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Despite the substantial rise in farm produc- tion, crop prices and net farm income since start of the war, recent statistics on the value of occupied farm landshow a relatively modest gain. ‘The annual figures of net farm income have approximately doubled since 1939, but the average value per acre of farm land across Canada has risen only 20 per cent and" last years gain over i943 was only 7 per cent.

The official explanation suggested is that shortages of labor and machinery have discollr- aged expansion and new purchase of land hold- ings, and this ‘curbed the price-raising demand. Other factors probably include the desire of most farmers to use surplus income to pay off debts on existing holdings, to buy supplies and personal needs denied during depression years, and so develop nest-eggs (in Victory Bonds or otherwise) for post-ivar use when labor aiid other production costs are more attractive.

However, while the advance in farm laild values appears moderate iii relation to crop and farm income figures, of itself it has been not in- considerable and iii some of the choicer farming sections the trading has been brisk and the rise in land prices well above the average. And the average increase in values adds another index to those reflecting the materially enhanced posi- tioil of Canada's farmers as a result of thc war.

The Red Cross Campaign

Prince Edward Island has again made all excellent start in the current Red Cross cam- paign, with every prospect that our $50,000 objective will be exceeded. This, however, de- pends upon wholehearted public co-operation and support. It should be remembered that the relief needs of eleven nations are covered in this nation-ivide appeal — namely, the Belgian \Var Relief Fund, Canada-France Relations Committee, Canadian Friends of Luxembourg, the Cliiilesc War Relief Fund, the Czechoslo- vakia War Charities Fund, the Greek War Re- lief Fund, thc- Netherlands Relief Fund, the Norwegian Rclicf Fund, the United Polish Re- lief Fund, the Yugoslavia Relief Fund and the Canadian Aid to Russia. It will require gen- erous contributions front all Canadian citizens to ensure the success of _the campaign. In view of the fact that the Red Cross appeal really means twelve appeals in one, thus saving sllb-

scribers the inconvenience and expense of slip-

porting these separately, there should be little difficulty in raising the money -— which is the minimum requirement to meet the needs.

In emphasizing the increased urgency and scope of the relief activities of the society, it is stated that this year's campaign is the most important in the history of the organization. Good war news should not create an impres- sion that the services of the Red Cross are likely to be curtailed in the near future. “If the war were to end tomorrow," the public is informed iii a statement issued by the society, "the responsibilities of Red Cross would be no less than they are today; in fact, they might well be increased."

Canada-U. S. Air Agreement

Some idea of what was decided at the con- ference between Canadian and American civil aviation officials some weeks ago has been made public by Prime Minister King.

The question most at issue at the confer- ence concerned air routes to be operated by each country across the international boundary. The United States has enjoyed an advantage of about 8 to I over Canada iii this respect, but a correction of this lopsidedness is found in the agreements. Canada has been granted land- ing rights on eight routes of her o\vn specific requesting, while the United States, being re- granted existing air routes operated by it ill Call- ada, has entry over fifteen routes into Can- ada. The resultant distribution, or allocation, is thought reasonably proportioned in view of the vast differences in populations and sources of air traffic.

Steps taken in the last seven or so ycars have led Canada successfully to this alignment of air routes crossing the international bound- ary. They all lead to American cities m which Canada seeks landing rights, but malty are only on thc way to greater extensions oi Canada's international air traffic. They could neither be asked for nor accepted four or five years ago, not before Canada had her own ef- ficient air transport system. Blit now that that system is operating, has proved itself, and been accorded international recognition and approval beyond the continents and beyond the oceans, Canada could accompany its powerful neighbor into the conference room confident in her abil- ity to cope with the big share of air traffic which could be awarded her over the air routes allocated to Trans-Canada Air Lines.

Fur Trade In Britain

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A revival of the United Kingdom fur trade is indicated. Before the war, London was a world fur-trading centre, and the most import-

ant overseas market for Canadian raw furs.

During wartime the trade has been pfilCilCZlllY dormant. ‘t The Board of Trade now announces pre-

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liminary steps designed primarily to provide the fur trade with the necessary basis in the home market for reviving and developing London's position after the war as a world fur centre. These facilities are two-fold: (l) to permit the manufacture of utility fur apparel; and (a) to reduce the rate of purchase tax applicable to these utility types.

