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_0ur National Railways

A special feature has been added to this year's Annual Report to Parliament of the Can- adian National Railways. This deals with the work performed by the System since -the be- ginning of hostilities. The facts are arresting and timely.

During the five years and four months of war, from its beginning to December 31. 1944i the Canadian National Railway System carried more than 433 million tons of freight. More than L32 million passengers were transported —greater than ten times the entire population of Canada. More than four million troops handled, requiring 6,540 special trains. Special trains for war llldlblYV workers carried 37 million PMS‘ engcrs. Canadian National dining cars served zui average of nearly 11,000 meals a day, a total qt‘ more than 21 million. .\lore than three million guests were accommodated by the Coin- pan-vrs it'd-ye homli [fynvglrrlg of l4 lllilliOll hotel meals were served. Purchases made by the Railway amounted to considerably more than $5oo.ooo,ooo. With an average Staff 0f 97.065. the System paid out $967,500,000 in wages dur- ing the war period. Twenty thousand men and women of the System enlisted with the armed forces; 5oz lost their lives; more than 100 were decorated for gallantrv.

.\ll of which tends to confirm the declara- tion nf Ilrinie Nlinister \\"inston Churchill: The transportation of the fighting forces, together with the transportation of munitions of war and supplies has constituted the major problfnl of the United Nations.

A Word For The Empire

Col. Hamilton Gault, a gallant figure of the First \\'orld \Var in which he commanded that famous regiment, the Princess Patricizfs Cana- dian LlQlll Infantry, has a letter iii the Nloiitrezil (Jasetrc from which we quote this:

“Is it not time that we stopped all petty bickerings and spoke rather‘ of our duties and responsibilities than of our rights and privileges.

"I5 it not time that our parochialisiii came to an end and that the hatchet of sectional autaL" onisms, both Canadian and Imperial, should be buried by proclaiming in no uncertain voice that our country's destiny lies four square within the solid framework of the British Empire which has not only given the free freedoms of lan- guage, religion and la\v to Prench Canada and liberty to the millions seeking her protection, but, at one vital period of this \var, stood alone to preserve the world from tyranny and des- potism.

“There i5 an old adage, ‘Together we stand, divided we fall.’ Let it not be_ said that "we can- not stand together in the coming peace.

More Than 4,000 Deserlers

It is a bit shocking to be told officially that of 7,060 Home Defence troops who absented themselves without lczive when warned for over- seas service more than 4,000 are still at large-- deserters.

Such a circumstance, says the Offmm Jour- nal. calls for more than denunciation or hate of thcsc young incu, and certainly for more than the smug statcmicutthat “they are mostly from Quebec." Perhaps its real demand on us is

‘that we try to examine our conscience, to ask (iurselvcs what is wrong with a State which finds thousands of its young men refusing to serve it when service is so terribly iuiport:iiit—-— to ask ourselves what such a deficiency must tell of failure in the education of our citizen- ship. or of error or weakness somewhere in the methods we have been using to build a united nation?

Five Years Ago

lt is fivc year.» ago since the invasitm of Nor- way by the litrrmaiis. To thc Norwegians. comments an exchange, it must seem like 55 years.

Norway had never been at war with Ger- many, had never had any serious disputes with (Jcrniairv. Indeed, Norway had no desire for territorial expansion in any direction. She was the ideal nation among natious-pcace-loving, hard-ivorking, a land of freedom and good- will.

lnto such a nation swept the Germans on the night of April i).- 1940. Against the might and planned cunning of the German war ma- chine Norivay"s tiny forces had no chance. Ger- manv knew Xorivay had no chance. The story of (ierinan invasion is always like that-the in- vincible Hun chose always to be invincible against someone u-lio could not test the point.

Even so, the hardy Norwegian people held out until June 7, 1940. before formally giving tip the fight. \’\'e say "formally", however, for the record of Free Norway in this long war has been one of distinction. June] merely sent the Norwegian fighting machine under ground.

Today Canada joins with the people of Nor- way in their grim memories and their-stead- fast faith. Norway's day is coming. ‘

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Radar In The Open

Radar, or radiolocation is no longer a deep military secret. "Hits/nus: Wcrk" reports that the British censorship was lifted when its prin-

ciple was explained, with diagrams, re-printed in the U. S. in Broadcasting Magazine. Radar, as described in the- article, works like this: Pulses of radio waves are emitted from a trans- mitter at regular intervals. These pulses strike a taiget such as a moving plane. From the plane they are reflected back to a receiver. The distance of the target, against which anti-air- craft guns or other planes may be directed, is determined by measuring the time of travel’ of the pulses along the outgoing and incoming paths. i‘

It is also revealed that radar is effective to at least 35 miles and can be used to observe both stationary and moving targets. Again: “. . . once the target is, spotted, a picture or graph appears on a cathode ray tube by which eleva- tion ur distance can be determined. Even the size of the object under observation can be measured to some extent."

