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‘The Strongest Memory la Weaker Than . the Weaken! Ink.’

TUESDAY. MAY D, 19M

Rte-establishment Plans

The ivliole Canadian post-war program, part of which is already in force and part of which is atill under discussion by Parliament, is reviewed in a Series of articles issued by the \\t'artime Prices and Trade Board. The program, as outlined, is intended to pf0\'i(lu three utaiti things. First, assistance to the individual veteran t0 reestablish him or her in pfiICCllIIIt’ Canada and to help make up for the time spent away from civilian life and for iuiy physical disability. Second, a plan of reconstruction of the economic system to provide full optiorttiiiities for productive citi- ployiiiein and for the development of Canadian resources. 'l‘hird, a program of social security providing insurance against the fiéliS 0f llllclll‘ ploynieiit, sickness, old age, and wecial family burdens.

The first of these three, Rehabilitation, is of the earliest llIlpOflZllICC to the cx-servicclnan- Provisions for it are the furthest advanced of any of the [iosi-tvai- plans. This article deals with the rehabilitation measures which are part of the law already iuid ivitli further provisions which are iioiv under consideration.

Plans were begun soon after the ivar broke out, Qii December 8, 1931), a Cabinet Commit- tee on Deitiobilizatitui atitl Rcestablishiiieiit was appointed. U11 August i0, 1940, an atlvisory committee on the same subject was established, with representatives from the tiiain government departments concerned. In addition, the Special House of Commons committee on Reconstruc- tion and Ito-establishment, first set up on March 24, 1114.2, and the Special Senate COlllllIlftCE on Economic ltc-estziblislimeiit, first set tip on March 5, 19.13, have given attention to problems 0f rehabilitation. Folloiviiig the studies and recommendation. of these committees. various law and orders have been passed. and now are being carried out by the armed services. them- selves, bv the llQllitfllllClll. of Pensions and Na tional llenlth, by the Department of Mines ant Rcsotirt‘ t and bv the Department of Labor.

.\ systcni of financial grams t0 veterans f0‘

technical and for tiiiiversity training is in op eratfon already. Also in operation is a systenl of grants to tide veterans over while they are looking for suitable jobs or setting themselves up on their own. .\botit 8,000 grunts of all these types have already been made to service 111011 and women who have been discharged dllflllfl the ttotirse oi the war; of these grants more than 3,000 liaic hrcn for training. Loans, and grants of laud and etiuipiiiciit, are made t0 those who are (qualified to go on the land. as a ftill or part time occupation. Veterans’ welfare officers have been stationed in many centres throughout Cati- ada to adris veterans, and, along ivith National Selective Stntittg to help them find suitable jobs. Pension provisions have been broadened, increas- ing the amounts payable and extending the grounds on which irciisfons are awarded. The provisions for free medical care, and for money allowances for hospital patients and their de- pendents, have also been broadened.

New Appointments

Coiigrzittilatitins ;ir_e due Lt.-Coiiiiiiaiider Frederic .\. Large and llon. \\". I’. A. Stewart on their illltllllllllllCllt$ respectively as Attorney‘ General and .\liiiister of Agriculture. .\lr. blew- art as a tiietiiber for the First District of l§itig's, m“ rake over his portfolio at any time. .\lr. Large, presuni.'ibl_v, will be iii an acting capacity until a ssat is opened for him and he is returned by the electorate. The Attorney Generalshiti is one of the most important portfolios in the Gov- ernment. It is true that the present Chief Justice once filled the position ivhile outside the House, btit this ivtts only until the next election a year later.

.\lr. Large, though still a. young niaii has had valuable legal experience both as Crown Prose- cutoi- and as personal relations officer of H. .\I. C5. Stadactnizi zit llalifax. Ile is well known and esteemed. and the best ivishcs of everyone will iltfflllllllllly hint iii the discharge of the re- sponsible duties he is assuming.

.\lr, '.\'tcvr;trt is rt veteran parliamciitariziii and farmer. llt- is witlPlv read as well as experienced. and with a ll.l_‘l,_"'l'llllllfl which should be of great advantage l1» hint in his new office. Thcrc is every rrztsoti 1.. lrclicve that he will proi: 1i sound and pi'o_';i'e.>i\'e atliiiinistrator.

