H" wltlloat board. i1; yang ilovrer than in Ontario. at $3.10 with board

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Morning Daily (Founded In 1881) Author-had as Second Clan Ml". Post Ollco Department, Ottawa.

r dent, has A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. l. Barnetit; Secyz-Treaa, G. M. Burnett: Editor lard

Managing Director, J. R. Burnett; Anoclnte Editor,

Frank‘ Walker.

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

THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 19-16

Prairie Wheat llrop

__ Good news for a hungry world is the mag. rpiificent wheat crop anticipated ‘ti-ii; yen,- in me rairie Proyinces. e Wynmpgg f,“ pm” estimates it at 441,100,000 bushels, and the‘ production of all grains—wheat, oats, barley, flax and rye-at over 900,000,000, While it is impossible to calculate just what the 1946 harvest will mean to western farmers in dollars and cents, it is almost bound _to set a new record for monetary value, and will be of tremendous economic import- ance to the whole country. In terms of human need, these bountiful stores of grain have even more significance, far beyond Canada's beump aries.

The Free Press places the Manitoba wheat crop at 63,000,000 bushels, with an average yield of 22.2 bushels per acre. What is re. markable is the fact that this is the eighth suc- cessive year that the province has had a crop above its long-term average for wheat, 16 bus- hels per acre. But that last figure itself takes the eight phenomenal years into account. For purpose of comparison it would be ieasona" to go back to the 25 years before the war. Puring the 25 years from 1914 to 1938, (both inclusive), the Manitoba average yield per qq-e worked out at 15.2 bushels. For the eight years Ifyialm 1939 to 1946 the average was 21.1 bus-

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‘Providence of course had mast to do with the improvement. But man, in his humble way, has been helping himself. Through the development of varieties of wheat resistant to the scourge of stem rust, which used to afflict Manitoba in the past, he has undoubtedly sav- ed millions of bu L ' of wheat annually. Were lt not for such fine wheats as Regent, the rec-

v ord could hardly have been so impressive.

Agricultural Scholarships

Twenty scholarships, each valued at $800, awarded to Canadian scientists for advanced training in the field of agriculture, have been announced by the Agricultural Institute of Can- ada. The winners are all graduates of Can adian universities, and most provinces are rep- resented in the list.

Fourteen of the winners will do advanced training at various institutions in the United States where special facilities exist for par- ticular types of post-graduate work. The Uni- versity of Illinois, lowa State College, Virginia Polytichnic Institute, Utah State College, Cor- nell University, University of Wyoming, Uni- versity of California and the University of Minnesota will all receive one or more of these candidates for periods ranging from one to three years. On completion of this work, all of these men will return to Canada to assume more important pasts in the field of scientific agriculture. Canadian institutions represented in the list are University of Toronto, Univers- ity of Saskatchewan, University of Alberta, Uni- versity of British Columbia, and Macdgnuld College of McGill University.

Among the winners are nine veterans of World War ll, whose uCCld8fl1lC careers were interrupted for varying periods owing to their service in the armed forces.

In announcing these awards, Mr. C. Gor- don O'Brien, general secretary of the Agricul- tural lnstitute at Ottawa, states that it is an- ticipated -an equal number will be alloca d next year. The funds are provided by in us- trial firms interested in the future of agricul- ture. The project would be a long-term one and these organizations are doing a valuable service to Canada by their generous invest- ment in Canadian agricultural scientists.

Farm Ware Rates

Wage rates paid for farm help in Can- ada averaged higher at May 15 this year than on the corresponding date of 1945, according to returns received by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics from farm correspondents in all prov- inces of the Dominion. This year's advance follows upon a similar rho last yoar ovar the same date of 1944. '

For all Canada the average rates were $3.25 per day and $71.36 per month with board as compared with $3.04 and $66.88 in 1944, and $4.15 per do and $96.27 per month without

, board as against $3.89 and $90.60. These rates, the Bureau states, are almost the some as those paid lost year at August 15, which is usually the high poinf for the year, and a further in- crease by August is thus indicated if crop pros- pacts are maintained _af anywhere near normal.

The highest wage rates were reported from the three westernmost provinces. British Cal-

aynbia led with rates of $3.80 per day and $79.60 r month with board and $4.74 par day and 104.05 flvitliout board. For Ontario the aver- ratq raportad were $329 par day and

U-wltlwboord, and $4.19 par day and $89.40

For Quebec the rates par day

$3.96.wlthout board, but higher par month ~$6I34 nd_ $93.96, ‘ respectively. Prince i a hi! tlta lowest ratasLat $2.53 par , tll with board, and $3.28

59"?- . ‘li-“iihfi. "filth a i». :i"‘ri1i?:l""'"' ' s Qilbcc,

$63-94 ($59.60); New Brunswick, $76.98 ($75.32); Nova Scotio, $70.39 ($64.07); Prince Edward island, $55.76 ($50.19).

