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THE GUARDIAN‘

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ELY-I SE11’: ‘(EJGEZT ETEa-li President Ueut. Col. w. 01mm ‘s. Mcbnre Vice-President: .I. R. Burnett, Full. Secretary: Lleut, Col. I). A. ltlucKlnncn, 0.8.0. Editor and Managi Director: .I. R. Burnett, I-‘JJ.

Associate Editors: Frank Walker and Lleut. Inn A, Burnett, R.C.N.V.ll. (On Active Service)

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

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Economy

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and exlllttlsititl i’) 1mm U1 wlltllmed hlgh taxation.

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er i11 the hands 111' 11111 - 1i1lic and thereforff. by 511111111111111; 111141;, i11v1 se the possibilities of 6111111111-11111111 :11 t:111111..:.11 imlustryz If the

money to stan thrs a111,. 11111.; is not available,

the government l~lreves ‘hat post-War PTO!- peril)‘ 11111 he 112511011: 11-. 1121:1111.

U11 the 11111111" 11.11111, llu-re is a tliametrically‘ opposed 11.11111 of view <le1'el1111it1_; among Can-

adian l1u~i11ess11ten as itillicaleti l1_1' “l’1"0ducer". Their idea i; that the g<11t111a11<nt must re- move as 11111111 a~ 11_~.=.l1_1le of the regulations and controls 11l1icl1 are hampering the free- dom of legitintztte lnisiness. lligh, repressive taxes, for example, such as are 1101v in force, mean that there is very little incentive for any business to a11c11111t e.\:11:-.nsi<111, Arty increase in profits is i111111e1li11!':l_1' wiped o11t by increas- ed taxation. This applies particularly to new businesses and s111all ln1<i11e<~es, both of which are vitally i11111ortan: in a sound economic structure. Remove the controls, and the re- pressive taxa1i<111, and private enterprise will automatically expand to take 11p slack in em- ployrnent.

Canada's future prosperity for the next fiftv years lies in the (lecisions being made now. The decision is whether 2. large measure of state control should be retained. or whether private enterprise should be allowed to carry the load of the country's business. For, taxa- tion such as would he necessary to carry out

the government's proposals would inevitably mean a large measure of control. The tightest control possible is the control of the purse

strings.

Potatoes For Penicillin

United Kingdom scientists have discover- ed two methods of producing penicillin on a tremendous scale. PQlufGC5'-—Ql' even potato peclings-form the lmsis of the first method, which was developed by research workers of the Highgate llospital, in London, reports the British zllrdical Journal. After treatment with water and hydrochloric acid pohtoes have been found to yield an extract which, after further simple treatment, provides a perfect medium for the growth of penicillin mould.

The second method, which was discovered by a young Glasgow doctor, is based on col- chicine-a cl1e1nical which is used to increase growth of tobacco plants. For six months Dr. Gordon and Mr. _l. MCK€'_'h1li(‘, his laboratory technician, have been trying to find an agent which would double the growth of penicillin mould. They have now discovered that c01- chicine produces six times as much as before. Moreover, penicillin produced by this new means is stated to be hardier than any type previously grown.

Export Bacon Crisis

According to the Financial Port, the anti- cipated p0st-1var eXpOrt bacon crisis is loom- ing more quickly than even the pessimists pre- dicted. The other day the first mild cure Dan- ish bacon since the spring of I940 arrived on the British market and competition for Can- ada's greatly expanded hog industry became a reality, Incidentally this event neatly coincid- ed with the recent packing house strike which for a week or more threatened stidden extinc- tion to a $100 tnillions a year export.

It is exceedingly dottbtftil whether the Danes can do 11inch more than ntake fairly large token shipments to Great Hiitain iust now. True, their agricultural industry largely escaped dir- act war damage but for anything like full func- tioning it is dependent on outside cheap feed. Adequate stipplies of this will not be possible until world shipping 1111s iwcn restored tp nor- mal. Token s11f11111cn1= and shrewd publicity, h01vever, can do (‘anrula a great deal of harm unless ot1r authorities take prompt counter nteasttres. To hold a Substantial proportion of ot1r e11'1r1111>11.~l_1' exprintlcd l1-1cr1n market in Great llritaiu we must make United Kingdon‘. cttstfltners fullv familiar with the present situ‘ ation and its 11011111511" and self-imposed hand‘.- caps.