Not _Socialism

llnu. \\':iltcr Nash, Deputy Prime .\linister of New Zcaland and Minister to Washington, has written a book about his country in which he extolls Labor reforms. But he says nothing about sticizilism. The means of production are not being soc alized. The Labor (iovcriiiiiciit has cnnct-iitrated 0n social sectirity, with old age, pensions. health instiratice, low cost hospitaliza- tion and other sectirity measures which are, it I5 truc,.in zidvance of those in most cottntries. But the untlerly-itig (‘CUHOIIIIC system which pro- dtices the income to pay for these things is cap- italism. .\lr. Nash defines the principles of his Labor party without mentioning socialism. New Zealaiid has steadily expanded its social welfare program along with its war effort, but its ivar production program has not been based mi the collective, or socialist, principle. Against the principle of taxation according to ability to pay, one finds in the New Zealand record a 2o per cent sales tax, dating from 1042, with elx- emptioiis for "items entering into the faintly budget." New Zealand has no extreme of wenltli-"lr-ss lllnn one per cent 0f iiictinie tax- payers lIZl\'(' incomes oi 2000 pounds or more per annum." 'l‘ht-rc are no extremes of poverty. Bu; these features are traditional, not Labor's lehievetiieiit.

the Labor Government retainedoffiee, but with a reduction in majority. Opposition to the Gov- ernment rose not because of social security measures, but because a wing of labor wantgt] more Government interference in business, tiiore socialism. There is a great difference between a Government which seeks to produce the great- est national income and to secure the fairest dis- tribution of that income, and a Government which would make itself supreme, regimenting allll ‘llalflfill Slave-S 0f the pe0ple—for their own good. of course. Labor is in control of d“; Government in New Zealand, but it is not a government such as the socialists plan for Canada.

EDITORIAL NUItS _

__Are we to be left behind in the appeal for Victory Bond investments?

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Topping the tallest builtflltg in Halifax by one storey the new Victori. General Hospital, for ivliicli a federal government permit for con- struction was granted some time ago, will be a 15-storey structure. \\"ork will not begin titt- til negotiations for priorities on construction itietterials have been completed.

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When Prime Minister King is making his scheduled address to the British House of Lords and the Commons, says the Montreal Gazette, we trust that Viscount Bennett, if present with the fortiier body, will not absent-mitidetlly llll~ agine himself back on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. He might be impelled to hcekle Mr. King or get up and make a vigorous address in reply, as he used to do as Conservative leader in Canada.

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The response to the appeal for requisites for the good ship Charlottetown ivhich is due to ar- rive liere soon, lags somewhat. Citizens should consider it a point of honour as well as privilege to be permitted to contribute to the requirements of lI..\l.C.S. Frigate Charlottetown, and we feel sure this just heeds to be drawn to their atteii- tion to be complied with. In a local item iii this issue some 0f the articles needed are mentioned. telephone ring to Lieut. (Tommaiitler .\lzic- ‘lwnlie, 00b is all that is necessary in the first instance.

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John Brown, American abolitionist, born this date 1800; in 1855 tilaycd lIIlPOflZIlIl part in the "lkntaivatomic Massacre" during border strife iii Kansas and Missouri; he organized a plot to free the slaves of Virginia; in October 1851) he seized Harper's Ferry; was wounded, tried by court-martial, and hanged; he is the subject of llle once popular song, sting during the Civil \\‘ar, and still heard in student and other gather- iiigs:

"john Brown's body lies a-mouldering in

the grave

But his soul goes marching on."

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How hard the war has hit the foruierly well- to-do llritisher. It has come to this already —- soon they may be on relief. Some of their lortl- ships are financially so hard up they are tiiiable to zttteiid important sessions of the llouse of I.0t'ds, Viscount Craiiborne declared in announc- ing that financial support would be sought from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It was ex- plained that members of the aristocratic house serve without pay atid it was hoped to obtain for them allowances for travelling expenses} .\le1iihers of the House 0f Commoiis get 40o pounds per aiinuiii and railway fares.

