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nmnv, iluncnlclou Mr. Gardiner At It Again

When the Government passed Bill 80, after lie plebiscite of April, 1942, the principle of conscription for service anywhere was accepted. When on Nov. 23 last the Order-in-Council was ‘passed making available 16,000 draftees for overseas service that principle was applied. Thus the Government has not only accepted the prin- ciple, blit applied it, though the application is "half-hearted" and “piecemeal,” as Mr. Ralston called it En the House of Commons.

It is then surprising, says the Globe and Mail, to read the nonsense spoken by Agricul- ture Minister Gardiner at an interview in Re- gina rlie other day. The Canadian Press re- port says: “Agriculture Minister Gardiner in an interview here today ivarned those advocat- ing all-out conscription of manpower for mili- tary service that such a policy would curtail the Dominion's food production, make it impossible to meet demands for supplies coming from Can- ada's allies, and endanger the peace."

There is neither rhyme nor reason in what Mr. Gardiner says. As our Toronto contemp- orary points out, there are tens of thousands of home llraftees iii uniform in Canada who have not been made available to fight; who only train. How can making them available for overseas service “curtail the Dominion’s food production"? They are not on the farms. They are in uniform. To use them as reinforcements does not cut food production, for they are eat- ing, not producing food. They are also not doing anything "to meet the demands for supplies coming froiii Caliada's allies." They are using those supplies. And how is it possible for any responsible man to say that using those draftees overseas would “endanger the peace.’ If there were an end of the divisive two-army system. which causes bitterness and distinitv, the groundwork for true unity would be laid in Canada.

Didn't Just Happen

It didn't just happen that the famous Col- ogne Cathedral stands today in the midst of a great ciry in ruins, showing the scars of \\':lr but its spires still reaching to the skies, the basic structure essentially unharmed. _

It is, writes a reporter, “as though some power had saved-the cathedral from the des- truction which reached to its very doors," and he thinks legend will say that “its fragile love- liness is indestructible."

N0 need to look for a miracle, however, in the story of Cologne Cathedral. It was spared because bomb-aimers of the Royal Air Force and the R. C. A. F., and in recent days artillery- men of the United States Army, had instruc- tions to spare it. The cathedral was hit sev- eral times by bombs, obviously by accident, and the \vonder is it wasn't hit more often because there was almost next door a great railroad station which was a legitimate target.

But, as a contemporary points out, the aver- age Briton and Canadian and American, uil- like so many Germans, has no taste for wanton destruction and so the cathedral, which could not have survived except for the most pains- taking care on the part of those who attacked Cologne, and captured it, lives to reirlind the German people that there is something in the world more than battle and fury and the hate- ful Nazi doctrine of masters and slaves.

Canada's Indebtedness

A reassuring statement comes from Mr. Graham Towers, governor of the Bank of Can- ada, regarding Canada's debt position after lnorc than five years of war. He was able to show that, notwithstanding the heavy borrowing of the Government for the financing of the nation's \var effort, the net interest charges on the debt were only twice as large at the end of the ycar 1944 as they were at the beginning 0f the con- flict, due to the fact that the average interest rate on debt is now only 2.6 per cent, whereas it was 3.6 per cent before the war, and also because part of the debt was incurred to ac- quire revenue-producing assets. Moreover, net interest charges are no more onerous, relatively, than they were at the start of the war-about 3.2 per cent of the national income.

This is s truly remarkable showing. It is interesting to examine the detailed explanation given by Mi". Towers. Direct domestic funded debt at the end of r944 was five times what it was at the beginning of the war; but direct funded debt, domestic and foreign. was only four times as much, because soilie of the foreign debt had been paid off. All direct and C.N.R. funded debt was only three times as much, because some foreign and C.N.R. debt was paid off. When one comes to a consideration of net interest charges on this debt, because of the lower rate and other reasons referred to above, they are found to be only twice as heavy as before the war, and, in view of the increase m national income, constitute, in fact, no greater burden on the body politic than ill pre-war days. That is the highly favourable financial position of the Dominion at the pres- ent timc,,on the authority of the Governor of the Bank cf Canada who is also general chair- man of the National War Finance Committee. It is obvious there could be no finer invest- ment» than the purchase of Canadian Victory Bonds, in the light of these official statistics.