"The 11.101111 111:1: Vauarli shipped to Brit- ain during the 11-111‘ 1:11. says the Port, “was not of the highest 1|11:'li!_v not will it be until much‘ better transport facilities are available. We were forced to expand our industry much ton fast. ilaiu emphasis \\';1s or, volume, and for a while also r111 fnt. llri In ticcdetl fotvl and fat~—dt-lie:1tc flavor anl mild cure were not encouraged, could‘ not be afforded, and would not survive slow and expo-ed war ship- ment. At the express- desire of the British Government wc lmvrrerl our sttuulavls to meet the nc1v eonditimis. lt 1121s 11111 :1. matter of pro- fit but war economics. \rt|1.1llv, nmch of the 1mm" exported i11 the 111.1 four years has been a gift to the Mother (i1111ntry in. jmrtial acknowl- edgement of the 111:1t'.‘lifi*e:rt li:'1"t lwilig put up

ain, now offered fresh, mild cured supplies from a country only a few hours awav. And we must keep on emphasizing them until we have r:- organized our industry to produce a higher type hog and fast transport across the Atlantic again allows us to ship a mild cure. At the same time there is most urgent need for a re-educa- tion of Canadian hog pfOfillCCTS, stressing the vital necessity of new, high quahtv if we hop: to retain permanently a substuntiatl share of the British market. The prosperity 11f a great industry and at least a Quarter of a million of 011r farmers is directly imelved."

Prince Edward lslantl farmers are vital- ly interested in this matter, llcg production in this Province int-raised 14 per cent last year, the total represer- 1v :1 value 11f approx- imately two million c111‘ Moreover, Island hogs graded a higher gtrcentagc of Grade A than any other province, Since qualiiv is to he accentuated in the post-war li1r1tisl1 market every effort should be made by our producers to retpin this enviable prestige.

..EDITORIAL not?»

ltuniania surrendered this date 19-13-

‘ i ¥ A change in the weather would be wel- comed by everybody; one may have I00 mtlfill of a good thing.

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Now the war is over. social activities are to be resumed. His Honour and Mrs. Bern- ard arc leading the way by being At Home this day week at Government H5115»: to receive vis-

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If ever there was justification for the maxim qui s'e.vc11.re, shcrurz, i‘. is to be found in Prime blinister Kingk lautlatiolt of the fal- len hero, General McNaughton. Mr. King 11115 the satisfaction, if any there bc, of having set the trap which General Klclxatighton entered on his return from the front. The steel teeth closed on him, and ended his career as a great soldier, leaving nothing to replace it but the skeleton of a fourth rate politician, despised and rejected by friend and foe alike. The Prime Minister plumes himself with the reflection that “had I not sacrificed McNaughton, Rals- ton would have made mince meat of me.” I U

The new Minister of Defence, Mr. D. C. Abbott is one of the rising rlopes of the sadly depleted Liberal forces in Qttebet‘. representing St. Antoine-Westmount in the House. lle is a lawyer, forty-five years of age, married with one girl and two boys; served overseas with the lVI_cGill Battery in Great War I, and ent- ered the Air Force in the last year of that 1var. So that for his new job he combines knowledge of sea, land and sir forces. He is popular i11 Parliament, and has been slated by the Prime Minister as leader of the Liberal party when he retires before next election.

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Sir William “lallace, Scottish hero, exe- cuted at Smithfield, London, this date 1305', he raised forces to oppose those of Edward l of England, who by craft and violence, had taken military possession of Scotland; after de- feating Edward repeatedly, he in turn was de- feated at Falkirk in July, 1298, and escaped to Holland, where he remained seven years, re- turning only to be seized, subjected to mock trial, and executed as a traitor. What William Tell is to the Swiss and George. Washington to the Americans, so is William Wallace to the Scots. It is true he ravaged the north of Eug- land, and showed no mercy to his foes who had invaded his native land, but it must be re- membered the thirteenth was not the twentieth century; in those days neither Scots nor Eng- lish asked or gave quarter; it was a ease of “le:

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Food products developed for the Army by the various companies are likely to appear in the civilian market before long. Many of these new foods were sampled at the Food Editors’ Conference in New York this month. They in- cluded canned ham and eggs. One was a pre- ceoked rice that, with boiling 1v:1ter and time to absonb it, is as fluffy and delicious as any- thing the best Southern cook could turn out. Others were a canned jellied fruit salad which does not melt at room temperature; various pud- dings, such as pineapple-rice and apple. Among the "by-products" of Army rations are half-a- dozen ‘sauces to be incorporated speedily in all sorts of dishes, and six toppings for cake, the most notable being a raspberry mclba sauce. I i l

