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THE. CHARLUVTETQWN.-. GUARDIAN

QECEMBER 1,3942

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MONDAY. DECEMBER. ‘l. m: Protecting The Oyster

Canada's oyster production is becoming m- Jeasingly iflllmflllllt under the impact of war conditions which have stopped pllfCllfliei "f tasty shellfish from other COLUIIFICS: "Id “m5 added aiiciniim has been focused on the natural enemies of the Oyster family. ' _

To combat the nuisance “starfish removal’ is carried out with “mopping” the most c_ommo_n procedure. Recent tests made by flsheflti’ I61- enlists to chcclc the efficiency of this method 0f starfish control have brought mOSt satisfactory results. Mops are made from cotton waste tied m i; pie“ of wire, each mop being three or four feet long. A gong of mops-—-usually seven 0r gight~arc attached to one side of a heavy iron triangle iiicii-iiriiig fire or six feet to a side, and the gear is towed over the infested area by a motor boat. The starfish become entangled iri the mops and may be picked off by hand or kill- ed with lioi wzitcr. Two sets of mops are used by each boat, one being in operation on the bottom \\llll(_‘ ilic oihcr is being cleared of starfish.

The mops, according to scientists of the Fed- grail Fisheries Research Board, are effective in picking up siiiriidi Olltdlillf inch in diameter and larger, mid ll is. these sizes which are of most inipurtziiicc us oyster ciiciiiics. Smaller starfish can cause damage only to settled spat.

As a icst of the efficiency of the mopping nil-thud, 1.800 lllfllivtfl sizirfisli wcre set free on an ;\l'(‘.'l 0i nlliilll onc-iivciiiictli of an acre and mopping \\Zl~ L'lll'.'i\'(i out io secure data as to re- covery. lii lwu .iiid one-half hours of mopping 5o pct‘ cciir of lllc starfish were recovered. In i: lioiirs y: Iivr cont nf the total were recap- lurcd. lll zi ~iii ' cxpc-riiiiciii an additional 34mm iii;ii'I.\.l ~... i-li >ill>\\'L'(l ii YQCOVCFY of S0 pcr (tlli iii 1H hours of mopping.

Uysn-i- urc- llilvcli lll cannula on boili coasts. The .\llZlllllL‘, Prince l-Idwurd Island, Nova Sco- 1111 Zlllil .\'.~,-, llriinsivicl; ;ill produce oysters in

"life l.l‘.l'.ll|.l'.<, U11 lllC Pacific, Briiisii

unit-r» ,\i<-ld scvcrzil species. Increas-

l(l diiiiniiil k 11g rccciii months has brought a

(l’.'Cl(lC(l llI'ClC.'l>L‘ in Pacific oyster production

hiii cvcu yet ilic ioiiil C-iinzidizin production is 11m uifficivii: 1-» iiu-i-i Illl iiizirkct demands.

.\ iwpuri on ilii: fisheries of lllC Dominion for 194i cslllilulcs ilic (llllllllfy oi uystcrs caught and landed iii [hut ycui" at 59,197 barrels, with each barrel uvcrzigiiig :00 pounds capacity. This was 1m lllCl'('1i~(' of 31000 barrels over the previ- ous year's c;i!i‘li_

T00 Much Delay

fl-ic statement of Mr. Elliott If. Little on the reasons for his resignation of the post of direc- tor of National Selective Service, says the Ot- taiva Journal, needs to be studied by those who wonder why business executives so often find difficulty adjusting themselves to the Govern- ment service.

On June 3o, say; Mr. Little, after a confer- ence, with the Prime Minister, an understanding was reached of basic principles in the admini- stration of national selective service. It w" definitely understood that Mr. Little was to have charge of draft machinery, but the neces- sary Ofd€l'-lll-CflllllCll was" not issued for two months, and nothing more was done before Mr. Mitchell, the Minister of Labor, went to Eng- land, Transfer of labor employment office wn decided upon in July, and a month passed be- fore the formal order was issued. An official statement of policy agreed upon in August be- came “bogged d0wr1"-in the Minister's office and never saw the light of day.

