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Homing Dally (Founded in i881) Authorized u Second Clan Mall. Pout Office Department. Ottawa.

PreuldeaL Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President. Was. l. III-nest; Secy.-Trenu.. G. M. Burnett; Editor and lounging Director. J. B. Burnett; Associate Editor. Ireak Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Irilr."

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1987

flog Production Costs

The barley-hog ratio is often used as a measuring stick in determining whether or not hog production, on the average, is profitable. That ratio simply means that number of bushels of No. l feed barley which is equal in value to I00 pounds of Bl hog, live basis, both at Winni- peg prices. The long term ratio, recorded over nearly thirty years, is 17.4. ln other words, on the average for that time, l7.4 bushels of barley were worth the same money as I00 pounds of live Bl grade hogs. Today the ratio stands at about ZlJ. Barley is cheaper in relation to hogs than on the average and it is increasingly profitable to sell barley through hogs rather than as cash grain. lf bacon prices are again advanced $2.00 per 100 pounds on September lst, i947, and presupposing that barley remains at about present values, the barley-hog ratio at that time would be about 23.3; hog production at that ratio would show a very substantial mar- gin over feed costs. The prices of $27.20 for bacon and $20.50 for hogs at Winnipeg are good strong prices and the September price would mean that a Z00 pound grade A live hog will be worth about $35.00 at Winnipeg.

Discussing this subject in its current let- ter on livestock production, the Industrial and Development Council of Canadia Meat Pack- ers has this to say:

"lt may be a nice question whether Can- adian hag producers would want to see Britain offering to the Danes and our other potential competitors more than the equivalent of the September price of $29.20 for bacon. ‘The Dan- ish bacon industry can be maintained at its pre-war peak only by the importation of large quantities of feed stuffs and concentrates. Much of that feed comes from Canada arid the Argentine. lt may follow that if bacon prices were to go high enough, Denmark could again come to"Canada for the feeds with which to give us very damaging competition in the Brit- ish bacon market.

"Recently Dr. L. E. Kirk, Dean of Agri- culture at the University of Saskatchewan, ad- vised the formers of his province that they would probably be far better off in the long run to be feeding large quantities of grain to their own hogs, for export as bacon to Britain, than again allowing the Danes to monopoli that market with hogs fed largely on Canadian grain. Anyone who takes into consideration the risks inherent in a program of straight grain growing in Canada will agree that Dean Kirk has offered good advice to Canadian farmers."

B. ll. Proposal

The British Columbia Legislature at its last session set up a special committee to bring in recommendations regarding an amendmgnt to the Elections Act that would pave the way for compulsory voting. The committee, among oth- er things, proposes to impose what amounts to arr identity card on the people of British Colum- bia. It proposes that every person over 2i be registered and _that he.be issued a registra- tron card. This card, it is suggested, will identify him as u citizen entitled to vote-or if he has no vote will show that he hos none. Besides, say those who favor the plan, the card will give the authorities the means of checking the movements of all adults in the province.

_Grave danger is foreseen by the Vancouver Province in legislation of this kind. To carry through an electionflproperly, of course, a reg- ister of _voter_s is necessary and it is desirable that registration be as complete as possible. A card identifying a voter may be a perfectly in- nocent bit of machinery. But a card that can be used to check the movement of citizens may be not only a nuisance but an iniquitous con- trivance and a means of interfering with per- sonal liberty. ary:

"Why should the authorities have the means of checking the movement of anybody? What business is it of those in authority where a person moves or what he does as long as he does not violate the law?

"A registration card that c" l}. tum“

bto an identity card—-one of the efficient bits,

of machinery of the police state-and that can be used for’ checking movements and snooping rrito peoples affairs and pushing people about is something Canadians can very well do with- out and would be well advised to insist upon doing without."

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Dealingnvith forest resources and the pulp end paper _industry the January Letter of the loyal Bonk says Condda’s is one of the maior industrial enterprises in the world. It has a world-mile reputation for quality and depend- ability. _ roni the standpoint of capital invest-- ed, ll’ far the largest industry in Canada. It il_ first in employment among manufacturing industries, first in total wages paid, first in

Alpert values. first in the net value of pro- ‘ dustioii.

