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Morning Dally (Founded 1n 1887) Authorized as second Class Mall. Post. Olleo Department, Ottawa.

President, lon A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. k Burueat; Seep-Trees, G. M. Burnett; E0110!‘ I10! Managing Director. J. B. Burnett; Asoclato Editor.

hunk Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker TMM the Weakest Ink.”

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 19-16

0ntario’s Example

The Ontario Government is setting an ex- ample to other provincial governments by re- fusing to hide behind the skirts of its Milk Board in the current controversy over milk prices. It has token the direct and, in fact, only satisfactory course in appointing a Royal Com- mission to inquire into the "production, pro- cessing, distribution, transporting and market- ing of milk, as well as the prices at which it should rbe sold." This action follows an order of the Ontario Milk Board increasing the price by three cents pcr quart.

Procedure followed by the Milk Board was challenged by Mayor Saunders, acting on be- hc-lf of Toronto consumers. On investigation of proceedings, the Government found that the board did not act strictly in accordance with provisions of the Milk Control Act. The board has no authority to make a price-fixing order under Sectiop four of the act, which it did. lt may, however, make such an order under Sec- tion fifteen, providing it has the approval of the Government.

Clearly, the Government could not give its approval to an order of this nature without be- ing fully advised on production and distribu- tion costs. Presumably it considered the in- formation on which the Milk Board acted was not adequate, hence the appointment of Mr. Justice Wells as a commissioner under the Pub- lic lnquiries Act. It is to be assumed that the investigation will be thorough and it should establish a reliable basis on which the price of efficiently produced milk may be fixed, with a fair return to both producers and distributors. lf inefficiency is discovered, or if it is found that actual production and distribution costs do not warrant the increase granted, remedial action can be taken.

"By its action," says the Globe and Mail, "the Government has indicated that it is pre- pared to accept full responsibility in fixing the price of milk, not leave it to the board. But it cannot possibly say what the price should be without first being possessed of all the facts. The inquiry should net take long. lt is the duty of the Government and the parties concerned to facilitate the work of Mr. Justice Wells. For the most part, it will be a matter of collecting and correlating information not difficult to ob- tain. Within a few weeks the consumers should know whether they are being charged a fair price, or too much. lf the latter is found to be the case, the Government can be expected to take appropricte action."

Nature's Soapsuds

The recent shortage of soap has been very disturbing to present-day housewives and they are busily hunting suitable substitutes. lndians and woodsmon of the days gone by relied on Mother Nature to supply their soap and were seldom disappointed. The fact that nature pro- vides all the essentials of life is sometimes for- gotten because of the ease and convenience with which we are able to obtain our needs. Even today in some parts of Europe nature's soap is used on washday. This soap is pro- duced by plants.

The most common soap producing plant is the Soapwort or Bouncing Bet. lntroduced to our country from the Old World many years ago, her clusters of scalloped-topped pink and pro- fusion almost everywhere. When used with warm water the juice of the Bouncing Bet makes a thick, soapy lather.

Wild Lilac gives us a scented soap that leaves the skin soft and fragrant. There are several members of the Wild Lilac family called "buck brush" that are found in the West. lt is the blue, sometimes white, blossoms cover- ing thc spring ccuntrysidc lilac a blanket that produces the scented soap.

Another SCop plant is the Spanish Bayonet or Yucca. In this case the root is used. After cleaning tho lore: root-stock of dirt, it is bro- ken in piezcs. Then when needed a piece is crushcd, plec:d in water and swished about un- til a thick lcfher larnrs. lt lcnvcs the skin fresh and clean and liufr salt and lustrous.

These are only o few of the ma‘ ‘ plants nature has provided for our use.

Australia's lflenzies

One of the notable things about Australia's general election, which returned the Labor Gov- ernment, was the poor showing made by the Liberal party's leader, former Premier Menzies. Menzies, a brilliant lawyer (Viscount Bennett once said that if he were in London he would be one of the loaders of its Bar), is admittedly one of Australia's greatest figures. Politically, however, ho scsms a spent force, incapable of prevailing against lesser personalities.

What is the answer? Most likely, suggests the Ottawa Journal, in the fact that Anglo- Saxon peoples are often distrustful of brilliance, a truth supported by ample evidence. Winston Churchill, probably the most powerful intellect that politics has known in generations (the late John W. Dofoe described him, as "the greatest man of our race since Shakespeare"), was long in the wilderness so for as public support was concerned, was retired to the wilderness when his war services ended. And so with Lloyd George. Likewise, we in Canada rejected the services of two men who, intellectually, tower- od over most of their contemporaries-Bennett and Moighen. Of Bennett's talents, and Nloigli- on’: there wos never doubt. Bennett's grasp of public questions was enormous, ond he wos luccmful imbusiness and law. Moighon was tho

greatest advocate and debate: seen in Parlia- ment in generations. Yet neither of them pos- sessed that common touch which attracts the multitude, passed, so far as leadership was con- cerned, into oblivion.