An unknown German (says The Times, London), must be given credit for achieving in the war now ended the greatest of all known flukes. One day in September I940 a 500-lb. bomb fell on the British Museum, made one hole in the roof of a room in the Prince De- partment and another in the floor, and ulti- mately came to rest on a loner floor without ex- ploding. Five nights later another bomb, of loo-lbs. this time, fell through the same hole in the roof, some two or three feet square, and then, like its predecessor, failed to go off. \\'as there ever so beautifully symmetrical a record? There is as a rule something grudging and un- generous in declaring that a ball—-or a bmnb- has travelled on the wings of chance. I1 is an accusation too often made in the irritation of the moment. The late Mr. A. J. Balfour (as he then was) wrote the story of an English golfer on a French course who, having laid an approach shot stone dead, turned to his small caddie for applause. The l1oy, anxious to rise to the occasion, used the 1vords that he had frequently heard applied to such feats. And beaming sympathetically on his employer ex- claimed "Beastly fluke!" That story is a warn- ing against taking too hasty and jaundiced a view of an opponent's skill, Nevertheless there is a deinoniacal (legree of accuracy at 1vhieh» reluctant atlmiration passes into iucretlttlity. If that airman were to swear by all that he held most sacred that he 1nd singled out that par-

against the rtgg1'e~s11r<. "Those points must be emphasized in Brit-

tictilar hole we should be compelled to disbe-

Notes By The Way

The Mim- of the nut a that you neednt g-y to remember ho“ Y0“ wlll ll the last time. Grand Rapid; ma“,

Nevertheless, the “n; d” tronlv home o! the futurccnelll be i1“°°‘l"ll°‘° -

oor c . w when Dushedi-Desthrgifufleawsiuiddler

CHIP! worth ($115,159) were grown ln B Ma's royal narks l" the W" Years 1000-1945. They included 70 tons of tomatoes 025 tons of corn, 30o to", of potémes, 275 tons of mangels and swede turnips.

wlll! "l9 approval of Alaska as anotheflstate of the union by see,- TEiBYY Harold L. Ickes, there ls likely to blossom forth s move- men for the declaration of the Yukon and. Northwest. Territories as Canadas tenth province, Per. halls the Eskimo and Indian na- 33211533“. ‘lfll. m” 5°“ °‘ 3”” chilly-Ottawa Clgtzeoii. we pmvn

Among the many strange things fer which Hflllywood ls noted 1111151 be listed the amazing amount of mentally cruel people there. Time and again, actors and actresses discover to their surprise that the woman or man they married ls a sudlst capable of extreme mental cruelty. One ls tempted to won- der lf a llttle blt of ‘good, 01d. lflslllmled Physical cruelty in the form of a hair-brush applied to the Pruner place, might not; dispel these clouds of mental cruelty which hang so low over the film capital, _ Kingston whlgsStandard.

A wlwrlns thought arises from the circumstance that; the Ameri- can crulser Indianapolis should be sunk with suclra heavy loss of llfe after she had success mly carried the first atomic bomb from S1111 Francisco to Guam, the wea- pon that was dropped on Hiros- hima. Call it the hazards of war or what, there ls something in- scrutable ln connection with the swift disaster that, overtook this ship —somethlng which should gyoke humlllty.-Hamllton Specta-

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During the last 12 to i5 years of depression and war, the consider- able increase tn the total accommo- dation available ln Canadian mental institutions has not. been able to keep pace with the much greater increase ln the number of admis- sions. Between 1031 and 1943, the latest year for which statistics have been issued, normal bed capacity increased by more than a thlrd, but resident, population over capac- ity was ten per cent at the end of 1943. Coupled with the increase in mental disease from war, among both civilians and the armed forces this points to the need of an ao- celerated expansion of mental treatment facilities. The progress that has been made ln the recogni- tlon and treatment of mental and psychoneurotlc ailments makes such a program a valuable if not essen- tial ftem for inclusion among post- war reconstruction projects. —Mon- treal Gazette.

The British Ministry of Food has listed the main reasons for ration- ing, with 11 few words of expostttla- tion to queue-weary Britons. Both arc recommended to Canadians who still eat. plenty and don't have to queue for 1t: There ls nothing mysterious about the food scarcity, no one has made the world's sup- ply of food disappear overnight. Not one factor but several natise the shortage. In their order of lm- portance they are: (l) Lack of men on the farms owing to the call- up for the allied armies. t2) Searc- lty of fertilizers ln producing coun- tries owing to lack of ships to carry fertilizers to them. t3) Dlsastrotis droughts in Australia, New Zealand, South America, South Africa and the Caribbean area. (4) Vastly ln- creased demands, because as soon as a man became a soldier he need- ed much more food than needed as a. civilian, and because of large and urgent needs 1n the liberated coun- tries of Europe, where production declined under the Germans. ~- News, Toronto.