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This is significant. In Quebec Legislature a motion was introduced by a National Unionist criticizing the Godbout Government. .\Ir. Dit- plcssis said the Bloc Populaire and other such movements, were really offsprings of the Liberal party, pretending to quarrel with the parent body btit always playing the Liberal game. l\[r. Rene Chalnut, Bloc Provincial, Lothiniere, said he could not vote for the amendment, since iu his opinion the government had always given in- formation desired, and as diligently as possible. “just what I said," commented Mr. Duplessis. "Notice the Bloc and the Liberals getting to- gether." The amendment was voted flown, 41 to i3.

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Ari embargo on shipments of hogs to the Clii- cago stockyards was ordered by the hog mar- keting committee effective inimetliately. A “ter- rific" rim of more than 30,000 hogs and fresh salable receipts of 17,000 jammed the yards and there was an estimated holdover of 20,000 head. The heavy shipments resulted from floods and feed shortages. News of the American action comes close on reports from the Canadian West of a record run of hogs there. .'\t Calgary the most serious congestion iii the history of the local stockyards occurred at niitl-Atiril and the situation was further complicated there by short- age of hclp in packing and slaughtering establ- ishments. This, in ttirii, cam: right on top of

Tu1c__r.i1'_itiu.6jj1-:‘i"owiv GUARDIAN IIIIlllrlIIIIII/II). l i -

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llotos By Tho Way

Btu travel In wartime label all the mystery out. of the lnexnauat- pralle seuanhaln ‘tint: Rlngllhg show —

e one 1 t isuorze ' ' .- Uetroit News. s “W”

The wordlness of the debates at Ottawa ls appalling. It ta brfngttig PBYIIGIIWAIL into disr pute. Many o! the speeches by member are not. directed to those 1n the House at an but to the ears of distant elec- tors. Parliament's vcr lty ma ‘also be traced to its fallure to face real issues bromntly and forth- ruzntly—as for example Issues Ike waste and extravagance In govern. merit departments. Small wonder l-hflltblllllklllll meiaibegs of par-its. men are ooncerne a out. proceed- tnzs 1n the House. P served Canada well; ll m preserve and Irulde our democrat-lo traditions was never stronger than it today It must. adorn: those reforms of lts own rules which w.ll lensble It to voice clearly the ex- ftlresslon of the natlonal wllI.—Wln- nlpeg 'I'r1bime.

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When we have seen photographs of _Canad1an soldiers on service durinsz the ltenlan raids of nearly CIRIIIY vears ago. 1t was difficult to |bcuove that such neavllv bearded iiien were reallv as vounu as was |claimed. These doubts of lam: standmz have. however. been enc- led on recelvlriz pictures of some of our youthful friends, with slmillar lfaclal adornment. that have bcen {taken on the alirin front. Tlirrv |look us i1_ tnpv came out. o1 an old Ontario family album that. was

century-Edmonton Journal.

Unless you get busy, the flrst will be your envv of the neighbor's trunk to turn green this Summer sardcns.—lsitchenei' Record.

when asked how they got out of their oppressed homeland, Norweg- llfln flyers reaciuitg Canada saiu: "un skis‘ AHOKU 1s time danger of the Nazis deriving 11inch coni- iort tfCllI young men W110 are as ulrscieet. its tney itrc.-rfu1nlll.0n bnectawr.

There is nothing more perverse and lllllLlluual/t-dilll} man Asher-mains fuck. Qum€tIIlIt3S the ieJow with n can of wornts ant. a art/punt: for u rod inns nno nu the tuck anti catches a niie string, of spa’. ..t. beauties. n. I5 at urea. tnriu for sucn a fisherman an sttch an oc- casion tu meet. on ILIS tray home a party 0t luuv accounted tin-a canin- 1X30 and tllhflly Dlalltildtll. iisner- men wno nave had lust. no luck at. ttl.-—1‘t0t. even B. lute. LIIlXI. l5 one 01 me uulllllellfiatltills tutu. sometimes tan to me lot. OI tne ILIIIA -..ni-.i.eur. wen, anyway. tne season is on again. nets an go usnmlz.—Fu1. vvlaumi ‘limes-Journal

