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

MONDAY. JUNE l4. 1943-

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An attempt is being made once more to reani- mate lltc dettd corpse oi Maritime CIllOH. As on other uc "tsinns, the pruposztl emanates from _\'uv;t Scott. ;\ writer in Th‘ Qtlfluok (.\li<l- dlcton, .\ 9) rt t s that s-mie years ago Prime .\litu.~ter King stiggestetl Maritime lQn- ion tn n dclijgzttitttt which waited upon him to discuss llztritmie rights and grievances. Mn King didn't get far with that suggestion then, and he hats tievcr tuztde i: since. It is put forward now us" nu economic, industrial and geographical panzicezt——\vith the einphztsis, of course, on Hall- fax as the idcul capital, The same paper reports a public meeting at which Maritime Union was discussed, favorably it would seem, by a gentle- naan referred to as Principal D. B. “right.

This antiquated issue was, we had hoped, dis- posed of finally by the llcwvcll-Sirois Commis- sion which itiqtiired fully into its prOs and CORS- The Cottnttissittti reported that the savings to be achieved b_v llnritztne Union would be largely imaginary, and gave its reasons. It also noted, as highly signiiicntit. that “each of the Premiers of the Maritime Provinces, when requested by the chairman for his opinion on Union, was averse to the proposal rind expressed the view that there was no large measure of support for ililaritinte Union among the people of the three provinces."

The Commission report was submitted before the war, but nothing has happened since to render this portion of it out of date.

Scope For Dehydration

Here's a. thought, now that we are dehydration- minded. It is from the New York Times:

“The dehydration process cannot help giving rise to the wildest notions. One can think of so many things besides food where valuable space —and time—could be saved by pumping out the water. There is so much public oratory, for in- stance, where all the nutriment could be stored in a. very small part of the original bulk. There are so many government reports, so many law- yers’ briefs and court opinions, so many blue- prints of a new _post-war \v0rld. There are so. mlny huge new novels; and in their case the wonder is all the greater. People keep on tum- ing out 1,000 pages of fiction at the same time I15! thoy have been trying to dehydrate Charles makers."

British Socialism Toda)

» Further striving evidence of the backward Iid isolated character of Canada’: C.C.F., says the Financial Post, came in a recent speech by Herbert Morrison, now member of Britain's War Cabinet and long one of Britain's out- Handing socialist spokesmen-

The political gospel now being talked by Mor- rison certainly is not old-line socialism. And with the Morrison policies, as reported in The Economist, London, many believers in the sys- tem of free enterprise will find themselves in qgrcement.

Canadian Socialists, generally, still preach the gocialism that was the vogue in Britain 40 years ago. The reason probably is that some of our leading Canadian Socialists were born in Bri- tain; many tnore of them were educated in Bri- tain; hence both groups have been nurtured on theories or got their cdtication from theorists who reach brick directly to titrn-of-the-ccntury times, In lllc United States, the Socialist party has virtually disappeared as an influence in na- tional :ift'ztirs, inziitily because of the difference in sot-in] “m1 QQOnOllllC conditions between this side uf the Atlantic and the other.

Mr, .\l0l‘l‘l>f\l‘l set forth three principles for fu- ture policy as rcpnrted by The Economist: First. tl1c (l(‘\'l'll|l)lll('lll, b_v the state and its citizens,

of “:1 spirit nf effort, initiative and adventure." Secondly, the rcplztcentent of fear by faith as the nation's lflslvlllilt-lCr, and third, the ruthless

abolition of rt‘\ll‘l(‘lli'lll and monopoly in the building up of the nation's wealth. “We must turn our bucks f0r‘<\'<‘r on schemes of restric- tion. of goods n!‘ of labor."

Mr, Morrison went on to point out that en- terprise need not be llrivatc in order to be en- terprise and need not be public to be socially valuable and progressive. Mr. Morrison leaves : big sphere where all the community need call for is “proper business practice and decent working conditions."

Says The Iicouotnist:

"The foe above all of future plenty and pro- gress is scctionztlism; Mr. Morrison in his speech denied the sectional claims of producers, whe- ther entrepreneurs or xvorkcrsulnstead, there is tiecded .1 policy to make the real national in- mute as large as possible and to distribute it t itllinitg the population in the fairest and n-iost efficient wtrv. This involves, as the Minister said, a izrtiioiinl income policy in place of a treasury policy. lt involves an economic and industrial budget to take stock of the nation's entire re-

to cast up financial ways and means. Only by these methods can the full capacity of this

ed Canadianism."