The story is repeated time after time hi Mr.‘ Little's statement-delay, delay and still more] delay even in the implementing of declarations‘ by the Prince Minister on men-power and of, official decisions formally taken. In fut Jig only instance of speedy action was in Mr. Little's resi nation. At the request of Mr. Mlcllflllie éing he agreed to delay final action until the end of the week-Amt 9n Wednesday his resignation wu accepted.

Obviously no private business eould Se rm ii that sort of way, and r man whose training il in private business, who in accustomed to making decisions promptly and seeing them carried out, cannot tolerate the policy of procrastination

hicli hampered Mr. Little's term as head 91 {elective Service.

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Chickens Home To Roost

Commenting on last week's Federal try-election results, the Globe and Mail goes back a few months to get a fuller perspective. It says:

“On Feb. 9 Mr. King had s great day. Mr. Arthur lllciglien had been defeated in South York by Mr. josenh Noscworthy through a com- bination nf the King forces and the C.C.F. Al- though .\lr. King has no use for the C.C.F., he i-niicd with it tn beat the man who has been wnc of the most outspoken for total war.

“In the House of Commons that night Mf- (iiig cnicrcd to the (lCSk-flllllflflillg of his back- l).‘llCll(‘l‘S. lle was the hem. The conscriptionist llciglicii liiul born rlclentcrl. All was well with .\lr_ _l\'iii_i;'s world. Willi :1 joyful look on his furl; lic llizmltcil Suiilli York for getting i\lr.l

Mcighen out of the way. He had been fully endorsed. Or a0 he told Canada-

“Now the chickens are coming home to roost. In Outremont, Major-General LaFleclie, a con- scriptionist, with the help of the COIISQFYUIH/CS, was elected. But there was a large vote for an unknown candidate opposed to_l\Ir. King. In Charlevoix-Saguenay all the candidates who m any way supported Mr. King were defeated, and an Outspoken opponent of Mr, King's was elected. That was the first time since 1917 that any but a King supporter was elected there. And in Winnipeg North-Centre the C.C.F. candidate was elected by so large a majority that Mr. King's candidate lost his deposit. There was no Conservative candidate in the field. The labor policy of the Government and the Elliott Little resignation were issues in the campaign. It amounts to three repudiation: in three constitu- encies. In all, Mr. King's manpower policy was a basic issue.

By trying to be all things to all men, Mr. King has lost to all. His failure to deal with manpower has been attacked and repudiated. The real rub came in the Winnipeg North-Centre campaign. There Mr. King's candidate suffered a worse defeat than did Mr. hilcighen in South York. So the party that Mr. King built up only to defeat a man whom he hates has turned on him. The comparative results are interest- ing. In South York Mr. Meighcn was second to the candidate of the King-CCTV. forces with 11,951 to 16,408. In Winnipeg Mr. King's candidate received 4,718 to 11,858 for Mr. King's opposition.

"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.”

- Swedish ciiemlsifs

p EDITORIAL NOTES _.

Just about a fortnight to Christmas and such

a lot still to be done. 8

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It is on the cards, but not officially, that 1f- ter Christmas stores may open at 9 a.m. and close at 6 p.m.

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A profitable “wolf at the door." The Rev. Kenneth Clark, pastor of Holt Assembly of Ciod Church, Montana, found wolf tracks near the church door on going to church for morning; service. He followed thciii to a slrziivsiriclc. There he found and captured eight cubs. The bounty ivas $24. Mr. Clark bought new hvmii books for his congregation, and told them the better the day the better the deed.

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Through sun and storm, pczicc .'iiiil \\'.'1r, Rev.

