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TIIE BIIAIILDTTETOWII GUARDIAN TTTTTMTHITFAuyTIrJbEaZJ '11. first) Authorized l8 Second Class Mail, Post Office Department. Ottawa. , President, Inn A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. It. Burnett; Seep-Treaty, G. M. Burnett; Editor and

Managing Director, J. R. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

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

MONDAY, DECEMBER.

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Quebec fly-Election

December 18, Quebec is holding o Provin- cial by-election which is of much political sig- nificance. The vacant riding is Bogot, which, as a Liberal seat, the Union Nationole Party

of Premier Maurice Duplessis is making a deod- set to win. With the whole question of Domin- ion-Provincial relations in the forefront, what l the voters of Quebec do for or against Mr, Duplessis is an important yardstick. l

The Quebec Premier is about the staunch-i est provincialist in the country. Should his can- didate be defeated in Bogot, it will be a set- back for his view. Should the'Union Nationale capture the seat Jrom the Liberals, the Prem- ier's hand will be strengthened. Mr. Duplessis, has already had the encouragement of such tri- umphs in the recent post. His party won thei by election in Beauce, when the Bloc Populaire; dropped out. More recently it captured Comp- ton, which wa: traditionally Liberal, on a straight "centralization" fight.

From the electoral record Bagot is not so strongly Liberal that it can be regarded as im- possible of change. At the last general elec- tion in that Province, the Liberal candidate won the seot with 3,781 votes to 3,654 for the Union Notionale oppodent. The Bloc Populaire polled only 479 votes. ln I939, also a general election, the Liberals won with 2,183 votes; the Union Nationale received 2,004. lt was a two-party contest.

The forthcoming by-election is likewise a two-party affair. The Liberal candidate is Dr. Roland Bailly, a thirty-six-year-old physician, and Liberal Leader Adelard Godbout is personally leading his campaign. The Union Nationale candidate is Mr. Daniel Johnson, foremrly a member of the Quebec Film Cenror Board.

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All kinds of technical training is being subsidized nowadays but the next result, so for as Canada is concerned, remains unsatisfactory. According to the Canadian Council of Profes- sionol Engineers and Scientists, a dangerous point has been reached in the emigration of trained and efficient scientific engineering per- sonnol. The higher salaries offered, especially by United States concerns, have drawn for too many Canadians south of the border. Emigra- tion of native-born Canadians, most of them of the scientific or executive types, is alleged to have reached a figure as high as 30,000 o year. The Council suggests that Canadian industry must take advantage of the lifting of controls to increase salaries of their trained personhel. lt also wants "more liberal methods" of train- ing, through establishment of post-graduate work, evening classes, scholarships and facilit- ies for research and experimentation.

"All these things," comments the Halifax Chronicle, "are no doubt highly desirable. The question, however, remains as to who, or what institutions, are to provide these widened fac- ilities. Universities almost everywhere in Con- ada are already over-running financial ability to provide laboratory space and teaching staffs. That attention must be given to making adequate provision for budding scientists in these and other specified ways is sufficiently obvious. What is not so clcorly seen is that, under present con- ditions, Conodo is running the risk of lasing her scholars in the humanities also. The human- ities ‘do not thrust themselves so obviously into our daily life as do the sciences, and especially the applied sciences. Yet they provide the backbone of our thinking.

"When mechanics and skilled workers in a variety of lines can now earn more than n col- lege professor, who is going to spend the time and money to follow academic pursuits? How are universities going to maintain their stand- ords if the pick of Canadian youth goes canny and selects the jobs that demand the mini- mum ol training wh‘le offering the greatest fin- ancial rewards? We are not only liquidating our middle class. Though at present university enrolments ore swollen, that condition may not last, and we may be entering a period when the pursuit of learning, unless it is highly subsid- ized by the Government, may be limited to the eccentric few ivho see no particular value in money as such.‘ Then we may find ourselves a notion of wage-ervnersrwithout the technical personnel to lead them."