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‘Confused Alarnis.‘

The Toronto Glob: and Mail cartoonist dei- picts “Canadian Public" sitting with his feet in a pan of hot water and, with a towel about his head, moaning feverishly "I keep hearing con- flicting figures and contradictory statements!" Swirling about the unfortunate victim's head are the following cries:

“Unless McNaughton gets an acclamation, I will call off the byelectionl" “No purpose can be served in calling a session unless Mc- Naughton, has a seat!" “Defence Minister Mc- Naughfon's defeat makes no difference at all!" “The Canadian people do not want a general election in wartime!" “A general election will be called this Summer!" "An election mustn't interfere with the war loan l" “No sense in calling Parliament iil February -— not enough time to discuss the war effort!" "Parliament will ‘meet on March x9 to discuss the war ef- fort.”

Hence the plight of “Canadian Public" - bewildered, bedevilled and befuddled by a babel of confused voices all shouting stridently in his car, with today's solemn pronouncement mock- ing yesterday's, and with everybody left “on a darkliiig plan Swept with confused alarms of struggle and

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r-EDITORIAL NOTES-

The City tax has gone up, something which everybody anticipated but hoped to avoid. a w u m

Now Nova Scotia is to follow our example and dig for 0il——-to compete with her wealth of coal.

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A distinguished visitor, in the person of Rev. H. G. M. Clarke, M.A., is to be with us today, talking on matters spiritual, both after- noon and evening.

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The change from a twelve to a fifteen months “year", concerning their Public Ac- counts, suits the Jones Government admirably. So also does the omission of the customary word “deficit", or “surplus", as the case may be. “Increase in Liabilities" does not sound so heinous in the electors ear, but it meant going behind to the extent of at least $178,768.58 in the period under review.

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Emile Cammaerts, Belgian poet and author, born this date 1878; after s successful literary career in his native land, he settled in Eng- land in r908, contributing largely to French publicadolls; he has translated several volumns of Ruskin into French, and is the author of Belgian Poems, New Belgium Poems, Messinrs and Olfler Poems: To the German Army:

I pray that every passing hour Your hearts may bruise and beat, I ilruy that every step you take May bruise and burn your feet. a a 1k is

Col. Fraser Fowler Fulton, son 0f Rev. R. G. Fult-Jln-fornler Minister of Trinity United Church here, who has been holding a highly- technical appointment at Canadian military headquarters in London since I943, has been promoted to the acting rank of brigadier. An electrical engineer in civilian life, Brig. Fulton has been an officer of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals since the outbreak of war and went overseas in I940. Mrs. Fulton and their two children live in the town of Mount Royal, His parents, Rev. R. G. and Mrs. Fill- ton, now reside at Brown's Flat. The Briga- dier was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the King's New Year's hon-

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Notes By The Way

“Industry and tun furnhh s market. for ea other, the size cf whl depends on the degree of t-hcfr nctlvt yfl-Agrfculture Beers- tory Olsude Wfckard. , A baby has been born 1n Ins Ange-lea after a record-breaking fixgnaney of 3'15 days. The war now reached the stage where Nature can't promise deliver h unfn

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At fact sometimes overlooked Is the 1n reaching the Rhlne the Al- lies have effectively smashed the vaunted Siegfried Iliue. As our London correspondent observed, 1t proves that 1n modern o static defence can resist a planned attack-Ottawa O tlzcn.

It 1s one thin: in ednscrlpt a Zombie. It 1s another thing to catch hlm. Let 111m learn that, having been caught, he cannot con- tinue to sit out thfa war 1n com- fort srld conduct himself accord- fsug to personal whim-Vancouver

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Then there 1s the porter In u Dublin hotel who, after K608131125 even meagre tips for 50 years, d1 recently leaving an estate for £10,- 000. Just another illustration that “it's the little things 1n life that count." - St. Thomas ‘Dimes- Journal.

Most of the mothers who stray Into cocktail bars for just one drlnik, but return home several days later, don't start. out to abandon their children. One drink leads to

and finally to the municipal court. —Dr. David B, Rotman, Chicago municipal court.

"It 1| of course, a. fact that the enemy has s. bigger war potential at his disposal but only from a material and not from a. moral viewpoint," says Dr. Goebbels. Havtng won the permanent cham- plonshlp of the Anllntus Club, the man evidently wants to get the name 1n the humorous anthologies tom-Brantford Expositor.

Himmler 1s credited with making a very strange statement, for a leading Naz1, 1n the organ of the Elite S. S. Guards, when he 1s quoted as writing: "Our present

osltlon 1s brought about not. only

y destiny nor even by the enemy's material man power superiority. There exists 1n our midst somethfng like a. guilt which 1s shared by ull of th1ngs....There are some guilty who misinterpreted the real aspect men among us whose ullt even exceeds the general gut ." Those are curious sentiments to come from him-Hamilton Spectator.

