‘THE GUARDIAN

‘ Morning Dally (Founded in 1881i. Authorized a Second Clue Mail, Poet Office Department. Ottawa. Preaident, Ian A. Burnett; Vioe-Preaident, Wm. It. Barnett; Seep-Tread, G. M. Burnett; Editor and llonr‘ _ Director, J. B. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

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"Tlrefifrongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest lnk."

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liiorils Without Action

Nat the least notable feature of the Prime Minister's speech to the Advisory Council of the National Liberal Federation was his denuncia- tion of communism. Fortified by the positions taken by Mr. Churchill, President Truman, Primfi Minister Attlee and many other democratic ‘lead- ers, he has now, as has been his custom, aligned himself with prevailing sentiment-

This has not always been _ Even when unmistakable indications _ _ uncovered, disclosing organized espionage in this country by Russia, with the use of members of the Canadian Communist Party as instrument. Mr. King was loath to believe bad about our northerly neighbor. ln his speech to the House of Commons on March l8, i946. LIB “PYGFEEd the hope that no one in a responsible position would advocate ste-rn treatment of the Russians. "We in Canada." he "em °". ""1"" °"lY ll“? best of relations with the USSR, as we do with every other country, and we must not be too ready to judge until we know all the circumstances connected with the particular situation." Then he made his famous offer: v

"l did think at one time of going to Russia myself and of speaking with Generalissimo Stalin in reference to it. What I know, or have learned o; M,‘ Sfulll" from those who have been closely associated with him in the war, causes me to believe that he would not countenance action of this kind on the part of officials of his coun- try. l believe that when these facts are known to him and to others in positions of full re- sponsibility, we shall find that a change will come that will make a vast difference indeed.

l am prepared to take any step at all that may be deemed advisable with a view to hav- ing it cleared up in a manner which will not only maintain but strengthen friendly relations with that Great Power."

Lost week the climate had so far changed that he said this: "So long as communism re- mains as a menace to the free world. ii’ l5 Ylilil to the defense of ‘freedom to maintain a pre- ponderance of military strength on the side of freedom, and to secure that degree of unity among the nations which will ensure that they cannot be defeated and destroyed one by one."

The Globe and Mail points out that when Mr. Winston Churchill said something at Fulton, Missouri, the import of which was precisely that, not a word of approval emerged from Ottawa. Canada's occupation force was thereafter with- drawn from Germany, and since then the mod- est peacetime establishment of our armed forces has been cut by 25 per cent, largely to hide the failure of our recruiting policy. lt is almost im- possible to get from the Government a clear statement of what its defense plans imply, or even what its military advisers regard as mini- mium requirement-s.

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Whale meat is 'now arriving in this Prov- ince for fcx feed, but in Great Britain it is coming into use for human consumption. Strange new recipes are being tried out by women cooks working in a series of small kitchens in Portman Square, London. Whale meat and venison are only two of the ingredi- eiits they are eioperimentng with. The cooks are employed by the ministry of food to work out new dishes and menus, so that the austerity diet of the people’ of Britain, who are now more tight- ly rationed than they were in the darkest days of the war, will be as varied as possible. Their iob is to prepare tasty dishes that use a mini- mum of fot (the cooking fat ration per person is one ounce a week), very little milk (an adult gas two pints a week), and preferably no eggs since allocation is made only when eggs are available.

.4 The experimental kitchens are small, the idea being to use only the facilities of the aver- rige small home. The cooks at the experimental kitchens all have domestic economy degrees and have had practical experience in selected h-omes, where they have leained first-hand of the tre- mendous difficulties facing housewives in Britain ‘today. When the cooks have worked out their recipes lii detail and tried them out on a team of experts, the recipes are given to the newspapers, -magazines and the radio, everywhere, in fact, where they will catch the attention of house- ‘wlves. . I When Britain first began to use whale meat, two Norwegian cooks come over to as- sist, but the Ministry of Food girls had to adapt "all their recipes because the Norwegian recipes contained more fat than was available. Old irecipes for such things as boiled pigs’ trotters "are also being revived.