World Wheat Situation

‘It is when one looks at the wheat situation by continents that one realizes how impossible it is to control either prices or production for any length of time. Interesting figure: in this connection are cited by Senator T. A. Crerar, formor Fuderal Minister of Mines and Resources

i and for twenty years president and general man- aggr of the United Groin Growers Grain Com- » way, in -a series of articles appearing in the

inning‘ Fred Press

Srnalor Cruror’: figures reveal that in North America during the war years than has been ‘ I vary considerable‘ increase ir|_ production in 19“ as against glho average produced in the

. ' ' ' our parted, 1935-39. In Europa. due to tor- Amputation by tho war, production do- roatlp, African production was ap-

lio some, some light‘ million bus-

ln tho five-your parlod than utimotod

---A|lc increased its production mr

portal. whorl! America was down Jul lb Th! difficulty of got-

ducer, to tho markets of tho world. Australia and New Zeolanil combined were also down by some ten million bushels as against 1935-1939.

The totals for the world show how quickly wheat production can come back. The five-year average of world acreage was slightly in excess of 414 million acres; in 1944 that had dmpped to 377 million acres. In I945 it had increased to 385 million acres, and in 1946 to over 405 mil- lion acres. The average production from 1935- 39 was 5,914,000,000 bushels. In 1944 that had dropped to 5,650,000,000, in 1945 a further drop to 5,150,000,000, accounted for partially by the fact that Canada in this year produced only slightly over 300 million bushels. The estimate of production for 1946, however, reached 5,- 875,000,000. lt is a safe assumption that in 1947 there will be another substantial jump up- ward in world acreage planted, and if climatic conditions generally should be favorable, there will be another sharp rise in the total amount produced.

Senator Crerar emphasizes that wheat can be grown in every country in the world, and that the present level of prices will mean, inevitably, increased production until the weight of pro-

.ducti-m brings its inevitable decline in prices.

“This," he odds, "is simply the operation of the age old law of supply and demdnd. lf all the wheat producing countries in the world were unde’ dictatorships, and dictators could meet around o table and agree between themselves who would sell and who would buy wheat and how much and at what price, the law of sup- ply ("Id demand could probably be put in cold storage, but this is not likely to happen, at any rnte for some considerable time."

And o good thing too, so for as the con- sumer is concerned.

- lzDlTORlAL NOTES -

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The late trains for Christmas came operative from today—both

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This date is notable for three important events. In I714, George Whitefield, a Colvinistic divine of great dramatic talent, one of the early leaders in Methodism was born; in 1770, Beeth- oven was born; in 1773, the "Boston Tea Party’, American revolutiog pyreluirleutook place.

The Supreme Court bench will not be the some to court habitues now that the pictures- qve ‘fiigure of Mr. Justice Arsenoult will be missing. He sat in the Appeal Court on Friday far tle lost time, and will.go into retirement on the lost clay of this mgntfl. 110/68 f0! lllellffi

A hint to our Legion and likewise to the City Fathers. The Federal Government hasnauth- orEzed the cenotaph at Ottawa to add 1939- 45" to the years 1914-18 inscribed on‘ the cenotoph at Ottawa. The City Council of. Montreal at the instance of the local have authorized the some addition to the ceno- taph in Dominion Squfre;

It is announced that Prime Minister Mac- kenzie King has been elected on honorary bench- er of the Honorable Society of Grays Ill"- Gvay’: lnn is one of four British Institutions dat- ing back to the middle ages wlllfill ¢°llll°l file education of law students. All lawyers eventu- ally become members of one of the inns, which hcve complete disciplinary I power over ‘their members. Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt received similar lllllllilllfmems l“ Gray's lnn. '

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l! was bound to come. Exaggerated claims mode of the benefits deriyed from vitamins. Prof. Leongrd A. Maynard. dll§§l°l 0f U"? c?" nell University School of Nutrition, told a meet- ing of the New York Section of American Chem- icul Society are doing more harm than good. Pro- fessor Maynard said that over-exploitation of dis- coveries in the field of nutrition mrsleods the public and retards human physical betterment- The exaggerated claims of the benefits from vitamins, soils, coil treatments, "lfllle-"l "lmlwl" ing methods and from other nutritional factors have led to unsound food practices that have resulted in embarrassment to the true nutri- tion scientist and have hurt the cause of nutri- lion, he asserted. "