Sir James Grlgg, War Secretary of Great. Britain, 1s authority for the statement that two-thirds of the Canadian 1st Army ts compos- ed of troops of the United King- dom, The Lofrdon Dull Telegraph has also lmpllcd that. t e name of the Canadian 1st. Army has become a misleading title because of that. fact. Canadians do not desire that their country receive credit to which 1t ls not entitled; if th "Canadian 1st Army" ls no longo Canadian, that fact should be promptly ac- knowledged by Ottawa, and Can- ada set right 1n the eyes of the world.—" “ Spectator.

A new synthetic build ma- terial which combines the ‘Fffperfles of concrete and wood has beeh evolved 1n Britain. It 1s made by mlxlng sawdust with concrete. Hith- erto no way of "marrying" sawdust to concrete has been found-Amt British scientists have discovered s. chemical process which successfully blends them. The new wood-eon- crete can be‘ produced 1n bricks or sheets of any shape or size. It 1s especially suitable for interior Walls 01‘ 110110111118. since 1t can be sawn, drilled or nailed, exactly like wood. Unlike wood 1t does not warp, takes a hlgh glaze and can be stained any colon-St. Thomas Times-Journal.

All of us who prize freedom should make 1t very clear that while we are w1ll1n8 to accept reglmentatlon 1n time of war and even the people responsible for its administration, we are of no mind to have 1t per- manently inflicted upon us. The kovernment of the day has pledged

“The Atlantic campaign is the greatest caln- u ,1,

paign of this war, greater, I think, even than the Pacific Campaign. No other campaign has ranged over so wide an area", declares Navy Minister Angus Macdonald. Of the post-war navy the Navy Minister said it will comprise some 9.000 men-five times as large as Can- ada‘s navy in 1939. This figure will need ap- proval of the government at that time, but Mr. Macdonald says it is his belief that “until per- manent peace is assured the world, the defences of this country ought to be kept at a reasonable good strength and that means something con-

siderably above thgir ‘streligth before this war." w

In Sydney's (N.S.W.) milk famine the milking goat is no longer a popular object of de- risive scuffing. On the contrary, the domestic demand for it has reached an all-time record. Breeders, iii fact, are booking orders for pedi- greed stock long before the kids are born. On the register of the Milch Goat Society of N.S.W- are derails of more than I000 pedigreed Saaneii iililking goats, many of them owned by resi- dents of Sydney's suburbs. The actual number of milking goats in the metropolis of Sydney would probably run into 3000 or more, as only a small proportion of domestic goats are register- ed' u a s a

"Everybody seems to assume that most Can- adian airmen will want to continue flying planes after the war in commercial aviation. bl" the R.C.A.F. hu just taken n survey on the question, which shows some surprising re- sults," said Gerry Wilmot, when reading “Home News From Canada” to BBC overseas listeners.

He gave the following interesting facts about i:

the post-war ambitions of Canadian airmen.- “Oi more than 13.000 airmen. only H1 m i11- tcrested in being aviators after the war. The biggest group-IQOO, or about r airman out of io-lvanls to go in for engineering. Other ambitions range all the way from being le- countants. actors. and architects. 10 ship C89- tains and social workers- Fifllkm‘ W"! 1° 11¢ uiidcrtakers, and two said that they want most

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s to remove all current restric- tions at. the first favorable oppor- tunltg; and 1t 1s to be heartily com- men ed for having reached such a decision. It. must. be held to its promise. for such a disease as re- glmentatlon, with the formltls that accompanies 11. 1s difficult; to era- dicate, and so are the leglmente . -Brockv1lle Recorder and Times.

Canadians seem to be keeping themselves clean in wartime, or, lit It any raw. they have plenty to keep clean with. According to newly issued figures for 1943, soap production 1n Canada 1s running close to 240,000,000 pounds a year, the Montreal Gazet e reports. Ac- cording to the statistics, output of

tlet. son accounted for 33, 000 poun s of the total.

"115 Bil-Bluff’ was greatly exceed- ed by roductlon of laundry and househod soaps. soap powders and chips and flakes. Only 4,4 coo pounds of soft soapwere manufac- ured 1n 101d, but this excludes the metaphorical output during sessions cg] Itarllarnent and Provincial Leg- a ures.

