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TIIE GIIARLOTTETBWII GUARDIAN

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"The Stronqest Memory is Weaker than the

Weakest ink." SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,1042

\Var Al Our Firesides

It is not so very long ago since a few of our pmplc wcrc thanking God end declaring "it could not happen hcre"—th:it is, that Hitler’s vicious forces would never darken our door, and so what iizid we to frat‘? .

lt has liiippcnctl here, The Corvette called af- tcr our City. and endowed by our City Council ind (irggiinizcd socictit-s with the table ware and comforts has bccn sent to the bottom by a. Nazi uibmarinc. and llQl' Conimatidct and five of her crcw have been lost with her. Details are not yet forthcoming, but this is known, Lieut. Wm. jolmsloir, who \\'ZlS recently posted there,-was not a victim of the disaster.

1t is tragic cnotigh having brave Island lads Ullgilglllg the enemy in distant seas and lands, it is doubly so having the enemy visit our shores, wreck our protecting Corvettes, and kill our brave cifficcws and men at our very door, nay, at our very fircsidcs, for that is what it means to lll(lll_\' ivlio have friends and relatives in the R. C. N. \'. H. Surely there should be no longer any hesitancy r-n the lilrt of our people to enlist for defence of all we hold dear, and to contribute “till it hurt!" to ln-tivide the sincws of war.

Instead of Complaining

1'0 those of us who have shown any inclinat- ion in the last fcw months to complain about our so-callctl sacrifices in material things the Fin- ancial Post directs these salutary rcflecions:

1n France, Belgium, Holland or any other of a dozen countries under the Nazis, the average per- son no loiigci‘ worries about tax reductions —his mziin concern is to keep clear of a firing squad. lt is not a question of ivliat kind of meat he is going to have for Sunday. btit whether there will lw sufficient mouldy bread to keep his children alive. And as for automotive restrictions, Hit- lvi‘ can do as he pleases. because from the be- ‘ginning he confiscated all cars operated for priv- ate use.

True. Canadians are not just as well off as they wcrc at the beginning of the war, but the >HCYlllCC5 that have been demanded of us so far have bccn trivial compared with those of our for- mer allics who were unable to stop the Germans.

\\'e may not be able to get all the meat and a few other foods we are accustomed to this win- tcr, but irith our abundant crops any thought of starvation in Canada is utterly fantastic. There will probably be more restrictions on travel be- forc the your is out, but look at the European who is C0l11pCllC(l by bayoncts to stay indoors at night and who cannot travel beyond the limits of his village without a special pass.

Through all of occupied Europe and in most of the llrilislt Isles too, the people must stumble through Il perpetual blackout on their way to homcs wilt-re every lump of fucl is rationed. In kiziiiziiln at lhc worst wc are asked t0 dim a, few strcct and store lights and lay in our coal in ad- vance. lllstciirl of complaining, we Canadians should b0 down on our l\'i‘.CC'S thanking God, that compuriwl to lhc people of Europe, we are still living in litxiiry.

Dltiughing-up Campaign in U.K.

Although it is difficult to obtain actual fig- ures of tht- zirczi ulidcr cultivation in the Unit- cd Kinqtltim at [ti-csciil. it is reliably reported that nu iucrtwist of 45 pcr cent in the acreage under crop< u.» .'ichicvcd in two years. In the years imiuvdizilt-ly prccctling the ivzir approximately 7.8 million .'|(‘i'(-~ \\'i'l'(' dcrotctl to cultivated crops in linqlinvl. \\':il<-< and Scotland, exclusive of the arczi undt-r llIl_\' in rotation. During 1941 approxi- mrilrly if; million acres were under cultivation.

Tm.» fli‘lll(‘\’t"lll"lll is the direct result 0f the ploughing-up campaign, plans for which were mi just brfort‘ the war. and the record turnover of hunl formerly (lcvotctl to other purposes than rgricnllzirc has been due in great part to payment t-i a .~iib<iily and to the increased use 0f tractors. the I()_:,OO() machines now in use in the United léinygdom being double the pre-yvar figure. Since lunc 4. i030. a total of 60,000 tractor ploughs, 22,000 disc barrows. 19.000 hinders, and 1.900 threshing machines have also come into use. Most of thvsc ncw machines have gone to private own- rrs and contractors. the number allotted to County Comiiiitlccs having bceii 6.000 tractors. 6,000 tractor plouglis, 5,000 binders. and 50o thresh- ing inricliiiics.