- EDITORIAL _

His Excellency Field Marshal Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George, lst Viscount Alexander, of Tunis, G.C.B., C.S.l., D._S.O., MlC. and Vis- countess Alexander will be here Saturday and traverse the island to see and be seen. Let us put our best foot forward.

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The Salvation Army Campaign workers are to be congratulated upon the excellent show- ing they made in the city collections. lt is evi- dence of their enthusiasm and the popularity of the organization for which they were seeking aid. No doubt the rest of the Province in this respect will measure up to the city's standard.

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Hon. Victoria Bruce, daughter of the 6th Baron Balfour of Burleigh and sister of the present Lord Balfour, has been appointed gav- ernor of Duke Street Prison, Glasgow. She has been governor of the girls’ Borstal Institu- tion at Aylesbury, Bucks, for over five years, and is an authority on crime and its preven- tion.

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The Scottish National Party, small ln numbers- but vociferous in demands for home rule, has voted to petition the United Nations for self government for Scotland. The action was taken at the party's annual conference and sponsors said efforts would be made to get the support of the British Daminions and the Uni- ted States for the petition.

*l< * ll< Something all important brewing in Lon- don. British military attaches in South Am- erica, and it is reported the British military at- taches in all parts of the world, have suddenly been ordered to proceed to London by air for a conference. Although no definite reason far this step has been given, it is reported in some quarters that the Imperial Staff desires a first hand picture from its experts in the field in order to evolve new overall policy.

, i ll‘ t! ll‘ lt must be borne in mind that Mr. Tru- man ousted Mr. Wallace from the vice-presi- dency of the United States, otherwise he would have been President today. No doubt Mr. Wal- lace has still Presidential ambitions, and con- siders that seeing Mr. Truman is out of favour with Labour, and not altogether popular with the Big Interests, a good opportunity of furth- ering his cause politically presents itself by giving the proverbial "twist to tlie lion's tail" at this particular juncture in international af- fairs.

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1 1K 11' ti! The surprise of the 2d Prince by-election was not the return of the Liberal candidate, which seemed a forgone conclusion, but the heavy poll regisered. ‘It was a property vote, and as a rule property voters are hereditary‘ party men, not easily swayed from their allegi- ance. At an election they usually vote with their party, or stay at home. On the present occasion there must have beeh few resting on their laurels, testifying to the vigor and effici- ency with which the campaign was carried on by the workers of both political organizations. *1‘ >l= >1‘ ti‘

Charles Poulett Thomson, First Baron Syd- enham, Governor-General of Canada, 1839-41, died this date 1841. Was sent to Canada to carry into effect Lord Durham's recomiiiEnda- tions with regard to the union of the two Canadas and the introduction of I spansible government and municipal institutions; he succeeded better than the most optimistic anticipated, but al- most met his Waterloo when he insisted upon being his own Prime Minister and took the view that "the Council was a council to be consult- ed, and no more." lt was perhaps fortunate for his reputation that his period of office was cut short by a fall from his horse at Kingston which proved fatal, and he was succeeded by Sir Charles Bagot. I 11' >1‘ * 11*

Bulgaria in the matter of the choice of government has gone from one extreme to an- other. ln 1934 a group of military men and] politicians, assisted by the army executed a coup d’etat which overthrew the Democratic government and chose a Non-Party administra- tion which favoured the monarchy, with Boris lll as king, and a dictatorship was established. Now with an overwhelming majority of more than 92 per cent in favor of the republic, the Bulgarians have rejected the monarchy in a referendum. According to official and almost final results, out of 4,478,300 eligible voters 4,103,000 went to the polls. Favoring the re- public were 3,801,160, favoring the monarchy were 179,275. ‘The rest of the ballots were spoiled or blank. ,The Labour Party is under the direction of Moscow, being members of the

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A lucky Canadian bride. If the Malayan Government is successful in its attempts to acquire the palace of the Sultan of Johore for the residen e of the Union's new governor- ‘general, Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald, the former High Commissioner to Canada, a beau- tiful young Canadian widow who is the mother of two children and who has spent most of her 30 years among the prim, lawn-flanked. streets and grey-faced buildings of Ottawa, may become mistress of a mysterious yet lux- urious building that is flanked on one side by the lush, primitive Malayan jungle and on the other hand by a sun-drenched beach of the blue South China Sea. Tha' government has plans for o renovation program to cost upwards of 200,000 Straits dollars. The young Con- adlan is Mrs. Audrey Rowley, widowof Lieu- tlnant-Calanal John lav/lay, D. S. 0., who was killed ln~,,April, 1945, while leading his North Shore flii Brunswick Regiment in an attack on the Jblita. Mrs. Rowlay, who drove a Rad Cross trqnsparklii Britain for two years during tha m, we. recently cnga sd to Mr. MacDonald. Tliay inst lit Ottawa. ' a is tliecldcst dough». _ of Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon Fsllowu of Ottavia.