It is _the largrst single industrial buy- er goods and services. lt provides the prin-

_mond in some cases, the only, industrial

_ of many towns: in‘ Ontario alone there pll-sorno 20 thriving towns that were Built and flbfiwolnfairiefbiyfllii Ontario pulp and paper Industry, It ls o ' substantial contributor to

Adds our Vancouver contempor-'

wood rises 22.0 per cent timber, pulpwood for export, and miscellaneous prcductd 34.1 pp

cent, and fire, insects and disease takes 26.0

per cent. Yet so vital is the continued supply of its raw material'that the pulp and paper in- dustry has done more on its own in the way of forest management and more in the way of developing the forest for use in perpetuity than all the other users combined.

- EDITORIAL NOTES -

The irreplaceable part that daily news- papers play in everyday lives was amply illus- trated during a newspaper strike in Hamilton when 50,000 telephone calls flooded the news- paper office within l2 hours of the commence-

ment of the strike. i

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Mr. MacNaught associated this Province with Sorel, whose newly elected member second- ed him in moving the Address, and we are told that Mr. Cournoyer bowed his acknowledge- ment. We trust he will further enhance the compliment by insisting upon the Simard people delivering the Car Ferry here, as soon as ice conditions make it practicable. Six years, even in time of war, is a long time to be deprived of a dependable means of transportation be- tween liere and the mainland.

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Sir Arthur Keith, F. R. S., M. D., C. M, F. R. C. ,S., LL. D., British anthropologist, born this date i866; educated at Aberdeen and Leipzig Universities; President of the British Associa- tion in I927; Lord Rector of Aberdeen Uni- versity, l930-33; now Master Buckston Browne Research Farm for experimental purposes. Pub- lications include: Human Embryology and Mor- phology, Antiquity of Mon, Concerning Man's Origin, New Discoveries Relating to The An- tiquity of Man, Darwinism and its Critics, Men of the Stone Age of Mt. Carmel.

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Federal Progressive Conservative Commit- tee chairmen have been appointed for the ses- sion. MaL-Gen. G. R. Pearkes, V. C., member for the British Columbia constituency of Nan- aimo, has been appointed chairman of the de- fence committee. Gordon Graydon, member for the Ontario riding of Peel, again named party expert on external affairs. Other chairmen sel- ected were: John Diefenbaker (P.C., Lake Cen- tre), Justice and Dominion-Provincial Relations committee; Col. A. J. Brooks (P.C., Royal), vet- erans‘ affairs; Mark- Senn (P.C., Haldimand), agriculture; Arthur Smith, (P.C., Calgary West), labor; J. M. Macdonnell (P.C., Muskoka-On- tario), finance and taxation; Joseph Harris (P.C., Toronto Danforth); John R. MacNicol (P. C., Toronto Davenport), natural resources; Donald Fleming (P.C., Toronto Eglinton), social security and housing; and Howard Green (P.C., Vancouver South), reconstruction.

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In the death of Mrs. P. W. Clarkin this ,Province has lost one of its finest poets and citi- zens. As "Lucy Gertrude Clarkin" her contri- butions over a long period of years to St-. Dun- stan's Red and White, as well as to variousoth- er publications including The Guardian, were read with great appreciation and were invari- ably of a high standard, both in style and con- tent. Mrs. Clarkin's modesty was such that she though little of her own talent, except as a vehicle or the expression of her deeply re- ligious thoughts and aspirations. But she had a well-nigh faultless ear for versification, and might have gone far professionally had her am- bitions vbeen of a literary nature. She was de- votedly attached to her home and family, and it _is naturally there that her loss will be most keen- ly felt at this time.‘

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Hon. James G. Gardiner is still in the running for the succession to Mr. King, and is offering strenuous competition with the C. C. F. leader in the way of "leftist” policy. Speaking on "The Nation's Business" at Ottawa he told the big corporations of Canada that the pro- fits which were not required for their busi- ness were "not your profits" and thus were liable to taxation. “They are the money of those who applied their labor to the natural resources of this country to produce wealth, and if you do not or cannot pay them-out in wages, local taxes, widespread dividends-—share or pa! ronage-to provide services, then we must tax them. The money so obtained must be redis- tributed through provincial payments to the areas-from which the wealth came." Where local authorities could not, as in the case of family allowances and old age pensions, make the distribution equitably, the Dominion Gov- ernment must do so, said Mr. Gardiner.