Three classes of fur skins will be prescrib- cd_for the utility garments: (a) Sheepskins, dressed in their natural colour with the pelt fin- ished as leather; (b) unshorn, dressed and dyed rabbit-skins (this class excludes undyed wild rabbit-skins, and it also excludes undyed tame rabbit-skins); and (c) a short list of relatively inexpensive skins, of which there are stock available not salable for export. These com- prise antelope, red fox, lamb, hair seal, mole, rabbit (excluding wild undyed and those‘ speci- fied in class B), fitch, genet, opossum, etc.

'Iii order to maintain the quality of utility fur garments, the Board of Trade proposes tak- ing powers to remove from the register any manufacturer who supplies inferior goods. Canadian fur exporters will note that the permitted varieties of furs are all of the type oh- taiiiable either in the United Kingdom or other parts of the sterling area. to that extent tentative and limited in scope. Nevertheless it is an important revival of the industry.

-EDITORIAL

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_ Sir john Frederick William Herschel, Eng- lish astronomer, born this date, I792; was son of Sir_ William Herschel, also an astronomer, who discovered the planet Uranus and two of the satellites of Saturn; Sir john read for the _Bar and was admitted but never practised, tak- ing up a hobby until it became his life work the observation‘ and study of the southern skies, publishing the results of his survey in scientific journals. He also published Outlines of Astron- omy, which proved by far the most popular scientific text book of the day: “Self-respect—- that comer stone of all virtue.”

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Plere is Monday morning's record at the City Police Court: Roland——Drunk and incapable- ten days suspended sentence. \Valter——Drunk and disorderly—bail of $20 estreated and ord- ered to pay damages. James-Drunk and in- §apable—$5 bail estreated. Harold-Drunk and incapable—$5 bail estreated. Eddic—Drunk and incapable-—$5 bail estreated. Leniuel_ Drunk and incapable-adjourned. Philip -- Drunk and disorderly-—$2o and costs or thirty days. Walter-Drunk and incapable—$5 and COSYS. or ten days suspended sentence. Was it on scripts or biootltegtthat is the question?

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The report of the New Brunswick Liquor Control Board for the year ended Oct. 3i, i944, shows a nct increaseof sales amounting to $I.034.993.4o and a net profit of $3,497,088.94, an increase of $442,i 571m. In addition in the m; PIYOfllS 0f $3.497.083~94 Payable to the Provin- cial Treasurer, the Dominion Government re- ceived Customs and Excise Duty and Sales Tax amounting to $1,455,424.81 paid directly by the Board to the Federal Government while further large amounts for Excise Duty and Sales Tax were paid indirectly through Con- adian Distilleries, Wine Producers and Brew- ers. whose products were purchased by the Board on a duty paid basis. It is interesting and instructive to note that in gathering inall this money and profit only 232 people were em- ploycd proving once more that the drink traf- fic is not a major employment industry.

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The present conditions of the potato mar- ket and possible improvements were discussed by loo potato growers at a recent meeting of the N. B. Co-Operative Federee held in Saint john. Five resolutions for improvements were passed and a sixth passed that will be submitted to interested local co-operatives. The resolutions called for the construction of ware- houses partly out of government grants at the disposal of societies and syndicates ivishing to build, and asked that official grading of all potatoes going by rail or water be instituted; that research work be done to find uses for un- marketable potatoes; that licences from the ])l'O\'lllCifli Department of Agriculture be neces- sary for all shippers shipping other than their own products; and that the C. N. R. be asked to favor the co-operatives in their distribution of freight cars. Another resolution asking that a half-ceilt be deducted on each bag of potatoes sold by Co-opcrative Federee for thc purpose of advertising, will be passed on for the ap- proval of local units. s: s s s

llcre is how Chief of Police H. E. U. Leese of Saint john accounts for juvenile delinquency and how it should be handled: "We are not getting into thc bad spots, cleaning out the crime breeding elements. We are not providing other channels of diversion through progressive re- creational, body building. and above all, char- actcr-hiiilding activities that will guide delin- quent, abnormal behavior group to the road of clean living and good citizenship. juvenile de- linquency is only one of the maiiy social prob- lems that can bc more effectively controlled if we, as a people, have the will, courage, and de- termination to force action along the channels that Wlll not only reclaim or lessen delinquents, but also eliminate or drastically restrain those 1lll(lCSll"llJlC elements in the present-day society that sow the seeds of juvenile delinquency, You cannot hope to effectively cope srith juvenile delinquency and not do something to curtail or eradicate the causes. Among thgse are liquor, beverage rooms. tindesirable motion pictures, crime magazines and crime radio stories. When enlisting the support of parents in combating juvenile delinquency, a not uncommon remark is. ‘What else can you expect when our children are fcd fiill of sex, crime and psychoiieuroti: situations in the moving pictures and radio pro-

