiCll the invasion of Western liurope. It will not be easier, Lilltl it llligbt well he more difficult and costlv. Uut until it is achicvcdpand carried to a successful conclusion, there can be no return to a normal way of living.

\\'e are, ill fact, sugjqvsls tlle l!'l'lll1.v0l' Star, entering a new pllzlsc of the \\'lll', and one to which we have yet to become conditioned. The months or years ZlllClIll will be quite unlike ally we have known. 'l‘h<‘_v will luring some ClIZIIIQCS fur the IJQIZCI‘, zllld others for the worse which cannot be clearly foreseen.

There will be the expected cutback of 30 or 35 per cellt in war production, and this will have the effect of illcreasilg the supply of some consumer goods. But, as the same time greater shortages than we have known so far are like- ly to develop in other lines.

We have been given a hint of this in re- duced sugar rations. Still more significant will be the demands on our basic food sup- plies Onlv now are Allied authorities be- ginning to get a good idea of the enormity of the problem of feeding stricken Europe. We need not doubt that relief of that condition will" call for further sacrifices from us.

lbleanlvhile, there will he no appreciable re- duction in the costs of war. and consequently no prospect of tax relief. This, however, should not provide cause for grumbling‘. .\loue_v will be needed to push the war against Japan, and more large sums must be spent to provide gratu- ities alld re-establishment grants for those of our servicemen who will be returning to civ- ilian life, now and later. No one with a sense of values will say economy should be practiced at their expense. 'I'bey have proverl them- selves deserving of all we can give them.

The time has come, however, for us to train our sights on new targets. The recon- quest of Malaya has heconle as important as the war in the “T510111 Desert was formerly: recapture of the Dutch Fast indies rates with the liberation of France allll the Low Coun- tries; effective aid for the Chinese is as vital as the huttressillg of the Red .\rlll_v: and inva- sion of Irlprlll is as luucll all nbjcvti\'e as was the invasion of liCTlllZlilV.

\\'e are ill .1 new null trying phase of tlle war. and it demands the best that is in us, spiritually and nlatcrinllv.

Appalling Evidence

Perhaps the grilllulest (liiClllliCili yet to come out of tlle war, a ,I_';-\'oll:lllc report of thousands 0f (icrlllzlll zltrocilics in l-"rzlllcc, was nlatlc pub- lic Thursday after tlle surrender by the psycho- logical warfare section of Supreme Allied Headquarters. Far more than just all echo of recent brutality (lisclosurtrs from (icrnlalrv, this report is (".'L‘ll lll1)l'(‘ sigulf tzult cvillellcc of ma<< psycllupcltic (lPl)l‘Il\'ll_\' zllllollg the (lcrlllalls. The report shows lllzlt ill France kicrlllall brutzllilv was not confined against tlle lfrellcllullldcr- ground or cvcll against thousands of hostages wbolll tllc (ierllvuls l\llll‘(l fur ill~(ll'<l(‘l‘S tbcv had llolllillg tu 11'» with. but was practiced ‘Fil- lllost S_\'Si(‘llIZlll\‘Zlll_\' zlgzlills: (‘Illll'(‘l_\‘ illllrlccnt French people. It lllsr» illllivzltcs tbc atrocitii-s yvcre not confined to lll(‘ ii<‘.~l.'ll)O or llle rutll- less (Jerlllall liilfllllflllilll pllbcc but zlrnsc spon- taneously, like a llisl-zl-"c, nlllollg lllclllbers of the ‘Yellrlllnclll.