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The British House of Commons, debating Newfoundland’s nutritional and health position, was told by A. G. Bottomley, Undersecretary at the Dominions' Office, that the former Canadian naval hospital at St. .lohn’s had been reopened and that construction on a 250 bed sanatoriiim would begin on the island's west coast next spring. Focal point of the debate was a Domin- ions' Office report on Newfoundland nutrition, prepared by Dr. D. P. Cuthbertson, director of the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, who visited Newfoundland in i945. Highlights of the report were suggestions that Nwfoundlanders should keep and eat more of the fresh fish pro- ducts they sell abroad, that they should in- crease. their agricultural production and learn to like darker-bread-all for the benefit of their health. Specifically Dr. Cuthbertson recom- mended: l. Increased milk supplies which would do more than any other foodstuff to offset the effects of malnutrition. 2. An 80 per cent extraction flour with either synthetic piboflavin or food yeast incorporated." 3. Use of o wider variety of fish products, preferably in the fresh state. 4. Restoration of the large herds of caribou,- whicli formerly found ample pasture on the island should be studied. 5. In- creased vegetable production. In reply ta a questioner, Mr. lottoniley said Newfoundland’s sterling debt wiis £l9,072,546 ($76,290, 04) and

from three to three and e half per cent.

Its dollar debt was $5,004,100. Intent ranges "

THE CHARLGTTETOWN GUARDIAN‘

llotos By The Way

Psychologists are studying ~tlie

phenomenon of people dr ' in color. ‘That's nothing. A fellow sleeps ln the mom above us who dreams with sound effects. -lWlnd- sor Star. In the “good old days‘ we hurl shirt; wlth tells, two pairs of pants per cult. no income tux. nlcs "elxhbors, road shows. purusols. ihe Western Fblr, private enter- prise churchgioers, home-grown vegetables, a house to ourselves. time and faith. hope and charity. —-London Free Press.

Unemployment in Brlluln lust year never exceeded 2 1-2 percent 0f llle working population-and only 2,101,000 working day; were lcsi through strikes, n; compared wllh 34,483.000 10st for that reason in the year after the First Great. War. These figures do much to ex- Dliiin the success of the present British drive io develop ihe export trade. —Otiawa Citizen.

A new rule ls In effect on rall- WBYs entering and leaving Shang- liei. Pa-iSfllilells may not carry more than fen cattle; of cinrency iipiece. A catiy ls equivalent of one and a, third American pounds. The Shanghai Evening Post took ex- ception to ihe rule in an editorial, stating iha-t a passenfler star-ling out with only ten ciilties of bills on hlm migh go broke and have to resort io washing dishes lo pay

Tribune.

for his food. -New York Herald- I

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~ CANOPUS When quacks with pills pollllcul would dope ue. Whmdpolltlcs absorb the

l1. I like to bhlni about the uiur Cun-

llvelong

opus. So for, so fur uwuy.

Greatest o! vlslonea- suns, they say who list, 'em;

To weigh it; science ulwsys must despair.

Itii shell would hold our whole din ged solar system,

Nor ever knorw 'two.u there.

When temporary chairmen utter speeches,

And frenzied henchmen howl battle hymns, _

My thoughts float out across the cosmic reaches

To where Canopus swims.

their

I When men are calling names and making faces, And all the world's ajar, I meditate on interstellar spaces And unoke e mild clggr,

elangle and

For after one has had about a week of The arguments of friends us well as foes. A slai‘ that has speak of Conduces to repose. -Bea'i Lesion 'l‘al'1°1'-

no parallax to

The best check on excessive in- 61133595 in miml’ of ihe items iiaw feleflsed is the stimulation cf com- peiitive production. Indeed, ihe whole value at what has been done, so fer as price siubllliy is Concerned. depends on how speed- lly other materials can be releas- ed, especially many of the rz-w and semi-processed items basic to ihc production of ihe wide range of consumer goods. —Toroni.o Globe and Mall.