Menzies has often been likened to Ben- nett. Gifted with physical presence, a great orator (as those who heard him in Ottawa o few years ago well know), he has about him a touch of aloofness, impatience at dullness, in- tellectuol arrogance. They are things the pub- lic dislike. The public—-perhaps it is a pity- prefers the sort of political leader who can coter to the crowd, who is sensitive to prejudices and passions, who knows all the slogans and cliches. lt is not something of which any of us can be proud. For democracy needs all the tal- ent it can find.

.- EDITORIAL. NOTES a

The British Labour Government is spread- ing its wings to take in the Dominions and Col- onies, as well as to extend its influence by friendly diplomatic relations in foreign capitals.

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Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ‘have both recently successfully floated new loans to cover maturing loans, and to provide funds for great- ly increased facilities for provincial develop- ments. ln this case they are both looking be- hind ond forging ahead.

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The Mackenzie King Government becomes quite masterful in demanding that Dosca pay in- creased wages, whether or not they cap afford it. lt is for them, seemingly to collect the dif-

ference from the consumer, or die in the at- tempt. . fl * fi Franklin D. Roosevelt once said: "The rais- ing of the standard of modern civilization

among all groups of people during the post half

century would have been impossible without the

gpreading of the knowledge of high standards

y means of advertising." i ‘k 1’ fi

Sir Henry Elgear Taschercau, Chief Justice of Canada, born this date i836; called to the bar in i857, became Q.C. i867, sat in Legisla- tive Assembly of Quebec for Beauce County from l86l to I867; appointed Judge of Su- perior Court, Quebec in l87l, and o Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada in i878, becom- ing Chief Justice in l90Z, and administrator of the Government in i904, retiring from the bench two years later; was created o Knight bachelor in i902, and a Privy Councillor in i904. He was the author of several legal works; and died in l9ll.

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Farm prices, along with general price levels, will continue to rise for about a year, then settle somewhat and remain stable for prob- ably. a decade, says Earl L. Butz, professor of agricultural economics, Purdue University. He advises leaders of the Farm Co-operative Move- ment to operate at practical capacity, get out of debt now, tighten up efficiency and ovoid needless risks. With the "inflation dollars" of the present, rising levels of debt can be dis- charged for substantially less than their orig- inal value, he believes.

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As a memento of the Sixth Imperial Press Conference in England, the Kemsley Newspapers have issued an artistically printed brochure in- cluding articles written by various delegates. A foremost place is given to the contribution by Senator Rupert Davies, of The Whig-Standard, Kingston, and it is worthy of both the writer and of Canada. lt was originally published in The Doily Despotch, Manchester. Another Canadian contribution is from the pen of Mr. Floyd S. Chalmers of the Maclean-Hunter Pub- Iishing Co., Toronto, which appeared in The Daily Record, Glasgow, setting forth the im-

pressions post-war developments left on the minds of the visitors. * i‘ W i To celebrate its 75th anniversary, and

featuring the resumption of daily publications, The Daily Times-Gazette, Oshawa, has issued a special souvenir edition which reflects very creditably both its editorial and mechanical effi; ciency. The issue consists of 42 pages made up in three sections, fully illustrated and beauti- fully printed. Congratulations are due to the President and Managing Director, Mr. A. R. Alloway, and his assistant, Mr. Thomas L. Wil- son, on again venturing into the daily field, after four years as a tri-weekly during the war. The prospects are roseate for developing a good

circulation in the busy industrial territory in which it is located. i’ "I * Leaders of British womcn's organizations

have shown such an interest in the idea that women should be called upon to share with men the responsibilities of citizenship that a res- olution urging that young women be subject to conscription will come before the annual meet- ing of the leading womcn's organizations of the country this week. A resolution urging a vote of approval for the proposal has caught on to such an extent that it is expected to be a major issue at the gathering. Miss M. D. Woodward, an official of the council, said "that there is a strong feeling among our members that, hov- ing asked for and obtained the status and privileges comparable with those granted to menn, women should be willing to accept also a period of compulsory notional service." i‘ 1F 1l< =l<

Wearing Highland dress and preceded by a piper playing "The March of the Cameron Men", Colonel Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel, K. T., C. M. G., whose ancestor rallied the Highland clan to Prince Charlie when he landed at Moi- dart, walked up the High Street of Edinburgh on a Saturday recently and opened the loan ex- hibition of Jacobite relics and Scottish antiquit- ies, then being held in the Tolbooth-St. John's Church, Castle Hill. Lochiel said that he was a little surprised that he should have ‘been asked to Edinburgh to open the exhibition, because Edinburgh was not exactly Jacobite in its lean- ings at the time of the ‘"45". Although its nat- ives certainly flocked to the Court of Holyrood,

he was afraid they were fickle in their affec- tionr.