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Fariii Psychology

some reflections of»a farmer surveying the qmsent economic picture are thus given

‘by the Lethbridge Herald: " "He's the only man‘ who is under price ceil- "lngs by reason of food contracts negotiated by Ithe Government. Ho}: the only man who isn't ‘allowed to airport his own produce. And he's ' the man who is the butt of all the consumers’ ‘in over rising prices. He hears all the clamor whenever the price of park chops goes up, but he h never hoard of any of the general con- umersf-iileapuel making any representations to Oltaw ‘GWIMIIIIIP about the increases in fdllljpqfilhlflflflild jiniets, iariii machinery, boots iii. lng,t lei of itulor the high eon " ‘ ‘Aiidhljreeetientobll

his attitude. were

this is that, seeing he's not being given very much encouragement to produce nor a word of thanks because Canadians are eating bread from wheat that's a good deal more than a dollar under the prices which Canada is getting for all wheat sold to countries other than Britain, he had better conserve his resources and not go all-out in production. If what he is doing is not going to be appreciated, why get in a lather about producing more? .

"lt's not a very good psychology to be engend- ered at a time when we're having inflation be-' cause we have more dollars than goods. iust what the Government and the grumbling of the people aver food prices ore doing to the Canadian former today-believe it or not! He doesn't appreciate the efforts to keep him in a strait-jacket when everybody else is out to get the last dollar."

—- EDITORIAL NOTES ~-

Potentiol tourists are being kept out of this country by a misconception of Canada's "auster- ity" program. The Canadian Travel Bureau is striving to clear up this misunderstanding by giving publicity to the typical Canod-ianhotel

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Fishormen's incomes continue to decline. The government promised some time ago to as- sist fishermen to purchase larger and more effi- cient boats, but little progress seems to have been made on the subject.

. . . . France's decision to depreciate the franc for external purposes is reminiscent of days of surpluses of goods, when every country tried to make its own goods cheap and foreign goods expensive. The policy seems curiously out of place in a world of scarcity.

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Zero weather and fire fatalities seem ta go hand in hand. Core must be exercised by everyone, great and small, to see that the policy of "safety first" prevails. Better be sure than

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Opposition of Canadian and American lake carriers to the proposed St. Lawrence Seaway deserves at least attention. The carriers are, it is true, an interested party and may be influ- enced by their own advantage but they are in a position to know_ the traffic and should know what overhead it could bear.

.. . .. .. The tail of o shirt may not be quite so skimpy as of yore but the consumer will more than pay for the additional inches. Much of the expected increase is due to the high price of row cotton and should, therefore, be of short

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Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart, 'Aiistrian com- poser, born this date l756. His genius, says a biographer, might be described as universal, for he shone alike in opera, in orchestral and chom- ber music, and in ‘esacleidflcompositions.

Unlike the reports from Montreal, reports from Lon-don favour ranch bred mink pelts to those from the wild. Say Lomipson, Fraser and Huth lnc., under date of January Z3: "|t is pleasing to note _the great quantity of ranch mink that has already gone into consumption this season and in consequence one can be optimistic. . . . A strong demand existed for the best qualities and clear colours, also for Sec-

onds and Low."

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Mr. Robert Cosgrove, former Premier of Tasmania who resigned last week after being indicted in connection with the alleged receipt of money for Labor Party funds, will face six charges of bribery, six of corruption and two of conspiracy. Cosgrove's trial is expected to open Feb. 9. As head of his party he is held rc- sponsible whether or not he indivdually benefit- ted from the illegal payments.

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Increased Canadian interest in Australia‘: supply of commodities previously imported from the United States is reported by the Department of Commerce. lts monthly bulletin, "Overseas T"°dl"9-" 5°Y51—~"Although Canadian importers are carrying reasonable stocks, inquiries indicate that they are looking to Australia for future sup~ plies. To meet this the Department is survey- ing Australia's resources. This is necessary be- caus-e of the recent restrictions on imports by Canada and by shortages in the Australian home

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So for, and as for back as memory serves, the River St. Lawrence and the Gulf thereof has been pronounced by British and English speaking Canadians as"'Sint Lawrence". Now since a politician of a somewhat similar name has at- tracted the limelight, welare hating the good old-fashioned name pronounced over the radio, that corru-ptorof good English Sanglorong. Well, what is _it going to be? Are we to abandon the English River and Gulf pronunciation or ask the proposednew Liberal Leader to be satisfied with our plain and easily understood "Mr. Sint Laurent." We have lots of Lawrences, who may or may not be songs, who would be surprised to be called "Lorongs."