There Is much talk these flay; of juvenile UGLIIIQIIBIICF- acme 0f‘ the WFILEPS CltHIII Lflfll. MIG WITJIG 05H... ls due to lacs cf nome tralmzrtz. abut. may be partly responsible. but. rte 1.1mm the Covernunent must. take some of me blame for It. u..- iows me most obscene novels m circulate in tne country wmcli tend to COITUIDL the minds or voilmt beo- ‘bte. some o1 me docks on the market. are not. [It to rcau, and snottld be banned. Now and again one hears o1 magazints beinfz icr- bictden circulation in Canaan, out It; is ume now to turn attention to suns c1 tne illtriv novels that have a wide sale-Shelburne Coast Guard. .

It is comforting to know that the R. C. M. P. are right on the lob, but occasionally they may be a blt too zealous ‘lake me recent case in a Western city. A Mountle tn- tered a drug store and asked. "That soldier who was 1n licre-wvas h: aii_r duper" "lne druggist siiook his head, “Wellf said tne Mountle, "he‘s been 1n half a dozen crux stores along the street. He acts sus- picious, ‘flint haggard. anxious look l5 ii sign of ivantiiitt dime." The OIIlgRl-EL laughed. "Sure the soldlsr 1s narzitard and anxious." he said. "The pcoi; fellow is afraid tie Wlll lose his girl If he can't. sometlme turn up with a box of chocolates. but. no store along the street has any. Unis cnocolate zhortaze 1s making things tough for voumz teLows endured m \v0.iln1t-"—'I‘he Prlrittd Word.

The Countess of Chlehestcr. whose husband, the eighth earl. was killed 1n a motor accident Feb- ruary, has given blith to a son in London. The hlarldc-m of Qhtchester 1s therefore preserved In direct line. It‘ tne countess‘ child had been a tzlrl the title would have Dnssed to 69-year-old the Hon. H, G. G. Pel- mim. of Ring near Lewes. an uncle of the late ealrl. I-Ie waited for the birth before taklntz over the earldom and sald a few days before he hoped the child would be n boy. —— Transcontinental Imntlon Daily Mall.

Vancouver Islanders and thou- sands of Deflflle all over the world who have vlslted this Dart of Brit- ish Columbia will welcome Premier Hart's HJYIIOIIIICCmCIIY. that 111s Gov- ernment does not intend to Deimt Cathedral Grove - that. magnific- ent statid 01' timber, the like 0i which none of us here will sce again-no be sacrificed on the altar of industrial profit. As Mr. Hart. quite Droberlv uolnts out. there is a simple wctv for the new owners of the tlmioei‘ area of which Cnthcdrzl

the news that Canadian storage holdings of pork at March 1, this year, broke all records in the Dominica's history with over 100,000,000 pouiidsl of that meat Only being shown in official re-| ports. Catiadiaits have partly cased thc sittia-l tion by a lElllpOFZIfy lifting of the meat ration but in the Ciiitetl States action in this direction has so far been confined to a liberalizing of the existing restrictions.

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There must be some unfortunate misdirection in our agricultural affairs at Ottawa. 'l‘wo or three years ago western farmers were subsidized to abandon a large percentage of their wheat acreage and to adopt mixed farming, which meant competition, with Eastern and Maritime farmers. Now we are told there is the prospect of a wheat shortage at the end 0f 1945, There is, the Agricultural Department tells us, after this year's crop is garnered, a prospective wheat store of 630,000,000 bushels. Take frnni this, first, the 100.000.0011 bushels which is the niini- iruim domestic requirement. Next there will go to the United States the unprecedented volume of at least 200,000,000 bushels. Next comes a. substraction of 230,000,000 bushels as the prob- able export to Britain. So there \\'0lIlfl remain iint over 100,000,000 bushels of wheat. So there will be, accnrtliiig tn wheat experts. a carry-over ,-u 1h.- out] of the next crop year, n1‘ at Julv 3i, i945, of not much over 100,000,000 bushels. as :'r:i’ii~t .'i carryt-nver of (KXLOOOIXX) bushels at