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Mr. Fiorello H. La Guardia._ W50. l'°l'"_ h“ experience of New York political machines, shoulil know whereof he speaks, ‘bIIfEIlY attack- ed the United States’ attitude toward foreign relief, He contended that the American des1re to permit reshuffling of U. H. R. R. A.s_remoin- ing shipments constituted “bread Pllllll": "I'd wo all want to avoid that." Russia, Poland and Yugoslavia supported Lo Guard1a's position lllflf all U. N. R. R. A. programs be completed un- changed. These countries all stand toueceive purl’ of the nearly $700,000,000 lll illPPll" ‘Illa’ U. N. R. R. A. has yet to ship. The American delegate, C. Tyler Wood, insisted that members had the right to disregard tentative U. N. R. R. A. allocations to various countries ond'in- stand ship supplies and food originally destined for them to other countries that needed them

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Our telegraphic news last week referred tlg the U. N. O. condemning»: illegal "genocida- That is an unusual term little or ever heard of in our new: column. "Genocide is o crimu under International Law which the civilized world con- demns, and for the commission of which _pri_n- cipalr and accomplices, whether private indiv- iduals, public officials or slatosmon,_ond wheth- er the crime is committed on religious, racial, pnmieql or any other groundsflare. punishable. The crime of genocide is a vyplirhon of Inter- national Law for which oven private iirdrvrdul- oh" may be punished, the legal committee of the United Nations General Ammblv 501114“- Tlic decision was containad in the committee's unanimous approval of a resolution proposed by u subcommittee. The resolution, noting that "genocide in I denial of the right of arimncc of sntlro human groups, as homicide is the dr- rilal of tlu right to llvo of individual human b0-

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Notes“ By The Way

Science has made another Ioup forward 01' maybe upward would be better. By latching a camera to a Geuman V2 rocket, pictures of the earth have been taken from sixty-five miles aloft. Ilbrunately, the 111m survived the inevitable smash ut the flight’: end. This good luck gave the world photographs of whut. looks like an oblique stucco wall o1" an Llnderdone pancake~Detroit Free Press.

One of the dangers of motoring lhlter dark is that of running into riders of unlighicd bicycle» und there are many of them. There is a very real danger, particularly when lnl-‘eting an oncoming motor- isi, that the dark cyclist may not. be seen and struck. There are for too mBIIy of them riding after dark without headlights and many or 111cm even without rear reflectors. lllollkh both are sutlposed to be the rule. I1. ls m be hoped it will not be ncoessircy 1o record serious no- i-idents before cyclists realize their v-vn danger. —N1agarn Falls Review.

There uhoulrl be stricter tests of drivers before permils 1.0 operate an ziutcunobile are ISSUCII. One has 1o show good cause 1o have a per- mil l0 curry a revolver. Yet a re- volver is nol nearly as dangerous 1o society as a 111.0101 cur, because 1111c vpportuuitieq for its use are so IIIIICh fewer. Gripples with one 111m. with one vye. vvilh defective llvlllifls‘. 11nd otherwise incapacit- iued c1111 be 56¢" on the streets and highways driving thirty to seventy miles an hour in powerful mach- mvs 1111111111118 llIl to two and 1hre¢ tons. —Cha1ham News,

Day for llmnestlc em- _ _ has risen 1o camper-e favorably with that of woman tact. ory workers. the supply cf 11011513. hold workers is still critically short. Accord-n: to a report by the New York stole commissioner of 13hr‘.

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‘lUClIlI-Z "1011: ivomeu to cnler l11= field of (ICIIIIESIIC ivozk is the ‘social - iima‘ attached lo its owing my... 1y 1o the misconception that (lam- cslic work is unskilled.” Long r1":1 irregular 110mg; make this an "1 . desirable field of i-mploymenl '1‘ 1o comimssiuner presented n f]\c- 1101111 msg#11111 for improvlir: 111i: siluzilicu: 111 Devr-lopmcizl oi‘ sul- 1sfa1_".01jv c111|1l.1_\n1c\.:11 . 1111111115; ilhlleallli measures 1 curling ]7(‘1'-‘ iortic hrgllh 0141111111. o11.s_ to pin-n’ leci- warkrr.» l1‘1‘1|l1 111112111115 dis- l‘ Y t 131 lien] .~.11guav<1.\, similar. l0 1‘.11.s<- for ' 12.11 wcr; _; l4)‘ public c 110.11,». (m 11w “mm-i status v1‘ l1c11 iiOlCl rmploywncnul