Francis Rosslyii Bruce, Hurstiiioiicciiiix, Surrey,

always wanted to breed a green mouse. Fifty generations of mice contributed to his experiment before he succeeded. He uscd niiiicc of every color but green. \\'licn he finally dc-vcl-ipcil flu‘ gfCPii iiiousc—jiist 0iic-—'l1is ‘suiisfaicliciii ivzis complete. The rector of llLlYslllIUllCCLlllX u »u i. take it easy, from then on merely dabble in mouse-breeding. Then his tzilciif, unsurpassed iii this \\'0rld iii the fusciiiziiiiig profession of breeding fiiic mice, turned against liim. [Mr some time he had been toying with a brccd of pink rats. One morning when he wciit to cull on his green mouse, he found a pink rat in the cage. Soinconc had made a mistake. lizid c1;- posed the precious green mouse to ilic pink rut. It must have been lunchtime. The grccii mouse was no more. So today the disconsolate rector is back in harness, pursuing again the lost secret of his greatest triumph—the green mouse. v w w s

There is no more talk of a coalition in On- tario. The Telegram says: “With an elec:ion definitely on the horizon, Lt.C0l. George A. Drew, Conservative leader, will lead the party in the fight, Conservative authorities say, aiio he will not be _a contestant for the Fcrlcrzil leadership at the Winnipeg convention December 9-11. C01. Drew himself declined to discuss this phase of the changed political situation." T 11¢ news. paper said that an election was expected to fol- low the Provincial Liberal Convention which the caucus asked be held within two months of the Legislature session scheduled for early next year. The Telegram said that Conservatives interpret- e_d the decision of the caucus to hold a conven- tion u a want of confidence motion in the gov- ei-nmenbheaded by Premier Gordon D. Conant since Mitchell F. Hepburn resigned as premjci- a little ever s month ago.

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Mf. I. Stanley Halperln, tax consultant and president of the U.S.A. Federal Tax Forum, told the 14th mid-year trust and banking con- ference of the New Jersey Bankers Association that the 194s Revenue Act continued a 10-year

;govemmer1tal trend to discourage accumulation

of large estates. "It ii quite possible that in the not too distant future," Mr. Halperin said, “we may see attempts to limit the amount of wealth which In individual may transfer by gift or bl- quat- With the present salary limitation order, and the ulble legislation to limit all incomes to a net o $25,000, regardless of the source from which it ll derived, certainly no fortunes can be made during this war. Initead the high rates of taxation an tending to reduce these fortunes which have already ‘been acquired and a steady decrease in estate and gift tax exceptions now increases the eoit of transferring large estates. In short, increased estate and gift faxes are dis- tlni: possibilities h: the pear future." n-

Lbbegbtt Friedrich Konstantin vori Tlshendorf, German Bibical critic, died this date, 1874; one of the first advanced Liberal critics who helped to centre in Germany s. reputation for German theological scholarship; was a professor at Leip- zlg University; issued twenty-four critical edi- tions of the New Testament; was discoverer of the Codex Sinsiticus at Mount Sinai consisting at first of forty-three leaves; he kept the place of the discovery secret and published the frag. rnenfl in I846 dedicated to the than King of Saxolly; Pr! a later visii to Sinai he got access to the remaining page: of the precious Codex and Peflllidsd the monks to present it to the Tsrir of Russia at whose cost it was published in 1862 in b"? ‘mlllmes; Side by side with his industry in collecting and collating l\l..\‘..\". Tisliciiilorf pursued a constant course of editorial labours, mainly mi ilic New Testament, iiiiiil lic \\.'l\ brqk. cn down by overivork ill i873.

