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Monetary Policy wg

Canada's post"-war monetary policy was fully described recently by Mr. Graham F. Towers, Governor of the Bank of Canada, at a hearing of the Banking and Commerce Committee of the House of Commons. Al cursory reading of it is reminiscent of the mother's instructions to ”find out what .lohnny is doing, and tell him to stop."

Monetary policy seems to consist of dis- couraging consumer buying when a lot of, people want to buy: encouraging capital ex- pansion when a lot of people were sud- de.nly looking for new jobs: lowering the market. price of Government securities when the banks wanted to liquidate them in the prospect of greatly expanded civilian busi- ness; inclcasilig interest rates when there is a great. demand for borrowed trolley: and when businesses propose large capital ex- pansion using bank credit to ”.suggest” to the chartered banks that it was undesirable for capital expansion to be financed in that; way. The enthusiastic inflow of capital from the Ynited States was countered by freeing the rate of exchange so that such investments would be made more costly.

All of this adds up to a consistent aim; of achieving "stability". Tlze Governor ofi the Pfmk of Canada is in the position of one standing at the pivotal point on a sec- sau ready to shift his weight to compensate for any change in weigh or position of those sitting at either end. Mr. Towers is not satisfied that he can shift weight with sufficient case and effectiveness and pro- poses that there he established in Canada .1 well organized market in Govelnment sec-, urities. Such a market would be a far more sensitive instrument of monetary pol- icy than the. methods of direct intervention now necessary. ;

Soviet Farm Troubles

There is every sign that the crisis in agricultural production in the Soviet Union is far graver than it appeared to be a few months ago when the first signs of trouble became visible to the outer world, and that the new a;;ricultural programme launched

last autumn has failed to bring about any,

marked improvement. The first ominous in- dication, writes W. N. Ewer in a United Kingdom information Office release, was given last .luly when Pravda began to com-

plain of bad management in agriculture and; " Then came Malenkovlsi

of "enormous losses. long speech to the Supreme Soviet in Aug- ust in the course of which he cllled for a big upsurge in agricultural production, out- lined changes that would give the peasants more incentive to produce and strongly crit- icized the lag in production of livestock, dairy produce, potatoes, fruit and vege- tables. But he claimed at the same time. that there had been great successes in the development of agriculture and that produc- tion was increasing.

It was only when Krushchcv reportcrii on the situation in September and an- nounced the new programme that. the ser- iousness of the. situation began to be ap- parent. tlvcrall production harl only in-, creased by 10 per cent since 1940--not sufficiently to keep pace with the growth of. popuiation and far less than had been ex-l peeled as the result, of mechanization and of scientific methods. But the emphasis was still on livestock. Here the picture was startling. The cattle population was: less than before the Revolution. Quality' was poor. The average milk yield of a Soviet cow was less than half that of all British cow. There was an ”intoicrable lag in animal husbandry." '

The new programme was characteristic- ally sweeping. Not only were there to he; more incentives for the peasantry; 100.0001 agronomists and experts were to be sent to the collective farms to bring about improve-. ments. 10,000 new tractor drivers were to be enrolled. Orders were given that the growth of herds must be hastened. The number of cows was to be increased from 24 million to 29 million by the end of 1954. Nikita Krushchcv himself, first secretary of the Communist Party and second In the hierarchy only to Malenkov and Molotov. was to take charge. February brought the announcement of another grandiose plan. A pastoral area in Kazakhstan as large as England was to be converted to arable. 6,000,000 acres were to be ploughed this year. 13,000 young Communist volunteers, mostly from Moscow and the Ukraine, were

of-some 100,000. What was -to happen to the Kazakh inhabitants was not mentioned. A fewweeks ago. complaints appeared in

'ments will provide two air services a week

iwiii operate the lZealand and Australia and between

lservices will link up with a trans-American lservice operated by B.O.A.C.,

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ved to find that there waay had insufficient equipment and even in-! sufficient clothing. The prospects of get- ting those 6 million acres under the plough this year were clearly nil. 1 And then came from Krushcllev himself the more startling admission or accusation that not only the Kazakhstan project but the whole new programme was being mis- ,handled by the "executives in charge," in- ;cluding Benediktov, Minister of Agricul- ture. and Koslov, Minister for State Farms. Krushchev may well be anxious to avert being held responsible for another spec- tacular failure. Once before-in 1949--he launched a great plan for the revolution- izing of Soviet agriculture. This plan called for the establishment of great farms "such as history has never seen.” Agriculture was to be industrialized. The peasants were to he moved from their scattered homes to big new ”agro-cities." When only half completed the scheme had to be dropped. But the personal aspect is of minor im- portance. The important fact is that the new agricultural programme announced six' months ago with such confidence in its suc- cess has proved a failure. The state of Soviet agriculture, serious last year, is this year even more serious. l'nless the down-t ward ”drift" can be speedily checked andi reversed (and how is that to be (lone?) the consequences may he very far-reaching.