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Notes By The Wag

Mt’: lee. Raincoat. straw hut, rubbers. whlte canvas shoes, red flannel underwear, overcoat, white 310111101 1101130118. oowwestcr, ear. muffs. Yep. rum we're ready to go out 1n this delightful P1111 wen. ther. -—Wlndsor Star.

Evelina 11111111: a no joh for a weokllxig and a sissy. ‘I'm; flghgy. mian Ls entitled to a good retum for his efforts. And those who “"0" 1310 €00l1ness of Nova Soo- lHP- wallow will look iforvmod eagerly to a gmd meal of them. A genuine scallop ls unequalled as seafood-and a curse be on m; heads of tihose commercial estab- lishments who out up skate-wings wlh a cookie-rubber and vend étligm as "scallops"! -J-!altf-slx Her.

In an article 1n the London Sun- day Dupatoh, Professor C. E M. Joad British philosopher. spook. hunter and mdlo pundit, wrote that he would rather be poor in Itngla-rid than zirh Ln the Domin- lCiT-‘i, because he found the conver- sation of almos: all people from the Dominions mflng arid their company tedious. “may seem to me," wrote Joad, "to be ungrqwn. up children I don't. mean that they are not; as nlce as we are. I dare say they are often nicer, but they have no knowledge or! books and music and they have no faculty for the bcindln8 of ideas . ."

Scottish scenery la flne, but hu- man nature (m. Scotland» ls finer. Put enough lrust 1n people and tihey will justify your faith in lhcm. says The London Graphjc, Or. that principle, a Crasglow Scot, named Lang. started a restaurant '10 years ago. It. 1| still running successfully on that. principle. Lang has raver had any waitresses. Never given any bills. His customers serve themselves at his counters. assess the amount of their bills themselves and pay the cashier. who never questions their honesty. In 20 years there have been. only three his-fiancee of imderestlmatlon of amounts.

The Eire delegation to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Or- ganlzotlon which convened at. Cop. enhagen. sprang a surprise request on the assembly as it woo being constituted. says The Sydney Post.- Record It was that their country should be named "Ireland" and not “Eire" in the Engllslulanguage texts of the conference records. No reason was given for the change. a-nd many will think none was needed The name "Ireland" traditions of its own in the 11mg- llsh-speaklng vrorld.

A contractor who ls trying to oom- plete a bulldlrq project of 25 new. homes before the snow flies, found himself forced intro the black market in quest of nails. He was Willing to offer the operators $1.000 above the regular price for 100 kegs of nails, flxln8 $9 a keg as the regular price. The $65 a keg quotation struck his plens a heavy blow. especially when he reallzed that prices on the black market are firm and the manipulators equal to the task. After all they have the nails. A sczixclty exists. and 1f the builders uant them badly enough. they will pay the price. —lvlon.treal Gazette.

Henry Ward Beecher. the fam- 011s preacher, an»! Robert G. Inger- coll. the agnosllc were warm per- ccrnl friends- although of course, they disagreed or rtellzktll-S 111101018 and especially on the question of the creation of the universe. A friend of the preachers presented l0 him a beautiful celestial globe. showing the sur. and moon. the planets and the stars. It was a wonderful piece of work and In- gersoll admired lt greatly. He asked

Beecher: "Who made it?” “No- body" said the minister. "It just happened." —"Make ‘Em Laugh

Again" by Charles N Liurle.

The country's railroads are ‘l5,- 000 freight cars short of weekly demand. This moans that each week a pile of available merchandise large enough to flit a train stretch- ing from Washington to ChlCBBO l5 iron, moving. 1' constitutes one of the grcalfit obstacles to full pro- duction and recovery, and no relief ls ln sight. Builders of freflght. oars with a yearly capacity of around 170.000 airs have tum-ed out. 26.- 000 so far in 1946. They have had to cope with strikes, the five-day week and 111':- twl-n shortages of lumber and zleel. Two and one- half tons of lumber and 16 tons 0.1 steel go ti-xo th: new box car. The present mic of new car output (loos not cover the rate of obsole- seer-Cl‘ of cars In service. Fnom 26.000 cars sent to the Junk Pile in ‘43. the mmber rose to 51.000 last your Cal's Wll/h a IO-Ybar llfe expectancy are iriow kept lzn service foi- 30. with maintenance costs ris- ing in‘. geometrical proportion. In the ltdusirlal community that. de- jionds for life on the stale of its arteries u ‘ls idle to speak of an overnight return to health while this sclerosis Pehslsts. —Clhlcago New.