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Equality Of Sacrifice

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end by flea. John leach leach: s! the I Conservative Party. at t m Annual Meettng of t Annotation hi Ottawa. March I, IBIS.) L

It ls time we removed the scales from our eyes and saw thins! clearly. Not only should the few men now on leave who have been sway five years be allowed to re- main here but. the vastly greater number of l‘ W“ 1m" m“ overseas and not on leave ought m be given ‘thigh’: it ousfit to be a rumnen .

fr“. with this picture vividly 1n mind that I spoke in GrfiY. North. 1 used plain lanauwse the"; la there one amont; yo" W110 WWlI have done lam? As I said there. am not, given to strong words. But whm yqutig Canadians told me “m; they had gone without ade- quste trained reinforcement , When ‘hay gave me the messatle

mg back home that they need- m not, only trained relnforcernepts but the assurance that the nut on was behind them; when I s" them back of the llne after three or four or five years °l the ab‘ normal environment of win rtlrjg nggrly uwo years of battle. W0 I have been made of stone had not spoken clearly to the nation thgy had left. I would have failed ln my clear. duty had I not SD01!‘ en as I did. for their need wee rest and the time was short, and

vy fighting lay ahead-

m v 1L5 8.115- weiiilhki tlsiiefiy carllir Andante that ans- wer lt save wprefislw l° “H; lon’s will. n spoke in W"

mm can fall to understand. said: "Let the call-up for war be “°'.“"'“"" ‘$2.3? .';‘i‘°§..".“.;

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away with." And ll Sflld- L" those who are trained. 110i "n" trained. so forward to support 0111‘ men ln the battle line.

Yes, that typical cross-section 0! PMIIOUO Canadians — Grey N011“ -made its known to the men overseas-that no half-way measures, no haltlnq. fll881l118~ hull-hearted partial draft for overseas service was good enough. Grey North demanded that the trained men available 1n Canadas home army be fully. not Partially mobilized for their lieln.

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y broug t ‘hlm to tloli near BOIIIDIK early ln 1943. Since then he as been under the care of the unit, b whom he is regarded as a mssc —Prom U. K. Information Bullet. -

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heard with interest. t e pessimistic utterances of the Very Rev. W. R. Inge, Britain's "gloomy dean." Last week Dean Inge made n fresh con- tribution. Wrltlng in the London Evening Standard he predicted that 100 years hence there would be only two fist-class powers — Rue- sla and a unton of the English- speaklng nations “with the United States as a predominant partner and England as the much-respect- ed grandmother." He said the Un- ltecl States has a great future and "will remain predominantly IBrl- tls ."-New York Times.

Ileluctantly but. graciously, Sheriff Mulachy has yielded on a matter of style concerning new bailiffs’ uniforms for county courts. The coats are to have slx brass buttons

Let. Mr. Mulcahy. who favored plain black, be comforted b the knowl- edse that the metal utton is an integral part of peace-officer tradi- tion. The slang term "copper", often shortened to "co was coin- ecl when London's me laeval watch and ward system was replaced, 1n the 1830's, by an organized corps of 3,000 uniformed police. r copper buttons were so visible that the nickname was inevitable. The blue coat dates from the same event. ‘Iliat color was chosen for contrast to the red coat of the English soldier. Incidentally. ln case ou didn't know, "bobble" and the ess frequently heard "peeler" were born as sarcastic tributes to Sir Robert

And in that stinging _rebuke to the Government's unfair call-up. its double standard army system and its wishy-washy reinforcement plan, Grey North spoke not. for lt- self alone-it. e the inner- most thoughts of the nation as a whole. Arid by that voice. the men who are on th fighting llne have been heartened because they know now that. m matter where the Government stands. no mat- ter where their former Ctrmmand- er stands, no matter where Mr. King stands. no matter what. poll-

Grey North's voice they know that the heart of the people ls sound and that the nation will find a

the past and» stand behind its fighting men. The voice which thus rang out across the notion was whattliose men wanted to hear. To them. Canada had thus elv- en the assurance they needed. To them it meant that Canada was behind them with all the country

could give. of equlty, of fairness and of A oyeinerits.