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Plans for changes in Colnlnonwealtll air services extending round the world havel been announced by the l.'. K. Ministry oft Civil Aviafton. The Ministry states thalf following the Civil Aviation Conference atj Christchurch, New Zealand, on October Hi and i3, 1953, decisions have been reached on the realignnieiit of air services in which the Governments of the United Kingdom; ;Australia and New Zealand are jointly in- terested. -

Under the new arrangements, Qantas Empire. Airways and the British Overseas Airways Corporation will continue in paral-. lei partnership on the Kangaroo route. Qantas Airways will operate services to the United States and Canada, connecting with B. O. A. C. at San Francisco when B.O.A.C. extend their North Atlantic services to that point. Tasmas Empire Airways will connect with these world routes at both Sydney and Nandi (Fiji). Although pass- engers to and from New Zealand will have ,to change connections at Fiji, new arrange-

instead of one.

The trans-Pacific services of the British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines (owned Ijointly by the Australian, New Zealand and 3U. K. Governments) which were originally proposed are to be taken over by existing Commonwealth airlines. Australia will take over the services between Australia and the North American mainland and these twill be integrated with the Kangaroo ser- vice and operated by Qantas. Tasman Air- ways, which will be owned equally by the New Zealand and Australian Governments, services between New New Zealand and Fiji. It is intended that these subject to agreement with the U. S. Government.

EDITORIAL Sforcs

f. Notes By

This Is the season when small boys stiffer from class hatred. Kitchener-Waterloo Record.

..A hdy we know who Ins been the same age for several yeaar nausea a car leader of being deceitful just. because he set a speedomete- back.-Sheldon (Iowa) Mail.

A pilot plant has been establish- ed in Holland to make fertilizer from sea water. Norwegian and Dutch scientists are working at. the plant. It is hoped to preduce 1,600 tons of potassium fertilizer from sea water during the first. year.

-World Farm News.

Followers ol hockey flee: the game will become extinct because of the roughness of play. But. on the other hand it. might. produce it new game with players incased in armor like knights of oid.-Tor- onto Star.

General "Mike" West, who rom- manded the Commonwealth divis- ion in Korea, recalls with pleas- ure some words he once heard a Canadian officer use. The Cana- dians were on the extreme flank of the division's front: on their right 3 allied unit belonging to another ivision was holding posi- tions on top of a hill. One night there was A flag. and this unit carried out an unauthorized with- drawal. Next morning General West. visited the Canadians nnd asked whether the withdrawal

')'-JBL" mm” Lawrence of Arabia

Wilfrid Eggleston in the Winnipeg Free Press Lruirellce of Arabia is in the his rt-al name. Like Shaw. which lllleral-y ncxvs .'4f.',Il:n. Richard Ald- he llzcr llsed, ll. was a name of lngion, we are told, is bltlllglllglC0li'.S.l.(lllC('. out a life which "will certainly It was four months, not two cause more than I flutter in the years, that Lawrence spent as I wot-E50135," c lstudrnt in Arabia, "and he wore

The same source to bookseller'slEtlropean drcss and brown boots; Sir.-A letter signed by Mcssl's.,bill'.etlnt stirs that Aldingtan wasihe was not. a technical scholar, he Jones, Wctsmann and Company Of rninmissloned to write a lJl0Krll-Yllt"l'P".' learned the Arabic letters. Boston. Mass. regarding Canlledlphy of Lawrence of Arabia "andland his speech was the jest of his lobster prices in your issue of'only realized after months of re- servants; he went on a secret March 25!-h. has befn 01' llltefell search that he was faced with Agmisslon to the Tigris, but not tous. mass of contradictions between to the head-hunters of Borneo." While the letter no doubt. stateaiLawrence's statements and thci ' ' ' a Bostonian truth rather thanlpmven truth." l Graves attempted also to straigh- contalns an inainulltion that P-E-I I have not. seen the lite, ot,ten out the stories about the early I thinners IN receiving l-00 mllcllcourse. and do not know Wl1ell'lDT'edil.l0IlA of Lawrence's work. The I

This column II open to the discussion Ivy correspondents of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondents.