HERO Like llvpsv rovers, questing n11 day l ng In streaks of tangled jet and auburn ou . Across the meadow land with joy- fu song Went forth the barking dog and llitle g 1. They ran with truant. step along o space Enthrglled; sklpplnr. hldlfll. ploy- n Whlle clhasslng iridescent wlngl o! la In breaileiles; laughter, up onothor hill.

A glegm of polished metal skidded w ce. Carcenlxig. oereoohlnt. elomplnl brakes too late Au death had set a ‘fearful. final r e For sulirh n careless. needless speed- ng rote; No one could oay the dog wu just

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By Thole Gwn Orders

‘ (By I. N. 8- of tho Journal Staff.)

Tho Nuremberg judgments will ndonco that had been sub- hold no surprise for those who mmod by the pmaeombn had run witnessed the trial or read clooel into the thouomrl . 0f all those the evldaioo that was brought oral only two had been comer/tied by 1mm its beginning away book 1n the German defence counsel as November of 1946. mot. bdng- ouchecule. And by for

When I was in Nuremberg ln a greater amount of tho 10 months June of this year 1 conducted a was Mm up by ddw than bv poll of officials and observers and 11105001111011- wmvte that at least eleven of the I can oeo snw those German 21 would dile. Twelve have been omlnsel. dl-Bl-lnthllflmd 10031118 sentenced to new. mern Ln their long robes but gaunt

‘Ithey will be hanged by their from the years’ toll. ‘They spoke own documems and by lost Jmw to a. hushed unrrt. ‘may had all Sufficient of those documents mu u...- nrlvileem of m: premiums been produced Ln court. to reflect alwmlyfi- 'I‘1’10y 001110 lill-emllfl- the wrlurig an the wall. The They wild chimi- judges have simply applied the dispute ‘Prlbiuial rulings. They recognized principles of justice no could win doololons lm favor substantiated evidence. labout. the admissibility a evi-

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ence. In June several guessed that‘ Behind them n the box sat their Fritzsche and Von. Papen would 21 miserable c ems; 1n front of get. off, butt somehow l1: was them sat the eight. judges; and thought that Sclucht would face, around them in fact. and theory o sent-canoe of perhaps ten years. sat. a watching vroirtd. woo n. All tlhroo have been enameled but spectacle of civilized justice not one notes the report says that before paralleled. Gearing Schacht. sot bolt. upright in court cio Monday of ttils week he was when hls aqulttal was ar-nounced surprised the judges would "go —appa.reoitly he too was surprlsedjihroiugh all this to ki-ll us". On reporters the other hand, they also went will be happily Weed uipoin Ls 11112011811 all those 10118 1110811101115 that. the Tribunal did not accept to free three of them and give Hess’ bluff of insanity. 'I‘hooe who lesser sentences then death to watched hlm dev afte: day fr. the another sevein. Goerlng no doubt. court concluded he was queer was juisllfled ln being surprised indeed but - not too queer to by both aspects; it was a type 0! punish. In giving him "Life" and Justice he had forgotten and that not. the gallows the Court. has a most of Germany had 1018011811- parreintl- bowed slightly to e Maybe Nuremberg will help l0 re- lir-samo ut not to the point where store it. Hess‘ amfulness brings reward. G

All the sentences may Yet. be. Our Fonflgn pohcy From The Letter Revlew

reduced (but not increased) in‘ the event of roiccessful appeal to the Allied Cantu-oi Council, but‘

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I talked with the British proflcnmda mum.“ on mm“- Sh’ Dav“ Mum“ “mrlternotlonnl nulgonce; refuslng to and 0mm m9 w“ give“ P clarlplay with our more powerful 011-90181‘ l0 P01111151‘ "Tum-Sm ma‘. friends. A true nationalism on the ‘he "151 W“ faking t°° 1°“? Th9. part of Canadians would be realis- NBZ-l 1955*" We"? bell“! med m? tic; would lead to this country be- 00005 ‘that Wm 01mm“! 0W1‘ a lng indifferent to the unimport- quaner of o 081111111‘! 3-110 5°!‘ 499415 ant outward symbols of indepen- mfl-t T101100 111E W°T1d 5M0 me dence- would not contain, as most 810M051- 0011111161 0f hlSliOYY- 911D" Cone lan “nattonallsm" does to- DOse it did take I- yrf"? 1310111 day. so much of an lnferlorlty 08595 111 0101119117 CORT“ fTWWnl-ly complex. so much fear that other bake much loc-zer“ "We d use peqpje may not realize that, we are 5111111111’ 1110 Slmnfl hand 11-1111 an independent nation. punish" said one “but we have fought the war in tlhe name of The Flnt World War ntrred u: justice and must therefore asoes to some military effort, and the respect gained by Canadian arms