Biqinm; Week makes this comment: "Since television utilizes the cathode ray tube and ra- dar has accelerated the art of using radio waves for location and direction, broadcasters are look- ing to this method of pulse modulation to help solve many of radio's present-day ills—priti- cipally interference.”

This is an exceedingly technical subject. The layman ventures to discuss it because it is full of suggestion for the future. It is another great indication that the seemingly finite human mind has infinite possibilities. Therein this paradox: the more secrets are explored and revealed, the more other secrets present themselves for ex- ploration.

-EDITORIAL NOTES-

After today we will be without both our local and Federal legislatures.

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Seemingly there are bootleg certified-potato gwwers as well as liquor producers, as three convictions in Magistrate Tweedys Court last wee-k testified. ’

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquart- ers at Ottawa announce the wartime order making a permit necessary‘ for the possession of a rifle or a shotgun has been rescinded. How- ever, a permit still will be necessary for pos-

seas, such as automatic rifles. machine-guns or sub machine-guns. =01 m

- According to Mr. Douglas Abbott, assistant Defence Minister, boys of 18 who leave scliool,as well as those who remain there are liable for military training. He gave this illustration: “john Jones, an office worker who is just over i8 ilocsift have to enlist in a Reserve unit unless he wants to and now his chum, Bill Robinson. the high school student of the same age, is in the same classification. When they both turn 18 1-2 they are subject to military call-tip but if Robinson is (leferred because he is a student he can be called on by the military district officer commanding to join a part-time military outfit such as the Reserve Army."

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A poll of youth opinion made for the Cana- dian Youth Association reveals that, apart from Quebec Province, regular weekly attendance at cliurcli by young Canadians between 15-24 cle- elines steadily from east to west-from 63 per ccnt in the Maritimes, 49 per cent in Ontario to 34 per cent in the Prairie Provinces and Brit- isli Columbia. The poll showed that larger numbers of young people in such cities as Mont- real. Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver say they do not go to church than do young people in smaller communities. Eighty-eight per cent of young people in Quebec and 89 per cent of all young Roman Catholics in Canada say they go to church every Sunday. Only 38 per cent of young Protestants make this claim.

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Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador to U. S. A., born this date, 1881; one of the out- standing statesmen iii the British Empire; edu- catcd at liton and Oxford, he fought in France with the Yorkshire Dragoons, of which he was LieuL-Col. from 1915 to i917; was assistant Minister of National Service 1917-18; held various portfolios till created a baron in 1925 and appointed Viceroy of India which office he held Wllll distinction till 1931; made Chan- cellor of Oxford University in 1933, Secretary of State and President of the ‘Council in I935; and appointed Ambassador in 1941; holds strong religious convictions, and when he arrived at tfzilcntizr as Ambassador, declined to land on Good Friday, necessitating the postponement of the official reception and popular demonstration until the following day; a confirmed imperialist, has used his voice and pen to cement common- wealth solidarity; he is sixty-three years of age. happily married, his heir being his son, Lieut.- Col. thc llon. Charles Iugraham Courtney \Vood, Baron Irwin, of the Yorkshire Dragoons.

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Coniiiioiiivealth Air Training Plan, sug- gested by the U. K. before the \Var, turned down by Mr. King as an infringement on Cana- dian sovereignty, adopted under the stress of War, has been a brilliant success. Like all our War activities, claims Letter-Review, it was carried out with complete disregard of cost, which is far more forgiveable in this case than in, for example, our munition production, where the results attained could have been had equally well for 6o per cent of the cost actually incur- red. The monetary effect of this drunken sailor sort of spending will he with us for a long time. It necessitated the adoption ‘of Price Control. It caused the absurd effort to use the now abandon- ed Cost of Living Bonus plan. It is the reason for the tremendous difficulties which we now face in getting rid of Price Control, without per- mitting wages to rise to such a point that we cannot keep production going-especially for export. Far more serious. however, is the fact that waste of money has been ivastc of materi-

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Notes By The Way

le h; bu resulted In 00.000 more people becoming dependent on the United Nations for food, and there will be addi- tional millions. American and oth- er Allied servicemen are ilvtnl their utmost-in thousand; of cues their lives-to liberate these peo- glle, as well as protect their own. rel the maiilorlty of thinking lndiv duels ln t e best fed nation ? flag‘ world 1wlll not lipid with an ever a vlnz u e ow more iunee; of meal; or e bit of butter

altering both the rescue work and he pence to follow-Christian Bel- ence Monitor.