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151 n 11':\itl.““ program for both l workers and i-mployers, ‘Toronto l Slur. J

Anon‘ ‘cal of rr gross {as teen 111_:r.e 1- 1. e \v:.1~1c;‘ since :1 \v.11' was foug-hi 111 11. CGIIIIITv which resulted in fasten- ing opium on Clhina. No uobivlly of tho League of Nations achieved more success and won more i-om- 11161111111‘ ‘.1 yuan its [IYOQTIUII for 1111611 011111 control of 11111111125. It 1121s now been volotl 1o transfer this ncilviiy 1o u Commission on tfamolic Dru-gs of the Untied Na- ::o11s. Ncnv and more difficult, pivo- LLGIIIS confront the new commis- son. The essem-e of its task is ihe control of raw materials, wh-Ioh is octnplicatcd by the facts that cool- tar substitutes have improved. that mephine can now be processed dir- ect from the poppy, and that many aounirieg feel on eocnomic neces- sily for rmroducing morphine. There is not yet a general acceptance of the A-gnerican thesis that all ojifum production must be limited to global needs for medicine and, natural 10101109, The prcl-rress made in in- iernalionol central even during the war years, honvever, gives hope of achieving n unified international strategy. ~-Cl11‘l'istl8.n Science Mont- 10f‘.

Drhydratrd costar olI may sound likr- boat news for children. but aet- udlly 11 means more paints of oer- ioln types, says Science Service. I11 dehydrated form. oastor oil 1s Iiclping relieve the shortage of tong oil from Chino. Normally unsuit- able for palnts because of 11.5 non- drying qualities, dehydrated cas- Lor oil 1s ncw veplactng the still- marcc tang oil in points. Varnish. lacqucr and paint, industry chemists have found that as El. paint grinder the wetting quality of dehydrated caster all makes 11 superior 1o lung oil. In Iiighty specialized baking varnishes. caster oil has rePl-aoed 11mg oil satisfactorily. The highest tyDe of imericr enamels 111111 mill whites are also including casior $1 becnruse of its non-yellowing ch11 - actvristlcs. Industry actually 101k r-astor oil out or the medicine cah- 1M1, long ago and iurnrd 11 1o 1m- noriant. uses. Some of these labs for the classic dread of children include usese In lubricants. dyes. yam softeners anti-freeze products and plastics, But lmtll the oll was dehyrlrnted, 1t was considered un- suitable for paint; or varnishes.

FARM WIFE

She never climbed n. lnounlutn, She never hum the bee.

‘But always watched a winding road That wandered aimlessly

Among unahaxied mead _ A fawn, a pasture. rtfe.

with Black-eyed-Stinns love) news Comprised her lltflg Ilfe.

she never longed to travel,

She felt no urge to ualoh.

Her longest Journey the five miles On Sundays to the clttlmh;

Yet, 1n her quiet dwelling,

In ulnwllll. signing flow,

Como love. and parting, birth and

death. And all that wanan know.

PUBLIC- FORUNI

Tbll column in open to the discussion by corre- spondents of question: of Interact. The Charlottetown Guardian doe: not pooelur- ily endorse the opinion of orreapondenta. Q4§O@-O-O-0§4900-&O+O

JUSTICE TO LABOR

$1r,—I luve observed two sig- nificant references to “Labor” by topflighf Canadian bankers n1 te- cent days-one in your own col- umns and the other in a news- reporl of the annual meeting. I quote: (for the benefit. of even one reader who may not have H3911 these vital 50119111611191

(a)—“I prefer 1o think of Cana- dian labor as the same people who were so largely responsible for 1111s Dominions spectacular uar- llme production records and vrho made lhelr c attribution. too fir‘ the front line. These are citizens who Wllm a better life for themselves and men children. They wunfiio look to the future free from the fenr of unemployment. They do not ivanl another war. I11 all these things they are no different from their fellovrCnnudians. Nor only org their interests similar Llwy are inter-dependent." lFrom the presidential undress of George W Spinney. 129111 annual mreting, Bank of Moptreal).

