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Morning Dally tfounded In H057) Authorized n BCPIIIIII (‘Inn Mall. Pun Offlco Department, Ottawa. . The Illnutl (iulrdlnn Publishing Pu. Editor nml Managing Dln-rtur, .l_ H. lluruett. Alnnrlulo Edltun Frank Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink"

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THURSDAY. DEC‘. 8. i940

Brighter Fisheries Prospects

’l'hc bright future for Canadzfs fisheries preilit ted in the llousc of Commons on ‘lliestlay willyit is hoped, materialize as a result of Government policies which have now been announced. According to Fish- eries l\iinistei' Mayhew, the new programme will meaii a big expansion in production, particularly in the Maritimes. Unfortun- ately; it will not come into operation until the money is provided in next year's esti- mates. It will ll1l'OI\‘€ a greater use of rrawlers and the establishment of three new branches of the Department. 'l‘hese ltranches will provide for an efficient in- spectiou service in boats and plants and through the wholesale and retail trades. for provision of technical help to fishermen and small plants, and for a consumer ser- vices branch to educate the public and popularize fish for food.

While members generally spoke approv- ingly of the programme, some doubt was expressed with regard to the use of non- Canadian trawlers off the coast. If the market shrank as some people feared, the effect on thousands of small-boat owners, the backbone of-the coastal economy, might be hard. lt was argued that the wat- vrs off Canada's coast should be reserv- cd for Canadian fishermen instead of be- ing made into a virtual United Nations gathering-place for ships from many coun- tries. The fact must, however, be faced that no restrictive measures against com- petition can be of benefit unless production, processing and transportation methods are modernized in every way.

Mr. Niayheyti mentioned the possibility of a, Domitiion-Provincial conference on fish- eries. also that extra patrol boats will be operated permanently in the Northumber- land Strait to catch up with illegal fishing in these waters. There will be a change next year to give magistrates trying such cases complete authority in imposing maxi- mum fines.

He also stated that $1,250,000 had been spent by the Federal Government in the 1948-49 fiscal year to buy fish in the Mari- time Provinces under the Fisheries Prices Support Act, that all but $13,700 worth of this quantity had been given away because there was "no market“. and that out of the total expenditure for this purpose the Maritime fishermen "would not get more than 15 per cent.” These statements would appear to require some amplification. It was the business of the Government from 1he start to find markets and also to see. that a greater proportion of this money was spent where it was actually needed, in ac- cord with the representations made when the support price was approved.

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by even ten days, the entire $2,500,000,00t) cost of the lilanhaltian (atom bomb) pro- ject caii be written off, and recorded as a spectacular success. and a value, as con- irasted to cost. of at least $l.500.000,000 each be set on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.

“Since warfare seems to be mainly a competitive destruction, we can get another estimate iii nit entirely different way. Tak- ing the radius of destruction for a bomb as from one to two miles, the area destroy- cd would bc ElpI)l‘O.‘-{ll"tltliGI_\' six square miles. lu an ii\'t‘l‘tig(l city‘ the property» ialue runs perhaps $50,000,000 per square mile. The destruction pcr bomb, therefore, represents about $300,000,001! and gives a figure of the ‘advantage’ to us, and therefore of the value to us. in this insxme competition in dcstructiveness."

EDITORIAL NUI ES

The fight of the American Colonial Air Lines to maintain its monopoly of an inter- national route is a desperate one. With the Canadian Government as its adversary, the American company is simply outclassed.

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Another uniform. a walking 6pc. has been approved for the Canadian Army‘. Iii Britain the design of uniforms is the per- sonal prerogative of His lVIajesty. It would be interesting to learn by whom it is ex- ercised in respect of Canadian forces.

The Nova Scotia Department of Educa- tion manages to extend its interests beyond the “three R's". Instructors from the De- partment are to teach a folk school at Mai‘- garee Forks where folk songs and dancing may be studied as well as the position of the farmer in the community.

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The City‘ School Boards decision that a junior high school is needed comes none too soon. The increased enrollment in the city schools has made necessary the use as classrooms of basement and other rooms

pose.

A research director for a Chicago pack- inghouse in giving a survey of the grant strides made in utilizing byproducts of meat packing predicts a day when animals may be too valuable to eat and the packing industry will not sell steaks and hams, but the by-products that are coming from the laboratories. Then people will really yf-Ea-‘il for the good old days.