Elections AIICIjGGI Rations

Tlltlt cullvcllicllt person. .1 ‘Z-pllkc-sllnlll" of

Canada will lllost likely l‘i.‘lll'l'li to tllc rationing of llleat——“hut not until zlfler lbc general elec- tioll on jullc ll. If this is all imliscrctiou of the sp0kcslllzlll's, . the lllllrollrrr Prntvncc, it has all the lllarl. of zl calculated one. It seems t0 say [but of unlit-l.- the government has nlade up its lllind lllzll ll. bzls got to be a return to lllcnt null sujgzll" rzltinlliug, but of course tlle govcrlllllcllt is not yet so crazy that it would (In at thing like lllzlt ll few weeks be-

lf we could all ll\'(‘ on tlle lllcss of “cook-

ent rationing business, we should IICYCT llliss the beef and lllutlou. .-\llll nothing is lnore (lubiolls ill such politics than lllf‘ nletllnll of making irresponsible :lllllol;llc<-lllvllts by way of anonymous rlcpartlllrlltnl officials.

What has llmv becmllc, for ill-lance, nf ail those anonymous S]>0l\'<‘¥l1‘.t'il who lmve repelli-

Sulunlerside has lived up to the expecta- tion of Mr. Ralston in its appreciation of favours received.

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'I‘aking the law into ones own hands is the last thing members ‘of His l\lajesty's forces should do. Or any ‘other one. for that Iiliiilfll‘.

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The C. C. F. candidates are to be colll- lllcllded for their courage, if for nothing else, in entering the Federal election contest at so late a date. _

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The boys will be coming home in llulllbers every week llo\v, and by Christmas the last of them will have seen the end 0f European llostilities—unless retained for the Arnly of Occupation.

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Daniel O'Connell, Irish statesman and orator, died this date 1847; M. P. for Dublin, fought the Coercion Act of 1833; founded the Repeal Association; imprisoned for conspiracy to raise sedition in I844; insisted upon political agitation and opposed nlilitallcy- on which score he broke with the Young Irish Party; revered ill Ireland as The Liberator: "I can drive a coach- and-six through any Act of Parliament."

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All publications, films and business ellfer- prises frolll the United States and other collu- tries will be barred from Germany indefin- itely during military occupation, according to Director Elmer Davis of the United States f- fice of \Var Information. Allied armies of nr- cupation will control all newspapers, other pllb- lications, films and radio enterprises which lift‘ permitted, he’ told a news conference. The pul- icy ls necessary, he asserted, tn maintain orilcr llow and to bring the Clermalls back to “sanity and order." In an earlier interview a reporlgr asked him why Allied officials were “afraid m giving entry to American newspapers." "l think the Germans would get too llluch lliiprlts- slon of divided policies," Mr. Davis rcplibll “For I2 years their papers have expressed of... policy. and they are out of the habit of unrldr- standing what a free press means.”

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\\’idespread reductions in wzlr risk ratbs have been announced by the Canadian Wall Rlsk Collllnittee, representing private nuclei"- wrlters. in line with similar action takell llv New ' result of the German surrender. three weeks since the last general cuts weft: made. Sea lanes nlost affected are, of course, those to Europe but tlle cuts also embrade routes extending as far as the Eastern war thcL atre and the reductiolls range between 50 allfl 7i per cent of the rates which were formerlv iii effect. The new rates bring tlle cost of coveri ace down to a more or less nolnillal basis. largel ly because of the danger of liilliésifllltl strrll‘ submarine activity. but no indication is forth- coming how long it might be deemed llecessarv 1o maintain the rates in the latest schedule.

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‘If the Jones Government insist upon ob- taining full possession of the old Nova Scotizl llllilCl-lllg. where will the Bank of Canada find locatloll? in Montreal the Bank of (fullzlda has announced the purchase of a property oll \_"lclorla Square at the north-cast corller of U313 Nrfifii. 0n which. at a suitable time ill the

It is less than

York underwriters and which is a direct T

future, it is planned to erect a bank building. The present expectation is that the building will bc a two-storey structure with lllodcrn vzltllts and equipment and of a size sufficient to take care of the growth of the bank's operations lll Montreal. The main entrance will be on Vic- toria Square. Since the ballk of Canada coll1- lnenced operations in I935, it has been located in rented premises in Montreal at the corner of Si. James and St. Francois-Xavier streets. While it is not expected that construction will conlmcnce for some time, immediate steps will be taken to prepare tlle plans for the building. I D i I