Britain's Birth Rate

The fall in Britain's birth rate continued ln 104i anrl the rate of 14.2 per 1,000 of population vrrts‘ ilr- lowest birth rate cver recorded by that country. The ]ll‘()lll(‘lll is receiving increasing at- {infirm in medical circles. Professor Munro

the situation will become desperate in some years when hurried legislation will be too late. In the same paper Sir Francis‘ Freemantle (expert on public health and member of parliament) points outthat the present birth rate is matched against the death rate, but the crude death rate must al- most certainly rise. Women of child-bearing ages —from i 5 to 50 years —are producing only three fourths of the children required to maintain their numbers. If fertility and mortality remain con- stant Britain’s population of 41,000,000 will shrink in forty years to 36,000,000 and in one hundred years to 20,000,000, but if, as is more likely, fertility and mortality continue to decline as in recent years, the figures would shrink to 31,500,000 and 4,500,000 respectively.

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Harvesting of grain crops throughout Ontario was 6o per cent. completed by the first of this month with-a good average yield reported, the Ontario Department of Agriculture states in its monthly report.

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The whole of last year's oats crop has been bought by the British Ministry of Food, which is also to take over as much of this year's harvest as can be spared from the farms. Flight Lieuten- ant; Robert Boothby, M. P. for East Aberdeen- shire, addressing his constituents, said that Lord Woolton told him: "Youcan tell your farmers that so far as I am concerned they cannot grow enough oats. I will buy the 12L!’

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“This I can tell you, I am very thankful to Scouting," wrote a British Scoutmaster, now a member of a Commando unit. "Each man in a Commando has to go through the training a Boy ‘Scout goes through from the Tenderfoot stage, with a few additions. When I see a Scout troopat work I think to myself, ‘By Jove, here's another Commando almost ready to take its place in the fighting line.” -

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Manufacturing production in the Maritime Provinces recorded a marked upswing during 1940, the gross value of products made aggregat- ing $206,952,202 as compared with $t 52,741,404 in 1939, an increase of 355 percent. Each of the three provinces showed improvement, the total for Nova Scotia standing at $113,814,650, a gain of 36.9 per cent, New Brunswick $89,- 281,008, an increaseiof 35.2 per cent and Prince

Edward Island $3,856,544, a gain of 9.1 per q

cent. principally in the output of canned and cured products. it n- it s-

Elcven Canadian social workers have arrived in England to help in welfare activities under the Ministry of gHealth evacuation scheme. Dur- ing the next few weeks they are to attend a course/of lectures and visits in order to get ex- perience of English conditions, and will live in settlements in London. This will be followed by several months’ practical work with welfare workers in the reception area. At the end of this period it is expected that they will take up ap- pointments as evacuation welfare workers with local authorities.

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A serious feature of the beef shortage talk, declares Mr. Gardiner, Minister of Agriculture, is that people were stocking up with pork and rushing up the consumption of pork_ He feared the result would be Canadian. farmers would be unable to fill the 6oo,ooo,ooo-pound contract with Britain. The Minister also takes pains to point out that the American cattle quota has not yet been filled. The impression has been given in some places that Canadians had to do without beef because their cattle quota across the border was being filled.

e it- districts of Quebec, accordin to a report issued by the agricultural division o the provincial Bur- eau of Statistics. Some counties have suffered from drought that has prevailed for many weeks, the report said, but, in general, the average yields per acre will not be greatly reduced in the affect- ed lands. However, conditions of potatoes, due to blight and rot, now are inferior to normal from five to IO per. cent, according to district and thus total crop probably will be reduced Harvesting works are well advanced and results satisfactory, the report continued, adding that grain was stor- ed. under favorable conditions and that the qual-

ity was good. .

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George Cadbury, British philanthropist, born this date i839; established the world renowned Cadbury cocoa andchocolate firm through which he became a millionaire; keen social ‘reformer. and practically fathered the “up-lift Movement" which had for its object the making of life more pleasant and worth while to the daily and week- ly wage earner; established a model village at Bournville where his manufactory was located, and created a trust for its maintenance; took for- most part in peace movements, and endowed the Peace and Arbitration section of the Internation- al Council of Women, of which his wife was president; took active interest in religious inove- ments, and established Settlements in London and other centres; acquired the London Daily News which he used largely in the interest of social fefQfm. three of his sons still being directors; jOltlcd Baden Powell in furthering the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement, his wife becoming vice president of the latter association.