(b)-“In my judgment the -n- come of the farmer 1s not commen- surate with the labour of the farm- er. . . .Acco1'ding to» 1119 latest esti- mates, the total farm labour tome. making up one (iu-zrter of 111,11‘ na- tional labour force, is rewarded by no more than one-sixth of the nu- tlonal income. It 1's possible that the relief the war economy brought to the farmer may prove to ‘w only transitory and that 1t wi-c war shift of thr- n-"tionnl income to the other econom’r rrvnups will continue, This would Iiarrlly do

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justice 1o the f:\"III;\1"° ccmrlbu» lion 1o 111:- !“1'lf)l1.'1‘ wraith" "ITcr-‘i H“ “Yes” 11‘i:11 address of R. S. “‘ . 121111 annual moeti-rur. In:- " 1'21 Bonk of Cannon). I am, $11"- FREEDOM FRO!“ IVANT.

WHITHER ARE IVE DRIFIING?

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Si1'.—1"c1' 11s many yr-nfs lmik ns I c- 11 Hunoinhvr- I Imvr- heard and rcarl of 1110 lamentations of our politicians, our sclio airs. our churchmen. and our B11111‘: nvrn 1'11 non-po-litir-al fraternities uric-ping and ivaililig over thr- exodus of our your»: pPDpIL‘ from 1111‘ "may "N! from I113 Province. This 11112111119 srrztegy- has-not been productive bf

‘auv Visilllf‘ results thus f1‘?

The exodus r-onllnuos. And While Q[||‘ Plergy‘ 0111' S('l1l!"lBl'."< OIII‘ SC‘- vii-c club and Board of ‘P111110 mem- bers, and our politicians avg 1'1“1'.1~ in: nwoy lhciv tears it mi-zilt 11o! he rut of ovdcr 1o prr-sz-nl h"fi"l)’ 1hr» Viewpoint of those .0 NIHITI thr- future state of Prlnw Edward Island is most, pertinent I nr-nn the younger element of .1111’ p0!)- \1l'1ion especially" on farms. 1"The olrl man may weep fsl his tomorrow, which i5 lost in 1on3 ago.“

It seems that our most out- standing problem concerns our relationship with the Dominion of (tonada (or Dominion Govern- ment) because all other problptns of health. education, on‘. depend upon a satisfactory settlement of our just claims at Ottawa. The wr- markoble fact. is. not that we lzrive a problem. but that. our public ‘men seem not to be making any he-tdway in solving 1t, We all must sometimes wonder why the nations of the world cannot settle their differences more quickly and peacefully; why strikers and em- ployers cannot, reach agreement. Yet right here on our own door- step is a problem that seems no nearer a satisfactory solution than it was seventy-three year: ago

One explanation is this. Except for export, we have not produced

Why? The treneflcence of our system of electing men to public office can he called Into quenzton. When we have need for personal medical care, for a sore toe or a decayed tooth we mink-.- cautious mqulry r-onrternlng the creden- tials of the doctor we consult. This is equally true as regards our choir-v of a shoemaker or block.- smllh. Yet we entrust our political destinies to men whose only rmsun for election to office is that they were good lPlmWS to have around lo 11ft a cow or tn skin a r-nlf.

The result ls that today, we have men 1n Prince Edward Island. 1n Ottawa and across Canada, lab- oring on budget dellverles who would be doing their country a much greater service 1t they had remained at home to help rome- hody‘! old grey more with her de- Ifvory. These misfits W0 find III every department of government. 1n income tax offices. In employ- ment offices. on ration boards- men who seem to have a controll- i-ng monopoly on Ignorance. An the explanation 1s that many are polltloat appolnteeo-upyrolnted by mtn who ttrernrelver were elected 'to office because o1.’ a misinformed and apathetic electorate, .

Blr, what bur played hrvoc with our provlnclnl gnd national. eco- nomy l: that we have attempted to make poltttcnl economists out of tlyore whom nature hart m- tended 1o be barnyard 01mm- rlclam.

Rue Ir what Mr. Hamming hp: 1o soy-on the mutter: ‘W0 longer have we government by the poo- pIe or for thg people but rather by intensely selfish par-titan n-a- chlner. From start to flrilsrh r11 nomination. rollcltlng of votes, Olecttoneerlna. forming oLoabIr-ru. and clandestine uuoun méetnip. we are under the rule of’ political