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Delay in buying a radio licence does not constitute on offence against the law, Judge Oscar Gagnon,_Montreal, ruled when he dismis- sed six complaints against radio owners by tho Federal Government. In the six complaints, the radio owners were ch with operating their instruments without p uriiig o licence. ‘His Honor was informed, however, that they had all eventually procured a permit. Notwithstanding this complaints had been issued against them. "Core should be exercised by officers to verify whether the damage has nbt been repaired be- fore complaints are token," observed His Honor. "Delay or negligence in payment does not con- stitute violation of the law," said the court, '"es-' pocially when e technical offence was repaired before a complaint was token." Hit Honor ord- ered that the six gore: b: withdrawn. t

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Ottawa over the week-end Ind two robberies with rolouoc, The only cure for that. sort of thing is swift. stern punishment —thu3s must be taught the hard way that allme doesn't. pay.- Ottawa Jour-

r‘... ngementa have been made by the air ministry with the Tur- klsh government for on R. A. l" team to. seer-oh that, oounlq and try to trace the bodies of fighter pilots and bomber crews who were lost during operations over the Aegean and the- Dodecanese Islands. Many are known to oe buried in widely scattered places along the west coast of Turkey and in the Dodecariese. After, identification the dies will be relnterred in a Brit sh war ceme- tery in 'I‘urkqy. - London Times.

There is something lrritntingly’ incomplete about. the report of the great clam-eating contest or. Seattle Monday. We are told only that one Richard Watson emerg- ed winner after downing 120 clams in ten minutes, and that among his defeated rivals wds the. oyster-swallowing champion of the world -— who was thus re- buked for venturing lnoo the big leagues. This really not. en- ough. We wo d like to lOliNV ivhai. the contestants were using for ammunition. Was it. the or- dinary clnm. such as occasional- ly occurs in clam chowder, or was it Seattle's beloved “geo- duk", which often runs up to three and four pounds? If Mr. Watson ate 120 geoduks, he ls really a man of distinction. -—Bd- nionwn Journal.

It's only fair that. a distinction be drawn in laying blame for snow plowing difficulties caused by parked automobiles between the inveterate, unthinking motor- lsl. who had left. his car on the hlgiuirny hours before the storm and the unfortunate operator who was forced to abandon ids machine Lo llie elements while. en route from one point to another. lii one of the storms, at. least, the latter did not have the oc.ie-, fit. of an accurate weather lose- case. He was as much is y-lutim of “an act of God," as was the city or bown caught. unprepared for the storm. - Boston Post. The New York Dreu Institute has come out again with its llsi. of the 10, best-dressed women. Mostly it's the same old gang done over in the new look. We'd like to shove them all beck o. notch or two and put at. the b0]: the little woman at our house. When we got home from work she was dressed in the cutest red-checked apron you ever saw. A smudge of flour was across her forehead where she must. have pushed bank a staay lock of hair. Her eyes were sparkling and her llpa inviting. On the stove there was B. big kettle of stew and lri the oven an apple ple. Ask the Duchess to try to match that. - Minneapolis star. Tliere are as many ways of a- voiding a cold as there are at catching one. One doctor recom- mends singing as a preventablve another the eating of raw onion. "An apple a day," says one; "re- formed dress", says another. Oin- namon, breathing through the nose, avoiding stuffy rooms, never

theatremever travelling in n bib, street. car, or ‘railway train, are other preventatives that. have their fervent advocates. All these sugges- tions are excellent, if one had the lime to follow them. But. we can- not. spend all our Lime avoiding colds. There are other things to do in life besides this. If one must. risk a cold by going w the movies, one prefers going Lo the movies and risking it. Chaiham News.

Al, the moment we are beinl asked la provide funds or cloth- ing for use by the children and other people in Europe who need something to replace their rage. That. this campaign should be in progress at a. time w-hen We ell! ourselves squanderlna. thousands and thousands of yards of cloth on new garments which most. of their wearers do not. want Mid never, did want. is ridiculous in the extreme and proves that not. all those suffering from men- tal diseases are by any menu! confined to the institutions set aside for care and treatment of such patients. Brockvllle Re- corder and Tlmu.