We ln this country, for senil- meniol rather than realistic rea- sons are inclined to ihe belief that the Chinese people as a whole love us dearly and are grateful for ihe aid we have given them. Un- doubtedly the Russians tee] that the Chinese Communists are body and soul dcvqied to ihe ideokgy of the Soviet Union and be depended upon to follow t Inc as, laid down by ihe Kremlin. What. we overlook-and what we should not forget- is that underlying ihe surface in millions of Chinese is a dcep anti-foreign feeling, whcihcr ii be directed against the United States or Russia or any other country. Arid that. feeling is strong 1n certain leaders. —Provldence Journal.

There are three chief solution; by which llic chasm between low in- comes and minimum cost housing can be bridged - raising of the levels of low incomes, reduction of delivered cost for building of homes, or some form cf subsidy to supplement rentals, or purchase payments. In ihe present. outlook, achievement. of the first two goals is not an early prospect; and the idea of subsidlzation has so far met wiih a. notable lack of enthus- iasm ai all levels of Government. But there is such a basic Dfabiem involved that it cannot be dismissed as insoluble. It should be regarded rather as o. continuing challenge to ihe construction Industry, gov- ernment policies in all spheres, and in social conscience. --Momreal Gazette.

A recent study of unto accidents brought out, as its salient point, ihe fact. that three-lane highways are the most dangerous on which to ride. The accident rate soared sky high 0n suCh roads when any considerable volume of traffic was encountered, well above that of the two-lane highway and actually three times higher than ihat of the four-lane road. The lesson in this for road builders is io get away from ihe three-lune highway; where- ever possible and for drivers to exercise extreme caution on such roads, particularly hi making use of the middle lane iiiat apparently causes all the trouble. -Bosion Post.

A cat-rate wedding war tn New- port, Ky., one cf the State's Gretna Greens, where zwlft marriage cere- monies are made possible. finds cne cf iwo feuding marrying Justices promising couples wedded by hlm not only a feelcss ceremony. but. e, $5 pireseni; u well. 11ml. he would hold his business" prestige. Today, the results of hasty mur- rlagcs, ‘particularly those of the Gretna Green variety are helping lo swell our divorce volume. That's usually the case when the (limit-Y of marriage is lpwered. —Bosiori Post.

Cough}. up oii other choral. countrymen are likely lo be found ln orchards on mild winter days. trunmlng trees. sriye The Minne- apolis Star-Journal. With sew end pruning hook they remove extru-

frult and thi-lftler branches. It's satisfying iwork. Results show at once against the sky and the Jun- uflfy thew i; g promise that event- uully uprlng will come.» The time lu good. too. for taking the dead‘ timber out of shuae trees end shaping them. with folluge gone. the grey frame-wink of oelr, elm and maple stands revealed for the iree surgeon's attention. Ascend- ing their wpe ls thrilling adven- iure. conquering for iti; inomen ihoee gluntu which mingle ihel branches with the clouds.-

ure curler to cllaib then oth But ea occasional maple, growl

neous growth to promote better

~Once-. . I Was A Real Turtle"

(Montreal Gazelle)

Through several pages of Mac- Jean's Magazine. Hon 0.0. Power mourns ihe charge and decay which he sees all around him in the Lib- eial Parry. As the Dean of the House of Oammonis, he lacks through the retrospect of 30 years of Par- lianicaiiary tide and sees how ihe mfg-lit of Liberalism has fallen. To hlm the spirit 0f Liberalism now scams like that of a fluttering candle. But he believes that there was once a day when ll. was a beacon shining on the hills.