CANNED LOBSTER PRICES

for their canned lobster. we thlnklthe conclusion is justified that "it. first reports said the author's on"- that. your correspondent has lost proves one of our favorite chlld- glnal book was written in 1919, Slllhlr 0! 5 "FY l735lC law lll mt?-lhood idols had feet of clay and,prlntecl on s newspaper press in chandising. We are not going tolwas in fact. as much charlatallioxlord shortly afterwards. not. for Elllbomltf. bill: W? W0Uld 1111016 the as here." ,'publl'catlon but. as a convenience. following editorial appearing in, It. will hardly be. news thatl A ptlojoct. was begun for . rich. the March issue of Canadian Foodimuch of the publicity about Col-ily produced edition, with many Industries Under the heading. "50'orlel Lawrence at. the time of his portrait drawings, "to be publish- Coffe Is up": exploits was erroneous. A Can- ed at, a mu price," That venture

"skyrocketing coffee prices have zidian essayist, Sir Andrew Mac-,1.-.11.,-(1, ,-mp1 to pay me Must, Ln-. not. zoomed off into space withollt. phail, writing as lone, ago as l92tl,;;m;cc publjsherl an abridgementl opposition. Reasonable eonsllnieuannlysed what he called 'the niythil (Revolt. in the Dcsei-ti, ' reaction has been a cutting downlabout. Lawrence of Arabia. There wfre. other stories About of coffee consumption. I-lowever.! ' ' ' a 400,000 word manuscript ”stolen there has been some unreasonable! At the same time he pralsedlin the Reading railway station." TOBCUOII l00- 50mC IZTOUDS in lllntjn the lofliest. language the liter-jLawl-ence then sat down and by country to the south have evenlm-y achievement. of the material a heroic effort of memory rewrote clamoured for a Senatorial Inves-.uhich eve.ntunll,v mu full pub-in, He had ma it printed nn n Ligation into the whole coffee pic-llicalion as "Seven Pillars of Wis-Ineivspaper pi-ms in oxford in an tum Have people torzolttn thatldom." No degree nt "debunkmtz" edition limited to eight copies. basic movlnlz force in our economy? can take away A gleam of zloty A later version said the theft had Does the law of supply Ind dc-,fi-om that outstanding llternry occurred at. Paddington station; mand mean nothing to our peo- masterpiece. that. the material stolen was the pie? We are told, and are too far? The story of Colonel Lawrence only copy of the authors "200,000- from the growing areas. In check in Arabia urns given first to t.he,word manuscript. the journals he l1ersonnll.v.that in killing frostlwof-ld through the sllowmallslilpdmd kept, faithfully, and many combined 1Wli.lg carlefillllly ccingollledinf Lowell Thomas, who didj i'l,h1storical documents." Iltlelxea n razi, ave e nail-lollywood treatment of his sub eat world coffee market short. 'I'here;under the title "With Lawrence lsnit. enough coffee to go around in Arabia.” lit. the old price. so the price goes? some of the absurdities of this, up and the demand slackens nff.lt,reat.ment. were exposed by R0- The higher price stimulates more hart, Graven in 1927, jn ,. ho.-,1; tn. Dl'0dUCl-l0ll- The lllililllf KOCH llltllitied ”Lawrence and the 'Arabs." The price comes down. The Hdc-tsir Andrew Macphali lists some mand increases. is there aomet. ing,of the corrections of Graves. In weird or awful or sinister about the first place. Lawrence was not that?"

His friends, said this account. prevailed on him to rewrite the book. The author then printed six copies of the book on a hand- press in the Epping Forest. Of these a "few were presented to friends, and one copy went to the .British Museum Library to be lock- lcd up in a vault for forty years."

L A spokesman for Mohammed Naguib says jthat. the Egyptian president "bowing" the people's will should remain in power and that the election of the promised con-T stitutional assembly will be called off. it would seem to be not so much a case of bowing as of cutting it dead. I O I The late Harry G. Southam, who until a year ago was publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, made many contributions towards Canada”s all-round development. Chief, of course, was the great newspaper he publish- ed and which has been carried on by a son,

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We think that this sums up thry CT L”"'” m”t So much for the accounts be-

DUCK!