News that a Vancouver woman, Miss Bernice Blggs, home teacher for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. ls recovering her sight, 1n hospital in New York, draws attention to one of the latest miracles of modern surgery and raises the hope that; from 10.000 to 15,000 blind persons on this con- tinent may yet have an opportun- ity to see, through the new "corneal transplant" technique. The opera- tion consists of removing a diseas- ed or defective cornea-the trans- parent; part of the outer covering of the eyeball-and substituting a healthy comes from a living o dead donor. It cnn not give slight in every type of blindness, but. ls effective ln the many cases of blindness caused by opacity of the cornea where the rest; of the eye and the optic nerve are normal. Following this and other successes, The Eye-Bank for Sight Restora- tion has been incorporated. With an lnltlal grant of $25,000 from the Mllbunk Memorial Fund, 1t ls undertaking to raise $1,000,000 for teaching and research fellowships, to extend knowledge and skill ln this delicate operation. - Pkom Vancouver Province.

Reading a recent, statement by the head of an important Cann- dlan food concern, we were impress- ed by its references to the import- ant, even essential, part. which had been played by its older hands ln maintaining production during the war years. Quite frankly, this exe- cutive declared that, his flrm could not. possibly have functioned w!th- out the assistance rendered by these men and women, many of whom had cheerfully worked long hours to make up for absenteeism on the part of newer and less tell- sble employes and who had thus made possible the production that was r ulred by not. onl the home populat on but. the srme forces and other countries depending on Can- ada for food supply. ‘There ls scarcely an industrial concern In Canada, whatever its size, which ls not. 1n a position, 11s a result of its wartime ex erlences, to express similar gratltu e to tts older hands, many of whom have remained at work when normal] they would have retired, and w o have given of their best to keep the wheels of industry fuming as they have never turned before. Other peo- ple mny have moved from job to job as better wages or other cir- cumstances have arisen, but. these older hands have stayed tn their normal employment out; of loyalty to the firms that have given them

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l‘ of the objects which the Associa-

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PULIC FORUM

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Sin-It seems to me that. our people are staying up atanlght. to think up schemes whereby our Governments — Federal. Provincial and Civic-wlll be called on 1o provide funds for all kinds of poet-war projects '

Many of these already suggest- ed, have a uneasure of merit and most of them. one could endorse if the needed funds were avall~ able. but we trust retrember that our Governments have no money to spend, except what they col- lect from tne people tn taxes. In other words the money must be provided by the people either ln the shape of cash or by mort- gaginr; their property and future earnings.

It seems to me that. instead of pressing for expenditure or this nature. the proper approach is by the creation of conditions that will enable and encourage private entcrprlse to put money and efforts benlnd sound bust- mss projects and thus provide op- portunities for our people to show that, they cal; ac ln business what they dld ln war--"l‘ake the Lead." The labour :l.us provided will be our safeguard against depression and will enable our Government to collect without undue tax levies the money needed to tin- ance on a sound basis the public works needed.

The world ls now 2n need of what. Canada can supply but under the present system of tax- at-ton business cannot be expected to develop and play the pert lt should.

The renwval of existing tax penalties on enterprise and effort l: essential if Canada ls to talte its proper place in world markets and thus provide work for our people, which _i11 the Pntl will en- able LS to enjoy some at least, of the many suggested projects which are being proposed as a “cure all" for the conditions we are facing.

Governmen: expenditure except as an “evene-r“ l1: times of cle- presslon, are about. the same as a drink of rtnn to a tired man when what ls really needed ls a zood square meal.

T am. Sir. etc. PRODUCER. THE OVER FORTIES

Slr,—.A group of 1vell-known citizens of this city during the last depression formed an organ- ization known. as “Forty Plus of Canada." Its major purpose was to help those 1n J1»: class desig- nated tc obtain employment. It was an organization which sought to encourage these unfortunate victims of tbs depression to keep

scope of the organizations activ- ltles and extending them through- out the Uonilitlon, meetings were held and it was decided to form an organization t.1 be known as "The Senior Cl'.i:'cn‘s Association of Canada "

men and women above t-he age of forty possess qualifications and ability which can not only be ex- erclzea to earn a llvellhood, but make a material contribution to the welfare of the nation. Those in the above class who quickly obtained employment or appoint- ments when the war started feel that they should suffci no econ-

production as ‘they dld during the

war.

The objects of the new organ- ization wlll be to help men and women ln the forty-plus class to held themselves; to repudiate any attempted dlscrlmlnation because of age when seeking employment. to take step: to prevent discrim- ination because ef conditions in group insurance contracts; to carry on an active campaign to reduce the pension aae to slxt ' to do everything that ls legislat- ively and legally [JJSSllJlB to sec- ure consideration for those in the above class ’l‘hese are but a few

tion wlll endeavour to carry out. Unless the Aanclatlon ls nation- wide. it wlll bt: difficult. to attain these objects.