lions, as Canadians. phenated Canadianism. Our new citizens don't want it and we don't. In the United States they do not speak of President Roosevelt as a Dutch- crican, nor of Mayor La. Guardia as an Italian- America. They are Americans. Let us in Can- ada be Canadians."

able place in the living cost index for prices of fruits and vegetables is not being it is being given careful study by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics “A factor," a statistics ex- pert explained, "is that we measure food prices on the basis of a representative list of 45 items, and there is established a percentage increase of present prices of different foods over pre-wnr prices of 3o per cent, the same as in the case of

some of these items to the whole in the family budget are: Food, one-third; clothing, one-eighth; again, when estimating the percentages we consider all food percentages,

products. It develops that the fruits and vege- tables represent about 10% of the total food weight. statement indicating some of these problems and some of the efforts to remove difficulties lead- sourccs. lllslfi-‘ld of simply an old-style budget ing toward some check on such prices as com- plained of in Montreal and elsewhere will be

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country be measured and put to use; pnd only by the rooting out of restrictive policies, whe- ther devised by trade associations, trade unions or financial reactionaries, can this be made poss- iblc."

The CCF, suggests the Financial Post, would do well at last to keep up with the current thought and policy in the party of which it is an offshoot and whose word and deed it has been so eager in the past to swallow grccdily.

- EDITORIAL NOTES.-

The League of Nations Society in Canada is using as a front-page maxim on a little pamphlet it is distributing the following quotation from Oscar Wilde: "There is only one thing worse than Injustice, and that is Justice without her

sword in her hand."

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Jerome K. Jerome, English humorist writer, died this date 1927; was successively clerk, schoolmaster, actor, journalist, author; best known worksr-"Three Men in a Boat," “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow," “The Idler"; plays, —“.\‘ew Limbs for Old", “The Passing of the Third Floor Back": "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty work to d0."

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Professor A. V. Hill, the distinguished Eng- ish scholar who is MP. for Cambridge Uni- versity and since I935 has been Secretary of the Royal Society, makes an interesting histori- cal continent. Can recent events in North Africa, he asks, be regarded as appropriate pre- parations for the celebration in 1946 of the first l)ll‘fllll€l'l.'ll'_\' itt British history? That event, of course, is the Roman invasion of Britain in the summer of 55 B.C. It will be a positively poetic coincidence if, just about two thousand years af- ter the date of the lrunling of Julius Caesar at Pevensey, General Montgomery happcnd to laud in ltzil_v.

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Prime Minister Mackenzie King told the House of Commons he could find no record of any communications from the Quebec Govern- ment to the Federal Government On the ques- tion of Czmada’s participation in the war. He was replyiing to a request from Mr. Edouard Lacroix (Bloc. Pop., Beaucc) for tabling of copies of all such communications from August 25 to October 1, 1939. Mr. King said a search had failed to disclose any such communications from the first date mentioned to the present time. "Were there any verbal representations?" asked Hon. R. B. Hanson (Prog. Con., York- Sunbury) "I cannot speak for the whole gov- ernment but I cannot recall any,” Mr. King re- plied with his customary caution.

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Butter production in the Province of Quebec in May at 9,429,880 pounds, showed an increase of 19.2 per cent over the total in the like month of last year of 7,912,868 pounds, according to figures just released by the Provincial Bureau of Statistics. Cheese production during the month amounted to 2,736,996 pounds as against

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Sumo one bu pointed out that ft Ls only alnoe the opening of the Allika Highway that all thls cold has cOme down from the northwest. -Port Arthur News-Chronicle.

Now If‘: chicken coops pent- house style. Hens have been installed on a. mo! 0f u. 1.40s Angeles tip-urt- ment. ‘Phelr wings have been CllDr Ded. too. —Va.ncouver Sun.

Al Clrllso sung, u Pnvlowa danc- ed. u Krelsler flddlecl, as Ty Cobb ran bases, this fellow wlnstoti Churchill can swing the king's Enfr 11511 1H B Speech. Just tops, that's all-Detroit News.

Did you ever hear of a Mexlcnn parrot laylng an egg ln Manitoba? Well, ft happened ln Oak Lake on Wednesday when Mr. H, M. Jones‘ mateless Mexican bird, which lie has had fcr several years, pre- sented hlm with her first eve. No doubt iiell have something to “tall?” about now— Oak Lake News. Man.

A l0! of potatoes are likely" lo be planted this year. In fact. the spud crop ls going into the ground. Po~ tatoes constitute one of our best foods and ff you want to get the greatest good from them em the jackets. A thoroughly washed, link- ed potato ls a real nppetizinu

product and is thorouwhlv rill. even the skins. as out‘ motlw nnd grandmothers knew. -_Le:hbrirlgc Herald.