When God had finished the stars

and the whirl of coloured, suns turned His mind from big things to fashion little ones, Beautiful tiny things (like dalsieal He made, and then He made the comical ones in case the minds of men Should stiffen and become Dull, humourluu and glum: And so forgetful of their Maker be

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to take even t.hemaelveauser- loualyl

Caterpillars and cats are lively and excellent puna:

All God's jokes are good-even the practical ones.

And as for the duck. I think God must have smiled a bit Seeing those bright eyes blink on the day He fashioned ll.

And Hels probably laughing still at the sound that came out. of

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the details of publication.

No doubt Richard Aldlllgton will straighten all these matters out in a reasonably final way. Not, perhaps. that it matters much. Nothing we could now learn about William Shakespeare would alter in the slightest the value and impact. of the great. plays.

Lawrence of Arabia's part in the military campaigns of World War I may be reappralaed and set. in its perspective, but it is impossible that anything Aldin-gton will write will dim in the slightest the ills- tre of Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

The Way I.

had been carried out. in good or- der. ”Good order!" said the of- ficer to whom he had addressed himself, "They came down that hill so fast their cigar-butts look- ed iike tracer bullets.”-Strlx in The London Spectator.

Americans spend twice as much money for alcoholic beverages as for education, charity and religious purposes combined. Hardly a re- cord to be proud of. Put it this way: Americans spend 811,000 a minute for alcohol. They spend 35,- 500 a minute for all schools, church- es. welfare agencies and charities. If we spend twice as much for drinking, it may be, time to do it little thinking.-Wisconsin Agricul- turist. & Farmer.

Science at last. has gone too far. has overstepped the mark i.I the production of'n water pistol which will propel a thin stream 0. liquid with such velocity that it will penetrate four inches of quivering human flesh. The atom and the hydrogen bombs were all very well, but this seems just too much. When one thinks of the devastation of which sub-teen. agers are capable already with the ordinary water pistol. nothing short. of n shudder will express one's reaction to the concept of such a pistol. Despite the best efforts of the FBI and the RCMP, tommy-guns nnd automatic: find their way into the hands of those who should not have them. It seems inevitable that these super- wnter pistols will eventually be marketed. There'll simply have to he s ls-.w.-Montreal Gazette.

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WINNTNG BATTERY

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"We are pleased to learn from the last. Canadian Militia Gazette that No. 2 Battery, G.A., ha; 5. Rain won the general efficiency prize in competition with all the batteries of the Dominion. making 13.5 marks out of a possible 143, The inspection was held by Lleut. Col. Irwin in August last, The competition consisted of manual and firing exercises. company and run drill, discipline and interior 900ll0m.V. and the examination of officers and non-commissioned of- ficers in question pertaining to nrtillery matters.

"The officers and noncommu- sloned officers are: Captain, J. A. Longworth: Lieutenanta. F. W. L.

Moore and John H. Bell: ser- '1t'RnlS. Thomas Dover, Augustus Down and A. Alley: Col-pm-513,

Albert H. MacNelli, K. E. Prowse. and Lewis Coffin."

"No. 1 Battery, 0. A. did splen- dld work so far as they went; but owing to the absense of two of- ficers. were unable to compete successfully."

-The Examiner, Oct. at. malt:

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Which one of these three. think- eut thou. was neighbour unto him that fell nmong the thieves? And he said. He that ahewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him. Go, and do thou likewise.

PROFESSIONAL

CARDS

Dr. W. R. Carson

situation better than we could re-. careful of our soil. It is all wt-tfore Graves. sir Andrew summar- gardlng the prices of merchnndlsel have, and it must. support. us. Can lzee Graves version as follows:

lwhether it. be coffee, canned loh-l nothing be done about our weeds? "The original book was entitled ster, or potatoes. All over this Province there is n,Seven Pillars of Wisdom; the first

I am, Sir. etc, Lfearful in:-ss of weeds and evmvlciglit. chapters were stolen: they Charlottetown. weedleas field is A great. triumph prm-ted. and afterwards published - i made in recent years. vl7.., the ag- The lore was 510,000. and it. was the United States and the meal Graves went. on to say (in 1927)

S. ll. EURHOE. Mtzr.l now and then, I see A new wee were rewritten from his diaries: for the farmer. in an edition of one hundred copies ricultural re.source.1 of the Ama7.on,i.n repay this loss that Revolt in M Wlllfh lt -llllllibli l0T Mzricul- that Seven Pillars of Wisdom would

THE WORLD'S IIUNGEII.

Sir,--There was an editorial panel mrtoon in Thr Guardian of Marchl

20th, that. is painfully suggestive

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