NOTES BY TIIE WAY j

A merchant navy olilcer protests in tine daily press against the habit. of reierruig to a master manner as "skipper? This is a designation given by the Admiralty w the master o! a fishing vessel sailing under the White Ensign. In the, Royal Navy, however, the navali captain at sea ls colloquially spok-l ‘e11 or as “The Skipper" or ‘The Owner." -.P0rt o! Inndvzi Month- 11'. l A Polish soldier ltatlfllled It l- icamp In Palestine saw an qlsht- I year-old boy, and recognized him b5 [his son. The boy did not know his own name. That. 1s one incident that ty lfies the dispersion of tho s of Poles, who have been moved out of Russia lnbo Persia, Egypt, India, East African Kenya and Uganda, and the Holy Land. a.- mong other places-Overseas News AQCXICY. '

One of the uru ctacular but none the less pleas g episodes or, Tuesday's balloting occurred in Utah. where the voters of the state repudiated by a count of more than two to one a law passed last year| which would have placed a pun tlve tax on chain storm-New York Herald Tribune.

Strangler Lewis, famous wrestler. ivrmls to be a Commando Falling that he should make a fair med- him tank. -Pcterborough Bitumin- er.

Waitresses may not be the ones |who make the, soup, but some o! them have a finger in it. —St.rat- lford Beacon-Herald.

No Nobel Prize this year. The inventions -- dynamlte, blasting gelatin and balllstlt/e, the forerunner oi’ oordlte _have got rather out of hand at the moment. All the same, his dream of a fraternity or nations land pence on 011-111 may be nearer to fulfilment It's gotta be, adds The New York Times, or good-bye civilization,

To a. small restaurant in the West. Fifties, last week, came a soldier on furolugh, and his bride. [They had been married a few hours earlier "I missed one thing," lslghcd the bride. ‘I always wanted [the kind of iveddkig where some- "one slugs I Love You Truly‘. and =‘0li_ Promise Me "' A blonde at [the next. table volunteered to sing ‘those songs The iveidlng rariy prepared to listen, And so the Met- ‘ropolltnn Wagiierlan soprano, He!en lTraubel, left her companion the general manager of the Met- ropolitan Opera Hand sang. with- ‘out any zi"ci>nii*1ii‘viicnt, those two sohzs for tho soldier and his bride. l-New York Post

Bachelors are all selfish. states istrlckland Gillian 1n Your Life |Mn=zaz1ne. And with all thrt so I- entlous statement. I have longed lthe furlcs of Topfiict rimoug the 'n<~ver married men. B111 I stick to my guns Tliry don't knoiv they are selfish, biii they are. They can't help it. Marriage was invented to icure or avert. seifistiness Some of ‘my dearest friends (that ls, they iwcro and will re until this air-pears illl print: are bachelors. I love them idcnrli"; yet rvcry fmv m'nut.=s when I am enjoying ihdr dclhhtl-rl so- ciety. a spot cf finality in some of their opinions -s:me assumption of lnralllbility —p£)p5 up and I hear| myself saving. “If you had been| married, that czrkiitcss wou‘d have‘ been taken out of you If urozierlv, married, to the right girl. it would have been painlessly removrd, but. 1t would have been gone " It takes. a wife to make a man humble will‘.- out humilfsitiiiz him, if vou get lt. Mari, alone, ls incomplete. Only one who-is saiiely married Ls is fullv rounded hrrnan being

The coast which we are occupy- ing bristles with n1viil bases The more important stiticris are at Oran. Algiers and Bona, in Algeria -a.nd at Blzerta. in Tunisia. Blzerte ls the strongest of them all and the most threatening to Italy Just back n! the coast ls an excellent network of railways reaching all the way frcm Safl, on

e Atlantic coast, to the Gulf of "ml; at Sfiix. site of a. Ilne afr- lield which llhe Italians are said to be using Other military ulrflelds clot. the coast and the plateau im- mediately behind it RPWTYKT are the towering Atlas Mountains and the vast reaches or the Sahara. But the uhole effective econom or the French African colonies l es in the coastal fringe, the ancient empire of Carthage. {that falls to us we villl gain full strategic control of the entire area -_New York Times.