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Halifax must be an unsatisfactory place for families to live-or starve in! Accord- ing to the director of child health for city schools there: “Breakfast was the poorest meal of the day,“ the health officer reports. “In fact, a surprising niunber of children come to school with no breakfast at all; others have only tea and toast." Yet the

same city exports thousands of boxes of foodstuffs for tinder-notirished children abroad. O I I Making the roads safe for autoists. In

Nova Scotia any driver or owner of a motor vehicle involved in an accident may lose the

The task of founding and maintaining a museum may well seem so onerous as to almost indefinitely delay its commencement. In a long and enlightening address publish- r-d in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. the Director of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, has some sound ad- vice for the smaller museum. Knowledge, like charity, should begin at home, and a museum has a primary duty to its own peo- ple in depicting for them aspects of the district which are a natural extension of what is learned in school. It: should show by models, diagrams, maps and photograplhs tie elementary factors on which have depend- ed the choice of occupation sites, the pro- vision of shelter, food and drainage, the pursuit of farming and other industries, and the siting of roadways to link up adjacent districts.

Secondly, there should be examples of the commonest or most important rocks of the district, also vegetation, animals, birds, reptiles and fish. Identification being the first step, but the aim must be to arouse interest in habits and habitat. ' Then comesthe works of man, tracing his occupation sites, his handicrafts and his success in winning a livelihood from his sur- roundings. Such would be the general pat- tern of a local museum, crystallizing the essential characteristics of the district for young and old alike, providing the evidence, and above all, the simple interpretation oi it for the beginner.

Dollars llitil Bombs

A grimly ironical note is sounded in the latest Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. "We know. that at the end of the war our daily war eitpenses were approaching $300,- 000,000 a day,” writes Lawrence R. Haf- stad, of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commis- aloii. "If the A-bombs shortened the war

right to use the highway unless he can prove financial responsibility by producing a “motor vehicle liability insurance card" or."

a "financial responsibility card." The new Nova Scotia statute, also known as the “safety responsibility la\\-"’ is an improved

form of law already in force in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia and '26 states of the U. S. Enabling legislation of a similar kinrl has been enacted in this Province.

Thomas De Quincy. English essayist, died this date 1859; educated at. Manchester and Oxford, he early’ bQCfilllO addicted to the opium habit which affected his literary out- put. He later removed to Edinburgh and Lasswade. where he produced his remark- able work "Confessions of An English Opium-Eater". followed by critical writing and biographical studies in Blackwood, Tait‘s Magazine. and other journals. His reading was very extensive, and he had great intellectual endowments; was one of England's greatest stylists, and excelled iii impassionate ornate prose: but his work was marred by his periodic depression.

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British free legal aid for the poor has been restricted on the ground of economy. Effective next July 1, the plan would have provided free, or Government-assisted, legal aid and advicc in any court for any Briton making no more than [T00 t$2,l70) a year. Prime Minister Attlce has decided the far- reaching system of legal aid ivill have to wait for better times. For the present, it will apply only to cases which reach Bri- taln's highest court atid court of appeals. These are the top tribunals. The decision was announced in the House of Commons

He did not cite the reason, but a Treasury spokesman told reporters it was Govern- ment economy.

which are. certainly not ideal for the pur-

by Sir Frank Soskicc, the Solicitor-General.-

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Sin-As a new subscriber may‘ l. congratulate you on the quality! of your informative and satisfyﬁng‘ paper, "The Guardian". I only" \vish that there w--- more "Let-t tcrs to the Ediloi" 1c. I fcrl that‘ exchanges of viewpoints uutl coin-t meiils are 0i ilrciit interest to, iiiaiiy people. Iii sutlgrsting that; more people write I will "|‘ll‘tl(‘-* tise what I preach."

A recciit <('flilUI'l.'ll niitl riii c.\-‘ cerpt from "The Peicrliurough l5», aniiner" have ruuserl people tni think that clergymrii are asking to be exempt from paying iii- come tax. This is not so in the case of the Protestant ministers: they have not asked the privilege of exemption either as indivi- duals or groups.

The only appeals of the Pro- testant ministers have been that the privilege of exemption now enjoyed by the Roman Catholic clergy’ should be I\'llh(ll‘ii\\rl so that Illl rlcrgynicii \\|ll pity ' come tax as Protestant ministers nu\\' do and as all ought.

Some Protestant ministers refused to pay‘ income tax until‘ R. (‘. clergymrn rirc ninrin tot pay", but even then. l believe. these are paying an ziirnuiit equal to lllc amount O\\‘lllﬂ in tax, to, the church or some charities so; that what is a matter of prin-t clple to them will not be regard- ed by others as a mrtter nf mere TﬂOTKﬂV-SHVIYIQ,

T would greatly‘ appreciati- It‘ If this were published HS it would, offset any’ slight anti-clcricrilismt that some may feel lf thcv think-l the clergy privileged.

I ‘am. Sir. etr._ tREVJ JOHN DOFGIHAS.‘ York, l“. E. I.