The meaning of Grey North has not been lost on Canada. even itthough Mr. King chooses to ignore dict of Grey. North but. he flollts Parliament and de-fts public opin- ion throughout the country. Hav- ing gotten himself into a jam of his own making, he runs tho country without a normal session of Parliament and continues to keep in office, as senior Defence Minister. a man who was badly beaten ln a specially selected seat. a man to whom the people of Grey North said: “We don't. want anyone with your policy ln the

have any man with such a. policy as Defence Minister for Canada." If Mr. King wants to prove that. he believes in democracy, let hlm change his unfair and discrimin- atory pollcy, and let hlm ask for the resignation of his defeated Minister, both of which Grey North told him to do. Grey North was chosen by the Government as a testing ground for its policy. merit has had lLs answer. Whether the Government was to continue {he partlaji unfralr alga‘ discrim- natory pocy o ma - nlng wo smiles-one to fight, the other to be sheltered at home-that was the major issue. And Grey North hos shown clearly that this King- concelved and McNaughton-admin- istered device will not be tolerated longer. But. what has Mr. King done? Once again, even as he did fol- lowing the Pleblsclte. he has 1B- nored the direction of the peo- ple. An unfair call up. inade- quate reinforcements. s continued flouting of the people's wlll-these were bad enough. But a wasteful and discriminatory two-army sys- tem, even sfter five years o wart Was there ever before ln human f. calculated device for deceiving he people and per- petuating dlscprrl. apt! ' ‘l

No. Canada doesn't_want either the author of that conception or the man he has brought in to administer Canada doesn't want. the double standard or the piecemeal draft. And the boys overseas don't want the man who et them down by aeceptlnl it. The men doing the fighting. like

want all

ted alike — fairly, im- partially, without discrimination. as the Government was directed in the plebisclt of April 1942 and ngattjulgy Grey North in Febru- s

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At the present moment, nothing can be of greater concern to us all than the welfare of the men who. even as we dine together here. are in deadly combat with s cunnlnst. highly trained enemy. ln a battle which means so much to the fut- ure of mankind. with that view tie people of Cnisds are in agreement. That is why. no mat- ter what Mr. King says or what his partner in this hoax. General

tlcal tricks he may indulge ln; by -

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Peel, author of the Metropolitan gollce Statute of 1829. -- Chicago un. _ \

It takes no particular provision to see the potential danger to man- kind of the possession of this wen- pon (the ro ot. bomb) b an ag- gressor Power. An unscrupulous people could rain destruc-lon upon a neighbour at. a moment‘; notice, and could hope by such means to obtain such advantages that it could impose its wlll upon the world. In once-time such a dim- ger must e worded off, tn the first instance, by political and dlplo. matte measures. The most ob- vious ts that! all the genre-loving nations m t get toget er to pro- ct them elves against an unde- clared assault from a likely ag- gressor. For many years s. watch- ful eve wlll have to be kept upon Germany, not merely by the world Organization but by those coun- tries most closely concerned — tn this case, Britain, France, and the smaller western democracies. The World Organization wlll not re- elude such regional understan and the most likely development seems the formation of regional groups -- in the west. of Europe under the leadershl of Britain and the east under t e leadership of Russia-Daily Mall (London).

There are various desirable vir- tues tn wives. and those cherished ln one country do not always flnd favor in another. In America a glrl who wanted to marry an army officer would not think of learn-

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founded sevent years ago to gve women access the medical pro- fession. less than five per cent of London's medical students are wo- men. This compares with about twenty per cent elsewhere tn Bri- tain, which the Goodenough Com- mittee regarded as "reasonable." It now remains to ensure that equality of opportuntt in the medl- cal schocl ls not. frus ated by con- tinued .' against wo- men tn the staffing of hospitals.- Msnchesrer Guardian.

N. B. Hay Shortaee

(Saint John T‘ , ' "mall New Brunswick is. rlesiclng a shortage 1n its ha supply. In ord- er to meet the emahds of con- sumers many dealers have found it necessary to purchase hay tn Quebec. Various reasons are giv- en for the scarcity of this kind of fodder at this time. some dealers are inclined to the belief that much of the trouble has been caused by the poor condition of the highways to the back seme- menta. where lt is said falr quan- tities of hay ‘are stored. Usually Ln the winter months ha, ,. 4; equipment. ls sent into these‘ dls- tricts and the hay bundled for sale to dealers. But this year such activity has been seriously curtail- ed. Also it ls recorded that the crop during the last season was below normal in most districts and manpower was not sufficient to cut what was available. It is - lleved that 1f normal distribution there would have been enough hay for the Whole province. It. ls recalled that during the last wai- New Bruns- wick found it riecesa to bring hay from Quebec as is sing done n