Grove forms u "mart to conform to popular demand: and that ls to take other property elsewhere tn eitehange. But the Premier and his colle es are obvlouslv determined to cal a halt to those practices with regard to our timber resourc- es o-f which we are all too often rtminded bv so many lIBUflt. rtm- nants of mlst-uken nrodlgnlltip- Vleborla Tunes.

rubllahers compelled by the paper shortage to adopt. a new make-up for newspapers or mag- azlnzs can now determine by means of a new sclentlflc reading test. whether a new format. ls eas- Ier or more difficult; to read than the 01d. says The New York Tlmu. Dr. Stella S. Center of New York University reports that. the war- time format. cue newspaper trade Journal wltli narrowed col- umns and more legible type ls sixteen per cent easier to rend. selecting sixteen adults for the experiment. she photographed their e e movements and discovered that. tfie new format could be read at. the rate of 338 words per minute. ccmpared with 290 word; per mln- ute for the old. A slight. Increase ln comprehension of the materlal ln the new format was also noted.

Two Norwegians, Cnptaln Myrlinll and R. A. Elness, both from Trond- hekn, have patented a new type of ship's pump considered one cf the greatest lnventlons hi Norway In recent years. The pump ls oper- ated by the beating of the waves on m; ship's side, a imwe half u metre lilgh ma lng the pump elect one ton of Wu er a minute. The

July 31, i943, or a total shinkage within two

In last fall‘. general election in New Zealand

years of 500,000,000 busliela.

pump can be used far all vessels under 8.000 tofu and l; claimed tn

arllzunent has 1;;

started about. the middle of last t",

Answer Refused By Mr. Howe

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(Worn the Offlclal Report of the Home of Commons for Aprll 2 Mr. Dlefenbaker: I should like to ul: (Mr. Howe) the ques- tlon whether the at: convention which was Placed on I-Iansard on March 1'! was prepared before the Beaverbrook conference or con- sultation or converaatlon, what.- EV" l! the proper description, or whether lt was Ilpflfed after the consultations the took place among

the nations of the Empire.

Mr. Howe: I think that ls hard- ly a falr question.

Mr. Dlefenbaker: Well, Mr Chairman-

Ml‘. Howe: What. do.you mean inns It typed before or typed af-

Mr. Dlefenbaker: 111st ls the usual way the mlnlster has of an- swering. Was It prepared before the Beaverbrcok conference?

Mr. Stirling: Was 1r. born?

Mr. Dlefenbaker: Was lt born. the hon. member for Yale says, or was it conceived In the confer- ence and born afterwards? That ls what we are trying to flnd out. because It ls very Important that. the committee-

Mr. Howe: Suppose I say "yes"

or “nci" What difference does 1t make? Mr. Diefenbaker: That; ls not what the minister 1s here for. r. Howe: What 1s the lion member here for? Mr. Diefeiibaker: The minister

ls here to give us information in regard to this problem. It ls ma- ul to know ivhether this con- vention was a cohventlon repre- senting Cattadtvs viewpoint as presented to the Beaverbrook con- ference, or ivhetliei- lt was a con- vention based on the understand- higs arrived at, generally speak- ing. tit the conference. I ask him the categorical question.

Mr. Howe: I suggest to my hon. friend that he assume that it was. and that lt was not. and then ex- pound bath situations and tell us where he arrives.

Mr. Dlefenbaker: The minister's attitude is not the attitude of a mlnlster endeavorlng to glve 1n- formation on events. That ap- pears to be a continulrig attitude shown by the minister toward members of this House and to- wards the country as a whole. I um asking lilm the categorical question as to whether or not the conventlcn presented to the Beav- erbrook conference ls Canadab at- tltudeih“.

Mi‘. Howe: In other words, you want to know the details of a privatg international conversation. An hon. Member: No.

Mr. Diefenbaker: One knows the answer now, and the answer ls that this convention was the stand that: Canada took before the conference. I ask the mlnlstc! to challenge that statement If It is not true. I now ask the min- ister this question: was or was not Canada definitely opposed In U11; conference to an Empire set- UP