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"The matter referred Io edi- torially and in the Peterborouglt Examiner was not to the alleged difference between the treatment of the R. t‘, clergy and the ‘Pro- testant clergy’ with regard to it», cnmc tax. but to a proposal by] Mr. Qrdon Gravdon. l\i.l’.. that‘

all clergyman be taken out of the Income tax brackets til- together-Ed.

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tBy W. N.Ewei.'l Mr. llcctor McNeifs appeal to \'\ bins-in‘ to "pull WP U"

and to end state affairs in which the Soviet Union is “walled off in darkness" from the world outside. brought no response. 0r rather it brought only a charact- eristic Vishinsky retort. Russia, said her Foreign Minister, "will never open her doors to British and American intelligency agent-f planted in the guise of journalists.’

Nor was anything else to be ex- prcted. For secrecy and suspicion are pant of vici thinking and Soviet policy b0- day.

i say "today" because it was not ‘nke this in early years regime. Russia indeed was never entirely an open country But, 25 years ago

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Knowledge and wisdom. fay from being one. oft-limes no Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts o! other men: Wisdom in n-Linds attentive to their corn. Knowledge, IIIZISS. The mere materials wisdom builds, Till smootird and squafd and ﬁtted to its place, Does not encumber whom it searm i‘ enrich. ‘ Knowledge is proud that lcarwcl so much", Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. ' Books are not seldom talisman; and

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ziers from the West were wclcoin- rd And the more they were in- trrested in what was going 0Y1. 1119 zi-oi-e weltoome they vrere. You could move about freely, get tivath obvious exceptions which obtain everywhere) all informa- tion you wanted. talk with whom you pleased. Soviet, ministers, 0(- ficials. diplomats were only too delighted to talk. Today visitors

are discouraged. Diplomats and jOLlfliallSiS are ~-- except for the most formal nfI-icial contacts ~

isolaied osiiraciscd. To show any interest in anything. to seek any iiifomiation about anything. is lo arouse immediate suspicion. Every formgner is looked upon as a spy in disguise.

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Wh_v is this? What does It mean‘? ‘Iihose questions are important and the answer are not. entirely sim- pie.

First one llillzl realize that this secrecy‘ is internal as well as ex- ternal. The Soviet Government. in these days kertps its blinds drawn between itself and the mass of its own people. Its leaders are rarely seen and rarely sprak. Their or- ders are issued. their oracular pronouncements made, from be- hind ihc veil. Nobody knows even whether Stalin is in Moscow or

Some to the fascination of a name Surrender judgment, hood-ivlnkd. Scone the style lnfatuatcs. and through latbyirtntlis and wilds Of error loads them bv n lune en- traric‘d. While sloth seduces more, ton urea}: to bear unsuuportable thought. And swalloyviuz, therefore. withoutl pause or UllﬁlCl‘. l The totlal grist unsiitrd. husks anl a l.

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BOSTON PACKET What appcai-s to ha'vr first. regular packet servzc lave-en (Thazﬂnitot-nvn and Ila-nun wal established by lhc briganttn" ‘Galena’, belonging to Messrs. G. M. Fowlc and Co.. Boston.

Shc arrived here in tthc first week of May, i857. with n cargo of American merchandise and sailed on the_22nd instant with 42 passengers and a general cargo nf island product‘. reaching Bos- ton after “a fine run of seven day's." One of the owners of the vessel, Mr. S. A. Fowle. belong- ed in Charlottetown. The farr. as advertised, was $8 to Boston and $2 head-money on landing,

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not. He comes and goes unseen and by night. Nobody’ knows what IVIOIOiOV is doing or where. There has been no (‘rniitiiiinisl Party Congress for a doztn ywars. All this one feels, l\' delibcralci the expression of something deop in Stalin's own nature.

The second reason is a quile

genuine distrust zuirl sitspielon -l

not only of foreignrrs bul. every- body. It is a nzilhultigical feature oi‘ all dictatorship». And it is cs- pccially‘ rong in Russia. Nor —if one accepts the official version of 1hr history’ of the regime and the

l Dilly ~- is it. without reason? For lnccordint! to that version half the

most trusted and most prominent Bolshevik Leaders of the last thir- ty years were in fact. traitors. wrrckcrs, conspirators and dis- guiscd "Fascists". Th» party on its own showing has bccii a nest of lnpirs and rottntrr-rcvolittionaties

- I whose iicfiirioizs plots have only

{been countered hv i-nngtan; "PUFZFYT. In such an atmosphere every Communist is still liable to ho stir-peeled. And if Russian Communists. why not foreigners?

i Thlfdll‘. there ‘IS ‘a nccd to ac-

‘rouiit for failures and mistakes land "linrlconiinixs. Now it is the taxiom that. Stalin is never wrong and that "the party" is npvm- WFOHSL S0 when something has tnanifcsily gone wrong it. must be .duc to "sabotage" of some kind. And "sabotage" must obviously

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In short, any but the most ex- perienced, venturing into the bush, ought. to be always on guard against the possibilky of getting lost, ought lo be equipped to meet Elie worst if it develops and ought to know how to bethavc in that event - above all. schooling him- self not. to yield to panic. — Sault St. Marie Star.