Notes By The Way

The postwar automobile. sorori- Ina to s contemporary an - remarkable features, moat mnask- able of which is its invisibility. -- Port Arthur News-Chronicle. .

A 41-017, from Chicago says a. huslnsndh Pfktical 10km brought an end to a marriage there. ‘ It could be added that. practical jokes are also the beginning of many marriages. -—'W1nclsor Star.

Red soldiers who have discovered that. llvlng standards are higher away from home miust be "rein- doctrlnaterl" before returning to Rvssla. The final question being. .' »w are you convinced that you d n't see what. you saw?" - st, Thomas Tunes-Janina].

A l“!!! strike is almost always

a losi -si.ri'ke for both parties, but th principle appree, even more fm-elbly to labor the,“ t4;

mflP-ilaemerut. ‘that is why failure to settle the Steel strike :5 bud nerve very bad news. for labor. —Owen Sound Sun-‘Ilmes. -

With the now supcraonlc door opener. motorists won't. have to or lift; the garage door; they'll just whistle it, open. Business Week predicts. A supersonic whistle, op- erated from the ilashboard, is pick- ed up by a. microphone above the door. magnified mmlllier w actuate a. door-lifting mozor

If we are firm if wc are clear- hcaded, 1f we show that. we know and understand what we are about. both ln Europe and in the Pac- ific and that we nave no intention of being thmwn of.f balance. the R/usslans wlll'be forced to alter their technique. The-y may not. be forced to abandon their ultimate objectives. The quasi-religion which ls Communism will not permit their: to do that. But they decide mat. t.‘.le_ time Ls no: rlpe for them to push ‘i315 too far —B;\lbi- more Sun.

Because a Presbyterian has died, the 19 bells of New York's Catholic Cathedral are silent. M. hlckutell Toulmln, the Presbyterian. had rung the bells of St. Patrick's for 44 years. He learned his art from his father. who for 35 years was bell-rlmgel at New York's Pro- testant, Episcopalian Cathedral. Nearly every Sunday and an. his- toric occasions like VE-Dny and VJ-Dey. Montell Touimin rang the Cathedral chimes. Much o! the music he played he composed him- self. He became ill three months ago and since then. only the clock- work-controllcd Angelus has been sounded. So far no one. Catholic or Presbyterian, has been four-d to succeed him. --'l.‘ne Universe.

The warning by medical auth- orities that unnecessary worry over false symptoms of heart ailments is causing many pea-sons to develop nervous troubles ls one that should be considered zvell by anyone who has not consulted a physician but thinks that he has such an all- ment. It ls also pointed out that ever. organic mmfilulnts may follow each worry. It all paints back to the fact that. the best cgursc to follow when one believes that he nas -.n illness. \.1 that something is wrong. is to consult a doctor. Self-diagnosis 0111". lead but to worry and will do little towards getting the care which one may need. —\E0st,on Pest

The paralyzing traffic anarls. our unsatisfactory nubile schools, our overcrowded, alrtv subways —-such pcmibiems are mi. yto be downed ln a burst of furious local flog- waving. They will have to be faced and answered. We are big and are paying the penafiy that. every in- atltutlan pays for growing old and large. The law of diminishing l'e- turns has set in on our sire and ‘we miust combat it. as the human bodv combats e. disease of old a39- —'I‘\he New York Post.

The strike has been a useful instrument in enabling the xork- ers to regobiate with their ein- ployers on equal terms. Bu: today the strike has outlived it. useful- _ness and has become a. crime against the nation, Some better wav of adjusting the relations be- tween the parties, u way that will Jul. make n. helpless pawn of the public, miuct we worked out. But. ibefore ainythlrlg else is done the position of the worker nelcro ‘he Law must. be made the same as that of any other citizen; subject to the same responsibilities and the some penalties. At present his posnilon 1s eniu-ely irresponsible. being above and independent of the Law. —Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph.