The death ofEmlly Curr removes one of Canadas not too numerous artistic figures. She was a painter and writer of a strikingly orl lnal t . She loved to pafnt the In tans, wl h their lodges and totem poles, as they appeared on the West coast. The Indians called her "Klee Wycy" the Laughing One-and that 1s the name she gave her first book. Gan- ada 1s proud of the success of Emily Carr, but. should be humble about the manner 1n which she was treated. It was pertia unfortun- ate that she should vs chosen as her birth place Victoria-most conservative o Canadian cities. Osrtefnly her originality won 11t- tle 1n the we tfon. For more she ha 1.1m

n8 self and her blind sister. turned its polite noss up

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ds. The to Marius Bel-beau, the wsl 411mm anthropologist and collector of folk- lore, and he drew her work to the ntentfc

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n cf Eric Brown o ill.‘ fill. n Osrr wrote three h. or» a1's ‘literary, award. cheerful perseverance. The mulli-

tfonsl Art Gallery 1n Iomio vasses were on d 0y 1n n's capital, and later the wo sl awards 1n Inn . Later ons of which, "Klee Wyck” won the c" that 1 “gov at for 1t came, snd Miss 0m- lsd he: lng one 1nd the last touch. - r wndon Press.

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, DIODE TAX IITUINI ii

sin-rs. 1t not Ibtfglfv ttmo that‘. something was done 51mph! Chinese Puzzle urlth which w: are faced 1n rose-rd to hilcomo ‘fix rs-

the lush ram. but no one 1s stre- nuously objectlnl to this h

for those liable to tax,

those not liable to have to worry

over the complicated returns

slated on, 1s addfnz greatly to the

difficulty.

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YOURS FOR SIDDLIIIED

INCOME TAX FORMS. INCOME TAXES

S1r,-We are just - ted with notice of the t of one of the old Prlnce County mm‘- chants, showing total liabilities of 15s than $13,000, of which 88.- 000 1s income tax due the Federal Government.

It 1s not about time that the In- come Tax laws. or perhaps I should say the way these laws are Inter- preted by those authorized to en- force them, were given considerat-

n. The fact that those who sup~ plied the firm with funds and goods must pocket. the loss and permit. the Income Tax Depart- ment to take the meta under the claim that o. taxable profit. exists on which the Company has be- come insolvent, sinus the way things are being handled. I am. S11‘, etc. ONE OF THOSE EXPECTED

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___i__. COMMUNITY TRACTOR CLUB

5lr,-In the fall of 1943 u group of Rustlco farmers, per lexed by the shortage of help, go together to discuss ways and means by which they might solve their farm problems. After considerable dell- beratlon, and with the assistance received by the study of co-opern- tlve principles a group of twelve members decided to organize a Community Tractor Club. Contact was first made with Professor A. B. Mucdonald of Antlgonlsli who referred us to the Dept. of Agricul- ture of Nova Scotlu, which sup- plled us with by-laws and other material for the organization of such a club.

With the encouragement receiv- ed from Dr. Clark of the Provin- cial Experimental Farm, and Mr. W. R. Shaw, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, the work of organiz- lrlg proceeded without delay. A bourd of five directors Wns ap- pointed and the business of 11n- onclng the project followed. A cash payment of $360.00 was ool- ed by the members and the ba ance was borrowed from the local Cre- d11: Union.

First, was purchased an Inter- national H. tractor and a four sec- tion spring tooth harrows, the trac- tor being equipped with self-starter and I hts, maklnz 1t possible to operate the tractor day and night for three weeks.

The work was done so expediti- ously that. twenty farmers besides the members were nccomm " ted and 500 acres of land were harrow- ed with a double cut.

As the season advanced s. otato trallor sprayer with a ca acity of 200 gals. was purchased l-om the Hall Manufacturing» 00., Summer- sfde, P.E.I., and approximately 70 acres of potatoes were sprayed four tfmes.

In the fall of the same year‘, a three f u r r ow e r1 International plough was bought and 300 acres of lnnd were turned over thus accommodating twenty farmers.

Through the courtesy of Mr. W. R. Shaw, two young men from the community were granted the privi- lege of attendlng a slx weeks course on farm mechanics 1n Charlotte- town, After- the c-mpletlon this course these young men op- erated the tractor on ll. full time basis which policy is strongly re- commended as an Important fac- tor 1n the successful operation of a similar community project. Much credit 1s due to the e flctent great- dent and manager, Mr. Cyril uote, who was responsible for thelco- ordination of the work.

I am, Sir, etc. J. CLARENCE PITRE Rustico, P.E.I_

(Patriot and Suinmerside Agri-

culturlst please copy.)

bong before the fields are green,

Or tho blunt-ring winds are still;

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e 1 Of the coming springtime. lfstein you shall near.‘ In the open, windy places, 501111411113 bravely, far and near: Spring o’ the yesrl

Long before the a y clouds

(reuse to gather 1n t e sky.

Long before the driving rctuswruu I-fastcn by:

In the dreary. sodden meadows.

All you}? . hart-beats loll? c cer-

Hark, the mesdowlnzk 1s hi:

Song of glednsss, ole ‘ ,_ ear: sweet undue 1s hem!

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