George lied been a_ furftlll! sick man. but, throuzh l“ hi" long illness tiirfalthful wife hail nursed him with the most faith- ful and bender care. Often he had awakened in the middle of the night. to find he.- slttlng be- side his bed ivith eoothlnl droughts and gentle ministra- tlons. Now on the road to recov- ei-y, he said to her. "Bessie. shall never ferret your wonderful core. It. will remain a golden memory bo the earl of mynlifl- Why did you do it, Bessie? lie paused dramatically, hoping lb hear some irweet tender words of undying love and devotion. Vieil. Geoi-ge," tiie faithful woman re- plied, "when you became so ill ii reemd you would die. 1 not dorm and asked rnYBelL one qiiufliifl- Arid when I could flndno satir- mioi-y answer. 1 said to mvull. ‘I'll just have to keep him from dying!" “What wu the QUINN Bessie?" the convalescent uni-l! inquired. "It welffrbil hiilliili wife replied: " ‘Who in the world wants a widow and four child- ren "- Wall street. Jolfrfllb-

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Notes From

Another Island By "Anson"

_ IDNDON, .BlI.llXId Noi. for away from where I live, there in a fish and chip shop. Now that. isn't important in itself, be- cause in England almost everybody has a flrh and chip shop not for away, but let. me tell you what happened In ours the other night.» You know, there are a good many things in our daily lives and routine that. have become part. of our national scene. Tea, for ln- stance. The whole world laughs at. the jokes about. the Englishman and his tea-it. has ever been lm nwrtnlized in song with the words “Everything stops for Tea," though that shouldn't. be taken too literal- ly in these "Work or Want." times! But. tea ls not. the only thing. Our pubs, our tripe and onions. our fogs and our roast. bee!‘ are

all. a part of us. And perhaps noth-

ing ls more of an institution s- mongst ordinary folk than our fish and chips. I say "ordinary folk" deliberately because it. always seems that it. is the ordinary folk who have the greatest appreciation for what used t.o'be the old “two- arid-one."

.. -. - That's going back a bit, of course. To the days before the war when you could get a pretty sub» stantlal supper for three-pence Two-and-one-civopenriyworth of fish and one of chips. Nowadays prlcesrhave advanced with the times, and our Lwo-and-orie ls only ii fond memory!

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‘local fish and chip shop that I set

oirt to toll you about. that. started me off thinking like this.

They have a longish counlcr in this shop, where you can stand and eat. your fish and chips on the spot. if you don't. want. them wrap- ped up to take home for supper. Many people do stay and eat ir. ti: shop, regularly, and you'll us- ually find these regulars in exact.- ly t.lie same place on the counter every time. I suppose they got iit- taohed to one particular spot, just. as you mlglit. have a favorite seat. in the park.

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This night, I noticed there was an empty space at. the count/er, and there the proprietor gravely placed o. clean, empty plate with a knife and fork neatly arranged. l-le sold nothing, and probably wouldn't have if lie hadn't. seen a few of us other customers looking, as if we'd like to know what that plate was for. It was nothing, of course, but the way he acted made it. seem as if he was performing some sort of ritual.

"I sold I'd always keep his place for him," he said. and than went on to tell us the whole story. It seems there had been e regu- lar customer, who come in every night as the some time, stood al- ways at the same place at. the counter to oat. his supper of llsii and chips. The last. -few nights i.e hadn't come, but. the place had been kept. for him anyway, just. in case .. . ‘rhen:

"I heard this morning he'd died suddenly, loot night," said the pro- prietor, “so I sold I'd always keep his place for him."

And there it. was-the empty plate, the knife and fork, and the empty space.

We take our fish and chips ser-

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"IN-NO STRANGE LAND."

>0 world invisible, we view thee,

O world intangible, we touch thee,

0 world unknowable, we know tihee,

Inapprehensible, we clutch thee!

Does the fish soar to flnd one ocean, The eagle plunge to flnd the afr-

That we ask of the stars in motion If they have rumor of thee there?

Not. where the wheeling systems darken,

And our benurnbed conceiving soars!-

The drift of plnioris, would we hnrken,

Beat-a at our own clay-shuttered doors.

The angels keep l-helr ancient places;

Tum but a stone, and start a wlngi

‘TL; ye, ‘ti: your coming-ed faces,