Certainly few would dlsmite yvilh Mr. Power about all the things he says are wrong with the Liberal Party. It i5 quite iriie that ihe pariy is frying to move simultan- ‘cously in almost every conceivable direcfon. It l5 true that it tries lo offer someihlng to everybody, even lf Peter is habitually robbed to Day Paul. It is irue that ll. lack; all coherent pollcy and moves along by patchazg the shreds of its iii-Zn- ciplcs. It ls irue that it is neither forthright. hm virile. but. has be- come a “mlddlc of the roitcl com- promise with reaction and social- ism." l. - .<

Yet. the questionable part of Mr. Power’; vigorous moimilng is whe- ihcr ilie present defects c: ihe Lib-

al characteristics. Times change and issues change, and ihe things that. are compromised today are not the things that ‘were comprom- ised yesterday. But w-as there ever a day when the Liberal Party was not "travelling in the ditches of expediency, fa-si Right, then Left?" Dld the ihlng ihat Mir. Power mourns ever have real existence?

Mr. Power believes that Canadian Liberalism has become top vofe- cotchaig ln its methods. It ls high time, he urges, that it. cease to neglmi principle-fer the sake of oppcrtunism. It must recover frcm its office-holding man's. “In short," he sa-ys, "we must fight with all the fervor of inspired men, pre- pared to accept. whatever verdict the electorate may pronounce. .. ."

Yet perhaps some may doubt whether li is really, characteristic of Canadian Liberalism to cast aside all caulon and compromise and to cling i0 princlple alone. Cerrialnly, lt. has not been charact- eristic of ihe long regme of Mr, Mackenzie King, whose period of leadership nearly coincide; wiih that of Ml‘. Power's membership in the OOIIIITIOIIa.

In deed, Mr. King ceeme io slt rattler awkwardly upon Mr. Power's Liberal consccnce. Ills article ls sprinkled with pnahe for Mr. King's capacities, and at one posit he de- clares ihe-t he should be induced to continue as Liberalism’: leader. Yei. he believes that Mr. King needs nothing so much as a stiff lnjeclbn of principles. "No party in Canadian history," he says. "has had the benefit of such oopoble and adrolt leadership which Mec- kenzle King has given h‘s follow- ers since 19w. That isn't MI trouble. Our trouble ls that we don't know where; we are going."

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Mr. Power acclaim that "Cuna- dlun Liberal leaders in the ill-l!" —unrl among these he stlll . ‘udeu Mr. King - "have fought unre-

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only glln from trimming uwuy uriessentlul branches. The- wood- box ls replenished -ait once. Long dead, some of the boughu use ready for the fire. Rabbits benefit ll well. At night they gather to feut

tender twigs. In the morning Kc bruuti pile ls circled by their

cral Party may not be its fradlton- .

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(All Ill.) DE HOMES AMDITIONI A; we travel slang the south can‘! from Sourlu toward Ctnrlottetmrn, we came to I. boy la-to wh-lch flown iihree rlvcrl. the Brudenell, the Montague and the Cardigan. In 1m Loulu XV had granted lance drained by these three el-reuns to

worth remembering is Joan Pierre de Roma. The other three were in.- teresbed only lxi profits OI the fish- eries. Roma, energetic, Inpatient of control, unpopular with hi; sel- fish associates, full of fright ldcas that were sometime; la advance of hlu ago and place. pushed hls pro- jects with such determined vigour that he might ‘have succeeded in at least some of them if the dice of fate had not been lauded against hlm. One o! his minor schemes wee to establish e brewery at Trol; Riv- leres (m deoinell Poldt.) for brew- lrig beer from the excellent barley itiai grew upon his cleared lands. lle proposed to ship his beer to ihe French West Indies, and bring book to his Island settlement the sugars and coffees of Martinique. To further this scheme he demand- ed that the Compan of the East send hlm bottle-m srs from France. And his ii§oclates icld hl.rn angrily that he was qulle mad. In 1745 a raiding party from Nev Illnglarrl destroyed the buildings that had been put. up with such care, and carried off his livestock. All flint. reimalns today is "a soli- tary depression in ihe level surface of Brudennell Point" t.o remind vs of one who, long ago, dreamed am- bitious dreams that came to