Owing to war conditions it ls an- nounced that dried apples lllZlY come into popularity acziin. While this mnv not usher ln the old-time paring bee, it will recall to old timers the delicious aroma cmnttnt- lmz from quartered apples strung in many a kitchen for rlryin: nnrntiscs. Dried apples have a staeciztl flnvol‘ of their own, and require no con- tatxiieu-s, eltmctr metal or fz'lnss— Renfrew Mercury

Thl: evening wlll see the first an- pearance of a unique organlrrlon. Occupying a position of l1rniot~ n. the Canadian Women's Army Cofps marches nnst the review-mg: swnrl Will be the mothers of tlu- ls ln khaki. Thev will be there a.» organized group. the first Mr-th s‘ Auxiliary cxf the C W A. f‘. to be formed ln Canada. It is en"" v likely that this will be the forc- runner of mwtiy other .<illlil"l‘ r";- garilzatlons throughout Citllflilll. The opportunltles for servlec. built in attracting recruits and in stumlvlnp comforts to the girls in tmiform are bound to acvpcnl to all itviilwrs. Windsor has agnlit taken the lend in a splendid rrmvemenl which is sure to grow. _-Wlndsor Star

In spite of reverses, Japan re- turns to the attack time nficr nine with ant-like industry. This has been seen not only in the P; ific but. ln Burma, where our force )-

from a dangerous position. Australia wlll be in peril so long ns lhn Jap- anese hold adjacent tslntids of ferri- tory. Yet the people of this tiottntvj; are puzzled by the nnnarsntlv (rm- fllctlng statement which hwvo come from Australia. ospcclnllv sinte (rich imminent mcatmce is f0ll'J\v."cl m

6,679,027 pounds a year ago, representing a de- crease of 59 per cent. During the first five months of this year total output of butter reached 19,469,918 pounds, a. gain of 44.7 per cent over the aggregate in the corresponding period of 1942 of 13,453,070 pmmds. The cumulative cheese production for the same period was 3,786,924 pounds against 12,998,489‘ pounds a year ago. l i I

It i: interesting to note who, in the opinion of the King Government, are nonessential personages in our economic system. By order- in-council they include: Employees of taverns, liquor, wine and beer stores, retailers of candy, tobacco and books, barber shops and beauty par- lors, service stations, retailers of sporting goods and musical instruments and waiters, taxi driv- ers, elevator operators, men in occupations as- sociated with entertainment and in cleaning and dyeing plants; those employed in ice cream par- lors, manufacturing of artificial flowers, chew- ing gum, wine, jewelry, greeting cards, statuary and art goods; _bus boys, charmen, cleaners, custom furriers, dancing teachers, dishwashers, doormen and starters, greens and ground keep- ers, private chauffeurs and porters, other than in railway service.

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In his tribute to Sir lohn A. Macdonald in the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of his death, Hon. John Bracken, Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, appealed for less "hyphenat- “Sir John's first considera- tion was Canada—not French-speaking Canada, not English-speaking Canada, but a Canadian Canada,” declared Mr. Bracken. "We today must have no less high an ideal. Let us look upon all our citizens of whatever racial extrac- Lct us have less of hy-

American, nor of Mr. Willkie as a German-Am-

: a w a It is claimed the importance of having a reli-

ignored and

fuel, clothing and rents." The proportion 0t

fuel, one-fifth; hese of fruits and vegetables. cereals and dairy

It is understood a carefully prepared

new success. To ficht n “c” . campaign ln face of n potential ln- vader while blows are ltifill" sun-k elsewhere is not an easy tss.. We can sympathize with Attstmlin, for this ls a mle we have ottrselves plwv ed for three years. -Dnil_v lvfnil (tendon).

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The housewife who lhinks that ration books are a worry might spare a thought for the retailer. ‘Ihe only thLng that. we have to do ls to remember to take our books with us when we g0 shopping, but. his trouble begin when he takes the coupons out of our books and has to bala"".e them against the 51111131205 he has issued Mistakes ln favor of the consumer do not actually brim: any benefit, for constant loss 0f coupons means a. gradual reduction of sup- pllw of rationed goods which the retailer can secure. Coupons are in effect more valuable to the merm- ant than money, and without his full quota he cannot replace his stocks to meet the demand of his customers-Consumers‘ News.

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‘llhe joy of the men who have come home from Italian prisons has its pathetic side, little as they desire plty. One correspondent writes flint the glum faces seen at the qunyside tempted some to thlnl: they ivere not welcome; and they laughed :1- loud on discovering that the expres- sion came of sadness for their 1m- palred bodies. Thev themselves lmcl forgotten disabilities ln the glad- ness of being once more in Em;