The results of the Manitoba election on the whole are gratify- iu-g. The provincc-at-large has shown it wants no parl of the CCF, Mr. Campbell is premier in his own right which must. be highly satisijving to ‘ him. His cabinet was returned intact with the possible exception of Mr. Dryden. provincial treasurer. who is a victim of one of those upsets which are part of the luck o! politics. The distribution and the large number of acolamations made it a strange election but tho result is a clear vote for sensible government in Manitoba and heavy rcibuke for socialism. There is no other explanation of it. It is with- out consolation for the CCF. —- Winnipe-g Free Press.

Both on legal grounds and on grounds of proper prudence, Pre- mier Duplessis has steadily main- tained tihe position that he can do nothing about rent. controls until the question of jurisdiction has been settled by the Supreme Court. After all. it is Ottawa tthat has raised the rents and Ottawa that has appealed to the Supreme Court. The whole responsibility in the matter is Ottawa's, there-

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g fore. until such iLmg a; i ponsibility; of the provililceerw legally established. 1g and “his that hiPPelli. one may be 5m that Premier Duplessis will run his responsibility with courage a“ determination. But until it, hand pens. he is acting in the best at? forests of the tenants by m; ‘ mg to be stamtpeded. undo.- Libel: pressure‘. into a course all too like.

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Ottawa iihe othc: clgslgtlgg’ to man and his ivife were [Opqaglltc stand in the draughty. narrow c P ridor of the dining ca; gm. o; minutes before they QQuld c‘. get a seat at a table. It. was a? other 20 minutes before their s“ . arrived. And this was in ‘a: middle of the week, not on l dia when travel reaches peak pfQpQry lions- 511F615! the Canadian i111: ways should be able lo do some- tthing about this. During the u-a, otf course. congestion was under: stanclable. But now we are Sup- Posed to be living in normal timu and apparently we can Qxpec! that a lot more peaplg are so," to be dining on trains than than used to be. That being the m“ the public will look for hu-provb ment. We might learn somethirq from Europe. On than.’ of u“ express trains there. pagggnge" desiring a meal are given a Mk" and wait in their seals or uhairq until their number is called. When it is. they find | (mi. ready for them in the diner. _. Toronto Financial Post.

i He blenath them also. l0 that they are multiplied greatly; and He suffei-eth not; their cattle lo decrease.

have been inspired and instigated by "enemies of the Soviet Uniion“ abroad. There has inevitably been disappointment, there have been failui-el. there have been trust.- rations. The Communist nund. convinced that the Marxist. theory and Stalin-Isl policy are impec- lca-ble, is driven to attribute them all to machinations international capitalism.

So too, when there i: any dis- content, any unrest either in the Soviet. Union or Satellite States. There should be no discontent. there should be no unrest, there should be nothing t happiness. prosperity, "loving evotion" to the great Stalin. Again the sources of trouble can only be machina-

tions of foreign agents and their , tiupcs. But there L! also somevthtr

deeper and more significant thn any of this. It ls something not it‘. lriny way "Communist" but. pro- ifoundly Russian. It is that dcc-p , sense of wide gulf which not. only icxisis but should exist between tRussia (and of course Russian empires as l wholei and the west. -There is a strange passionate falth ‘in the destiny of Russia. in the [soul of Russia ~ feeling that. the ‘west. is n decadent. corrupt, dying .society which is destined to give l place to something springing from the Russian land itself. It

has nothing to do with any id eological conflict. between capitalism and Communism.

It runs all through Russian history and Russian literature. It is myth and mystique of "Holy Russia". And by strange irony it. becomes the dominant passion of men who w-ere once Bolsheviks and interna- tionalists.

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Russia today is quite deliberate- ly lowering the Iron Curtain. iso- lating herself in every possible way from the west. The Soviet: Govern- ment, is determined to uproot and expel all traces of “western influ- ence" from Russia and her sub- ject states. All links are to be bro- ken. History. science, art, litera- ture are all to be remade on Rus- sian models. Pretence is being built up that they owe nothing to the |\vest. Culture and civilization are land must. be Russian. And they ‘trust be kept pure and uncontam- inated _ even to the significant. point. at which marriage of n So- viet citizen to a foreigner is for- bidden by lnw. There must be no pollution of the stock.

We are faced in fact by isola- tionism which has not. existed since the days of old Chinese and Jap-

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