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The Munitions and Supply department announ- ces new typewriters will not be available to civil- ian users, and that even war industries would have to obtain a special permit to purchase ma- chines. The typewriter shortage results frotn con- version of United States platits to war work, the statement says. Henceforth only the armed ser- vices and such government department as are di- rectly related to war work will get iiew ma- chines without a permit. The new order applies the same restriction to new, used and rebuilt “non-portable” typcwritefrs and exempts ma- chines more than i5 year; old at date of sale. All

NOTES BY TliE WAY

A Pennsylvania town will try to decide for purimses of collection what rubbish and what is Bar- bagc. Grandmother included all sucli in the omnibus word, rub- bagm-Boston Globe.

There is no complaint from th= peach growers in getting quarter cent a pound more than last, year for peaches to be canned. But what. a spread in the retail price which a lady paid at Saskatoon last. week for two pounds. 918m peaches in all. 29 cents. For the best varieties the grower here Bel-i 3 1-2 cents per pound. -St. Cath- arines Standard.

Now, no sensible, reasonable per- son expects Canada's war effort to be financed on “wind? The effort we are making in this country — and many submit it. ls still inadequ- ate -takes money in huge and steadily-growing amounts. But there always has been the impres- sion throughout the land that Ot- tawa denies itself little -end an

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liament Hill itself strikes the aver- age citizen as overdue. —1-1allfax Herald.

Sir:—Wide publicity has been given to the remarkable dictum of the President of the Board of Edu- cation that a person with a good Latin education can be expected to "take the internal combustion en- gine in his stride." At least equal publicity shoudl be given to that of sir John Russell in his recent Messel Lecture, that some of our troubles of today will continue "until one of them (the universi- ties) takes a firm stand and refuses to give an honors degree to on arts student who knows nothing about science or to a science student who lacks a decent knowledge of Eng- lish and of another IRTIIZUBIKE."—- Letter in the Manchester Guardian.

Serveney five school teachers who are attending the annual summer school sessions here volunteered this wexak to become dancing in- structors to the men in camp and barracks in the local area. That. was a. simple and a kindly act and one which demonstrated again the genius of democracy in devising ways of meeting situations which cannot be forcseen-(victoria Col- oxilst).

Of the Dieppe commando assaul, a London despatch reports “the Allied raiders brought back a num- ber of German prisoners, including officers." A Canadian officer said: "They gave in and came along uietly, which surprised us. We had thought they'd fight, until the end." No man who served on the old Western Front. will be surprised . . . no man who was used to see- ing batches of Germans with their hands in the air. crying Kameradl The time comes when they quit. ‘They can fight. these Germans, make no mistake about that,—-but get, them away from their machines. meet them on equal terms in arms and equipment, and they will not "fight until the end" unless there

no other course left 09011 W them. The old Canadian corps W05 a. formation of forces that. took the measure of the “Blond Beast." a quarter of a century ago. and the men who served in that formation are not deluded by Nazi propaganda about the "invinclbillty" of the sons of the Germans of 1914-18.-Hali- fax Herald. A commercial traveller, having to lay up his automobile and tak-

g his first railway trip in l0 years, says he ts amazed to discov- er that passengers now out-number the train ‘crew. -—Victoria Dally Times.

Although not an unqualified suc- cess. the high school harvest help laeement scheme appears to be ustifying itself on the principle that "every little helps” and as a try-out for a much wider scheme which may be needed next year. - Wlnnipeg Tribune.