The mothers of about: I10 Crest- on, 3.6., whool children have or- ganized o. strike to keep their cnlld- ren away from school until the road over which the children must travel is repaired. One part; of the road. they say. is quite narrow and slopes off to t. sneer drop. Public opinion is in favor of these young- stern not. being Exposed w we“ e hazard. But it iscems a lTlY. since juveniles are so intimatelydnvolv- ed. that, the mothers strand have chosen urge/hired defiance as the wee-pan in their endeavor to have the wrong righted. ‘me urge to defy-whether pzvents. teacher, or the ls/w-is something most boys

stage of their ;rawth._'1nd 111B way they meet. that. crisa depends largely on the kind of home and other adult influence surrounding their lives. -calzzurv Albertan-

‘They are biilldlng n now llcuac of Commons to I ‘ a. the one destroyed in the blitz of Liar-don. But theyare building it with scat- lug accommodation for onlv '9'»! lots tract-urban of 1171mm gxiinaéha flgigg 1,: I ' in‘: m‘: csk accommodation is pfovldQfi foe every mutter. In addition, evasytwo memmrs have 5 mom t4; themselves lll tbs-Path lament buildings. with semeturlal hglp, Very comfortable rctlrin mom the are. too. But that la not ‘vitally a m0 ted at HCIIGHII two Morn- rs into a single room; st the lal and re

h] , and uita .a few other iiiiriii.‘ n is Br!

may m least ‘shortages which he cannot supply

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Tklacoluasn‘h cpaq ts- tba discussion b; corral I

ti; endorse the aplnlaq, at ; correspondent. ,- f‘ - WAI VITlB-‘AWI QUOTA

Sim-Please allow me space to enlighben the public on how “Vetii" are treated 'in some llnca of busi- ness, especially in the grocery business of which the undersign- ed Vet has had a great deal of experience.

As you know there are shortages of certain commodities. ,. '“ ‘ar- ly in shortening. When this Vet asks for shortening and lard from the local wholesalers they tell him he had no quota in IOQI. This Vet wrote to the Administrator of the Ration Board, Ottawa, Ont, to place his quota with the local wholesaler and the reply is: “Ow- ing toahortages of fats and oils we are unable to place your quota with yourlocal wholesaler for new beginners." ' 1n the first place. where was this Vet when the- quota. wai ls- sued in 1941? Fighting overseas to nave Canada, her government and her people from Nazi rule. Secondly, where does priority come in for Vet's quota when he ls turn- ed down by the same governm at? This Vet is not asking for prior- lty, which was promi-sed him at cessation of war, but a 50-50 basis with his competitors. Ls this not fair? Who should be protected, the merchant who made money in safe surroundings, away from m; din of war for six years, m‘ the Vet who fought during these years? Moreover it can be plainly seen how detrimental it is ta the Vet's business when his patrons ask for

Dronortionslly with his competi- w" "Wink lo government reculm tions, During the war this Vet felt he fought in a Just cause, but sorry to say not so on the home front. I am Sir, em,

JUST ANOTHER VET

_-______ Priceless Rewards For Free Farmers

(John Atkins of Shlnweuk Farm)

The free farm folk of Canada. free from debt, free from supervis- ion, llree from drudflfy. IP89 {Wm clbles, are the most blest. of all peoples. They can be satisfied with llrttle or no return from their farm work because they are I10! 1998"" ding on ll: to meet capital casts. They come as close as any film W living in heaven on earth. There are only a few free farm people in Canada. A small frac- tion of Canada's forms have 5'45‘

a reasonable 00-hour work week- Farmers who keep livestock, with- out sufficient help. mast fame“- must work from 72 to 84 hours a week, with no holidays. Drudgery destroys their freedom and robs their llves of recreation. The free farmer and his wile, who enjoy good health, and have suf- flclent help to enable them to do their share of the farm and house work in 60 hours a week. with ample leisure for the cnloymcnt. of their environment, are the Ireeh and happiest people ln the world. Nature is their personal posses- sion. They revel in the glory of the early morning, 'I'.he ceaseless changes of the sky are their un- ending delight. The seasons unfold fully to them. The trees in green, in autumn color, and at rest in snow. are their constant joy. The bright sun. the sharp outlines 0f the hills, the wide clenr vistas. al- ternating with the mist and haze, and the softly shaded landscape. are their panorama. Lakes, rivers arid ponds, reflect the chameleon magic of the heavens in water. and on ice and snow, for their pleasure. The deep woods afford an exclusive haven for their re- freshment ln all the year- Truly. the cup of these farm folk runneth over. 'I'helr's ls a solid satisfaction in their working partnership with Providence. An instinctive seren- ity rewards their faithful trustee- shlp. Confidence in the eternal rlghtness grows through thelr striving to find and further its purposes. They llve and work with life, see all of its worthwhile re- wards, andenjoy the comfort that comes to those who play their part in feeding mankind. They llve close to the etemnl verifies.

Romance In Names

(Winnipeg Free Press)

Western Canadians are, gener- ally speaking. delinquents ln ap- preciation of Western Canada's history. Its colorfulnees is, realiz- ed nnew when cursorily glancing down the list of Manitoba's place names arid their origins. While many are. naturally, of Indlim origin, there ls a generous, sprink- ling of namu of explorers and