A: the Allied ennlee advance into German-v they enter more and more communities the names of which are familiar to Omedlene by reason o their duplication In this country. One o! the latent of these ls the chino! Osnabruck. after which e well- own township ln the county of Stormonl: la nam- ed, not because there la onnectlon between it: and Ger- many, but. because Frederic, Duke of York. son of King George III, owned the German Osnabruck and George III was on the throne when the Canadian Osnabruck was nam- ed in 1787. If we cross the coun- t border into Glen arry we will aso find the towns to of Char- lottenburg, which similarly bears the name of a well-known com- munlt In Brandenburg. The Ger- man narlottenburg, and thus its Canadian namesake, commemor- ates Sophia Dorothea Charlotte, daughter of George I of England, who because the wife of Frederick William I of Germariy-Brockvllle Recorder and Times.

The shocking picture of that Am- erican soldier, who was starved by the Germans after being taken prisoner, again offers proof of what cold-blooded fiends the Nazis are. The poor fellow was captured dur- lng von Rundstedlfis offensive last December, and hls state of emaela! tlon indicates that he received llt- tle food since then. Yet. there ls no evidence that German clvlllans have starved-Hamilton Spectator.

A new method of putting In wln- uows ls now being used to reglaze bomb-damaged London. Instead of putty, a pressed steel bar, inex- pensive and efficient, ts used. It enables the work to be done ln a fraction of the time needed for the olcl method of glazing. It ts the idea of an official of the UK. Plumbers’ Union, A number of borough councils are now using large quantities of the pressed steel bar with great success. - Ottawa lzen.

Small boys grow to he men and gather labout ithemselves lflshliig tackle and equipment which is their rldc and jioy. They brag about t: and show t off, ln and out of season, and add to lt, blt, by blt. Then they go on fine blg fishing trips ivlilch cost them money and they do a lot of fishing, etc., and come home and tell about it, says the Elora Express. They also catch fish-big flsh, die-sized fish and flsh that got away. They catch so many fish that: the fam- ll can't. eat them all and they giiie them away to their friends. And they are fishermen until their dylntz day. But we doubt that ever. in all the annals of the habitual fisherman. ls there a day that will compare with the first warm_dny ln Spring when he peeled a willow wand and tled a string on the end; when he spent a nickel for hooks and sinker and dug a canful of worms from his mother's flower bed and set. out for “the erlck." We doubt strongly that any fish will taste as good as those three or four-inch shlners, cleaned on the back stoop and fried in butter, first frul of a season that: does not end tlll school calls ln September and the tlntze of Autumn brings other thoughts to mlnd.

It ls funny hnw some pbople discover the great importance and influence of their local newspaper when they gel. into a scrape. They llve for years without subscribing, but the- minute they get lnto some trouble, things look different, and they cannot get; to the editor quick enough to ask hlm not to say any- thing about it in the paper. Why? —Huron Expositor, Seafortli.

“In the continuing map-up of enemy remnants ln the Marianas. a Japanese was captured, so badly wounded that he could not survive without a blood transfusion. A company ommander, who knew that his men had been so sickened by Jap tactics that they believed the onlv good Jap was a dead Jan. made ihe gesture of asking for volunteers. Every mun in the com- pany offered to give blood-Time Magazine.

Kitchener Record thlnks “a fel- low has to be a coiitortlonlst to keep hls chin im and hls nose on the grlndstonc." We suppose he has, but if he tries to keep hls ear to the irround, back to the wall, hls shoulder to the wheel, hls hand to the ploutzh, hls tongue ln hls cheek, hls head over water, his foot ln his mouth, and hls eye on the ball-well, hefis apt to wind up with his face on the barronm floor. -T.D.F, ln the Ottawa Citizen.

Farming In Weetern Canada ll today on a more solid foundation. than ever before. largely because the British market has provided rm outlet for tlio utmost production of which our farms are capable. In- stead of having rill our eggs in .oiie basket-grain production-the West has gone into diversified farming

after the war depends largely upon being able to find a market for millions of hogs annually ln Great Britain. If we fall clown on ‘he ilprl]: now we may lose that market.

at is a polnt which should be set off against the various reasons why farmers have gun:- out of h s in the past few mon; Cane a needs that. stabilizer for her agri- culture. and we shoud do every- thing osslble to make condition: such t at hog production will be maintained for the remainder of the war et. n fairly high level. - Yorklton Enterprise.

“Mlu Gwelhleyn Graham, the Canadian writer of the best-seller, "Earth and Hltzh Heaven", receiv- ed more than $100,000 for her book and lt is estimated um Jlllll‘ all taxes have been deducted, she will et about e tenth of that sum for erself. But he; grateful country has given her the Governor Gen- eral‘: Award to; fiction, en honor which carries no cash prize with it.

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Canada. takes great ulna to see that the arts ln the mlnlon are practised strictly for their own

sake-Peterborough Examiner.

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gpgvledge and the fear of the

so that they shall not lb; eyes, of the ears; but ‘th l h earmg shall the; jlldige ifogrfifiilinffi

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Potato Restrictions

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ShOIlH-se. But there was no excuse

Dlaln ever since list autumn that in the Dominion.

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whether any great harm ivris done. at one

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