0f married women, 15-44 years of age, in Canada in i931. 533,354 were in rural and 606.400 in urban areas. The family responsibilities of rural married women counled with the increasing stringency of the farm labor situation, suggests that few recruits for industrial em- PIOYmBTlC can be secured from the married women. 15-44 years of Age, in rural areas. However. the mar. ried women in this age group in urban localities provide a labor pool “tactically untapped. _ Brandon

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Olttn we wonder what sort of 0916 they are who inspire and ave cabled to this continent rid- bits of gossip about the Sayings and ‘Win88 OI Peflllle like Mr. Churchill. ordinarily. in normal times such incident-s mlsiit be news. but after "We Yew or war. years which m" *8" 50 many optimistic Pfflmlses and talk turn to ashes in gixirrrenyouths. manv must find them a and irritating, probably flkree with the London Herald's d1’! remark that, something more [s cfilled f0!‘ now than Elamourous Publldly tales about democratic lisders. We are not 80in! to win mos war by the expenditure of My 0n radioed phOtAtlgraphs 0f Mr. Churchill in a. ten-gallon n“ —Ottawa Joumiil, '

Th"? "9 "W"? Duzzllng factors gihgenthcontrol. There are cue; re e orirzinal tenants are mak. l"! lame Profits on their homes bv ‘lib-Milli! BM! llvlnll themselves rent-free. There is a case. for in. stance. where the original tenant ply! $25 a month. but rents part, of he upstairs section of his home for 35 dollars e. month. Landlords, in "m6 08MB. have left renets low because the tenant was a. fr-ienn on a particularly good tenant. Then the Rood tenant moves out. but. the rent cannot be altered for his suc- cessor. no matter what kind of a tenant he may be. Apparently there is nothing in the law to prevent e tenant from collecting twlu as much as he himself pays for bort of his home, and that seems strange Under present conditions. it. is dif- ficult to ttet housing accommodatl -n and wtiile the original tenant, may be charged only the Dfelflllltlg rent, he can collect what he likes from his sub-tenants. The whole thing lqoks screwy. —Nlagera Falls Re- vew.

The word "pickerel" Illelna n little D7118. There are at least two members of the pike family in eastern North America that never

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A THOUGHT A DAY FOR A NATION AT WAR ~

"The terrible truth that con- fronts us is that we are not. winning this war , we are barely holding our own and our position may soon become even more precariousfl- Alex Walker, Dominion President‘ of the Canadian Legion.

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(Fisheries News Bulletin)

War knocked Eilrope out of the Irish moss trade on this continent axtd that's a main reason wnv Co- nadian moss production, previous. 1y only a few thotsand , in- creased twenty-fold and more last year and from present signs 1s likely w go quil-e a bit. rushes‘ In

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‘more is market for the moss tilted

in it a carbohydrate known as “so ose" which makes it. useful as a clarifying agent in the oil and beer industries, as a stabilizer in some of the food industries, and for a numberi- of other purposes. Ln pre-war yea-rs imports of Irieh moss cailne to North America from Europe, though the United Stalks had some production of its own.

Last year's Canadian harvest of trisn moss, mini. the mater part of it gathered in Prince Edward Island but sortie in Nova. Bootia and s. small quantity l-n New Brunswick, ran to 237,000 pounds, dried. The figure shmlld be well above that in i942, as indicated by one or two bits of fact. as to the current year's operations. By the end of July two Prince Edward 1s. land co-operaitlve groups, working together, had already shipped sev- enal 25,000-pound (mt-loads. An Island .ccmmercia1 company was operating on o. similar scale. Oth- er Isla-ncl people, too, were harvest. trig moss. In several parts of Nova, Scotia, principally in Antig- onish and Yarmout-h counties substantial harvests were being gathered.

Prices obtained for moss from the 1942 crop showed more or less variation but. 1n some cases, as re- ported to the Dominion Depart- ment of Fisheries by its local in- spectors in the Maritlmes, the dried product was bringing $35 a himdredweight. In late 1941 the ‘Price to the shipper averaged about $15 a hun-dredweight for dried but unbleached moss and about $20 for the bleached.

AB Elfeady stated, Irish moss is used in the oil and bee-r industries and in focd industries it serves such purposes as staibllizin chnco, late milk and preventing The for- mation of ice crystals in lee cream. It has long been used in making Puddings of the blaric mange type but. as a matter of fact, its nut-ri- tive value ls low. It is used, too, as an ingredient of so-called water Paints and textile plants employ it BS f! Sire and to thicken colours in °lh°° Pflfltting. Sow makers make use of it because it produces o velvety lather. A mug extract is added to some leather dressings and Elwe stains because it imparts t 81m- A perfumed solution of the moss is sometimes used as a hair fixative. The moss also has Scine therapeutic use, limited but CCmITlCTl.

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