Vitamin pills are not a panacea for all human ills alld no vitamin preparation can replace all adequate diet ill full restoration and lllailltcllallce of health, Dr. L. B. Pett, I’b.D., I\I.D., of the Department of National Ilealtb and Welfare, Ottawa, says ill an article in tlle current issue of tlle Canadian Medical Association journal. Scoring the “exaggeration of tlle importance of viianlills....carefully kept alive both among lay people and doctors by interested groups," Dr. I'ctt says that tlle only way of providing a fllll vitulaill intake is by lllcalls of an ade- quate diet. Ally use of vitamins ill a concen- trated form without a clcar indication of their need and careful attention to tlle support of all adequate diet is anvabuse, tllexloctor continues, null, in tlle absence of organic disease, he be- lieves that tlle individual who consumes a" diet adequate ill calories and consisting of reasonable

cdly assured us that no lllorc meat rationing “wyuld like?) b: lll>clxssllly ill Czllllltlzl :l.llll tllatl

amounts of lllilk, fruit. grccll vegetables, cereals, lllrat and eggs, dues llUl llced additional vitamllls.

8dll.—-P6b8l‘bOI‘0llgl‘1 Examiner.

Certain It is that no demoracy call survive a citizenry that minds its own business. The enjoyment 0t democratic freedom can come only. from the acceptance of de- mocratic responsibilities. In a de- mocracy tllerc ls no more danger- Oils man than the man who is minding his own business, —Mon- trenl Gazette.

1i members of the “master race" are honest with themselves, many of them today, in the gray dawn of disillusionment, must: have al- ready convinced themselves that they are tlle world's prize “sn-yss" for having believed lll the glory of war and conquest and in wor- shipping such false gods as ty l- {ied by Hltlen-Hnmilton Spec? — or.

The Minister of Education stat- ed, not long ago, that teaching promised to become tlle most nt- tractive of the professions. If Ml‘. Perry can make 1t that, Instead of what it has been in so many cases, a stepping stone to some- thing else, he will have conferred a favor not only on the teachers work. A teacher who expects to spend his life teaching has. nec- essarily, a different outlook on his profession and its problems than a teacher who expects to be dc- ing something else, next. year. ~ Vancouver Province.

H.M. Destroyer Anthony has steamed 24D.(I\l miles since the beginning of the war. Her war record includes Atlantic convoys, Dunkerque,‘ Spltbbergen, Malta, Madagascar, Sicily and South France, tllc Ottawa Citizen ports. This ship ls 15 years old out recent tests have shown that she is at present only two knots slower than at her commission- ing lll 1929; and after completing one busy month in the Mediterran- ean with a total of 8.000 miles steamed she was still the fastest ship of her flotilla.

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What has to be understood is that Victory in Europe and Can- ada's part in it are the result of no magic-mi economics or of po-

son living tn the area and not themselves alone.’ . When farmers complain it is rarely about their yields. There always some other enemy to blame. Usually it ls prices, over which thgyl have no control; or it may be ortage of help and its poor quality, lack of capital, the weather, or rl plague of insects

North Hall. CARDIGAN - Tuesday, MONTAGUE, Wednesday,

June 5th. Cardigan Hall. June 6th. 1.0.0.1’. Hall.

MURRAY RIVER — Thursday, June 7th, Public Hall. LORNE VALLEY -- Friday, June 8th, Lorna Valley Hall.

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PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE, FOR KINGS.

or plant disease. Yet It is an es- tab tshed fact. that except in the very worst. years of a depression there are always some formers In every area who make n profit. In bad years it may be small, but it is still a profit.