The military authorities want all the deer pelts they can obtain, to provide buckskin gloves, helmets and flying jackets for our fighting arlmen, relates The Portland Oreg- onian. An 1mm mentioning this need already has brought offers of several hundred hides to the office of the state guano commission. If other states where deer are huited do as well as Ore 0n ought to. there should be bucksk r1 enough for the sky armada we are constructing of the multltudlnous planes that will

lve the United Nations air control

every theatre of the global war. How extensive this resource ls may best be realized by consulting the records of deer and elk killed last year Of deer there were close to 31,000. the total being partially est!- mated: of elk. by actual count. there were 3.7411. The tally of nntel need not be consldere, for it 1a as d they provide most indifferent lea- itie-r But these figures, which are reliably approximate, attest our pos- session o1’ another natural resource important to modern warfare - moro important pemapa than ft. was when our handy woods-ran g forefathers wore fringed bucks in. Ir you have a deer hide now or later. you ought to know what to do with ft

The other day I met a man whom I have known tor several years. a man who has always earned his liv- ing the 11m way -from hacking ties to pitching bundles, He 1s a che sort and it ls said that he invar ably sings at his world ‘e had Just returned from atlsliitlzig a farmer st his harvest. Before he shook hands with me he mowed me ds, remarking: that. I em not a bad . Those fellows as a rule, have nlce soft hands." He then went on to relate an exiperl- ence which hehad in Winn! eg some years agoI-Ieaald that he ad just come in from the woods and took a room in a hotel He further stated that he had a check for $250, and as he needed moncv immediately he presented the die-ck to the owner of the hotel. who looked it over and risked for identification, add- liig, "T don't kTOW who you are." "I wld him." continued the man who ma: at hll work, "that the

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PUBLIC FORUM

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PROMOTING an INDUSTRY

Slr,—I feel sure tiiatwu u well as the general iibllc will be snit- ious to know w trees: we I." having ln the bee indus I would like w point out that. urlnl the past season there has been IPPTPX‘ imaiiely twenty (20) tom of honey

llectfid by bees 1n this province. This was a very much larier W0- ductlon than we had in our peak year o! 1840 when approximately

9. pounds were recorded.

We are promoting this industry by paying a bonus oi’ $10.00 to any party purchasing $2500 worth o! bee equipment and presenting re- celpt for same m this Department- we undertook this not only ior the honey that would be procured. though I ieel assured it justifies the expenditure, but also for the pollination or blossoms 1n our orchards, gardens and field crops. It is difficult to ascertain just what progress has been made along the llne or pollination. Honey la at present serving a very useful pur-| pose due to the ration on sugar.

We would earnestly solicit the general public to consider the ad- visability of going into the bee in- dustry and. realizing some revenue on same.

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W. l1. DENNIS Minister o! Agriculture

POST-WAR CONDITIOIIS

slTr-I reed with much mterest your quotation 1n the issue o! Dec. 1, tiilnn from 8.71 address delivered to the Hamilton Canadian Club by Mr. Walter P. Zeller, proprietor of Zellers’ Limited, Montreal. Mr.- Zeller thinks that government eon- tml 01' both our political and economic freedom should be dis . continued after the war is over, and the country, its industries and its labor problems left to work out weir ow-n salvation. I do not agree with Mr. Zeller in that res- pect at all. Any government which can control the llvea and re- sources o! their country during a berlod of war, certainly can do the same only in n much better way in times or peace.

Speaking of our own province 11"! city. we cam see scores of iamlles who previous to the present war were living of! the dole system, and getting scarcely enough to keep body and soul together. Now they are enjoying a. little real prosper- ity. Do those people want to be once more thrown on their own re- sources and go through that soul- rackirig poverty again. “hen m“ country has thoroughly demon- strated that abundance of money can be provided for anvthlns it is required for ? Certainly one of the most worlhv causes ls to PYODBYIY nourish. clothe and educate 0111‘ children.

Yes I say by all means let the Government hold control over our economic lives. and see that our working men grid women are ade- » quatclv compensated for their a- hors henceforth. g