Other farmers simply ’csnnot make ends meet. There are a few who are content with a low sinn- dard of living and have no am- bition to improve it. But. they re- mlsln few. Most have at least a vague ambition, but little Idea how to satisfy it. They work too hard doing the some old tlli to be f able to expend any tho t on a. dlvagatfon from the rou ne. They may think they harm no one but themselves and their inunediate families by their conservatism" but In the same way as their ba practices may hurt the whole neighborhood through the deter- ioration of physical conditions, so does their economic bookwardness damage the economic life of the whole community.

It ls clear that. a man who can spend only $200 within the com- munity during a year and yet oc- cupies perhaps 200 acres of Ian is not ulllnf his weight. And he 1s play drectly into the hands of those who would socialize the land and build efficient collec- tive farms thereon. If we wish to have private enterprise on thcI land, as in industry, then we must)

make that private enterprise work or put up with the consequences. We might have greater economic benefits under a collectivfst econ- omy, but we shall undoubtedly have less freedom. In the vim- medlate postwar period we may have the last chance to set our house in order; for it. is certain hat we are not for ever to submit to the existence of poverty in a. world of potential plenty, and that there are owers

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litlcs or of llllytllillg elsc. It re- sults simply from harnessing .llld concentrating tlle forces inherent ln oul' nation. As a nation we are poorer today in ‘men and resources than we were lll 1939. War has shown us what we can do in mobilizing our national might, but it has also 5llOWI1_IlS at what cost lll ffxccdonls. restricted, in burdens carrlrtl, ln cpporllllllt-y closed. But we have now upon us the "vrlr for the things we do wank-free- dom and peace and individual dignity. Those things our men have really been fighting for. hat blggcr. more Important bat- tl: ls yo; to».be won.-l-'irlancial Post.

Let us give three rousing cheers allu a llger lor tlle victorious Cdll- adllill rlnlly. Frclll shops and offices and ssllcols our soldiers llegall tllclr long march lll those distant (luvs ut tlle wlll"s beam- lllllg. nor lually nlontlls tlley stood on tllc coast u.‘ Brltalll as a shield against the expected Gar- mal. in ‘lllere was the ud-

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it)’, uhliliuiaJ ..:l;l with Hi9 form- 14124318 weapons of llloderll udllr... Loo, u-Jfliliifldy, and the Canadians were there storming tlle ueacnes, rlghtl tlle hard, grim Bullies u; , with (hi; .5." = llclull: mafia wcigllt wllilc tlle Al - " ls pi‘ tllc C boulg palli a ,-,,. tvlllcll dogged c.l.y at m: Sic;- fricd Linc. Came Antwerp, and Holland, and tlle 1-111, tough strug- gle across the till: JlLI livers and me wzuorlc d c ulxysioc where tougll llgn _, was; to u: found tnsre were the Canadians. For tlle vicuory illllCil 1115.. week was theirs the Canadian; J taught. with courage, wliil skit! and en- durance WUXLily of the highest traditions of lllls or any country. We salute ollr soldiers with prlne and gratituuo-Cc-talxva Journal.

The difference between the philosophic WIIIZII.‘ guide the every- day conduct of trlc Allied peoples, and tllose clf tlle late Axis coun- tries has been all:.pl_v_ often horrl- bly demonstrated for ilii the world Lo sec and understand. This dif- ference, between decent and lll- dcccnt thinking, llns been direct- ly illustrated for Canadians who have seen ellcmy }Ji‘l50l1Ei‘$'ill this country, or have studied newspzl- - er plums of thelll. There can lie little doubt that P.0.W. gullrus and czllnp ndlninlstration In Call- ndn, have been flrnl but fair. All observations have revealed Ger- man prisoners obviously well-fed, clelln and properly clad, and hu- manely treated with generous pro- vision for recreation and camp activities. The picture presented ls in striking contrast to that of the general appearance of Call- adian, British, American and Rus- slan prisoners of war as they come from German canlps after rescue by thc victorious Allied armies. Not. even durtn the most lean, the most black of he war months did any of the Allied governments er- mtt the slightest departure rom the regulations of the Geneva Con-