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Reconstruction Committee

Premier Jones and his government rol- lcagues are to be commended “on the manner in which they have implemented one of the chief planks in their preclection platform, namely, the appointment of a non-partisan advisory com- mittee on Reconstruction. The personnel of the main committee and sub-committees, as giv- en in yesterday's Guardian, could scarcely be improved upon. It is widely representative of the agricultural, fishery, business, educational and other interests of the Province, it cuts fair- ly across party lines, and it comprises some of our abled and most forward-looking citizens. The coulmittee's tenns of reference are clear and comprehensive, giving full scope for in- vestigation into every phase of our post-war re- construction problems. '

There is no doubt that the work of this important body will be followed with keen pub- lic intereot ufd support. It remains only for the Government to see that the machinery set up is utilized to the very best purpose-that the recommendations of the committee are not pigeonholed and forgotten as has too often been the case—and that the essential principle of democratic government is meanwhile retained. This means that the Government, while as- lunling the obligation of giving every consid- eration to the comlnittee's reports, must never forget that its own-responsibility to the electors for the policies it puts into effect remains ab- solutely unchanged.

Federal Cabinet Sha keup

Many pre-election cabinet changes are fore- cast at Ottawa. Secretary of State McLarty is the latest Minister to announce his inten- 11011 of quitting the House of Commons at the end of the present Parliament. Navy Minister Macdonald and Transport Minister Michaud are said to be slated for judgeships. The Uflauui Journal thus sums up the situation:

“At least two of the outgoing Ministers- McLarty and Crerar-will find harborage in the Senate, admirably suited to the philosophic detachment of their engaging temperaments. Nor will those who know them rail at their good fortune, with its rescue from threatening storm. ‘Years ago, at the approach of a general elec- tion with ominous signs for the Ministry of Mr. Meigheti, the Toronto Globe, in a great cartoon, depicted Sir George Foster, just become a Sen- ator. standing in the Senate doorway, lantern in hand, watching an oncoming storm. Across the awesome skies lightning flashed, and Sir George, his long beard streaming in the gale, mused with melancholy: "God pity the poor souls who are without a roof tonight." We can imagine Messrs. Crerar and McLarty, kindly souls that they arc, and they knowing in their hearts what is coming, voicing the same thought. 'l‘here will be harborage for so few.

"Where Mr. King is to find recruits to fill gaps in his cabinet is a question. With Mr. Power and Mr. Macdoilald gone he will have only General McNaughton at the Defence De- partment. a thing for bleak reflection after Grey North. In Quebec he will have onlv two Ministers, Mr. St. Laurent and Mr. LaFleChe (we are speaking of French Ministers), and in the Maritimes only Mr. Ilsley. In Ontario helhas no one who comes to mind easily to take the place of Mr. bIcLarty, and few mcn in Manitoba with the prestige of Mr. Crerar. More. his‘ lffiglislt-sjieaking Minister from Quebec. Ivlr. Brooke Claxtoil, a sort of ‘boy-stood-on- the-burning-deck‘ recruit of recent months. will almost certainly go do\vn with the ship when the‘ electors of h/Iontreal start shooting."

The Night Air

Mr. Howard W. Blakeslee, science editor of the Astoria/rd Pref-r, gives some timely counsel on how to sleep properly during WllllEl‘ nights. Should one leave bedroom windows open or closed? Mr. Blakeslce advises people to do -hstevor proves most agreeable to them. They can open their bedroom windows wide, just an inch or two, or not at all. Everything should depend on what temperature gives a sleeper the best night's rest. A slightly cool room, with an inflow of fresh air and a moderate radia- tion of heat, appears to prove about right for most persons.

Some householders prefer to give their bed- rooms a thorough airing before retiring, by opening wide the windows, then closing them all but an inch or two before turning out the lights. In cold weather there is a risk in this process of getting the walls and ceilings of a room too cold, as plaster is absorbent. The cold walls and ceilings thus tend to rob a sleep- cr of the body heat he should retain for his own comfort and which is usually sufficient to safe- guard him from chills. It is important not to become chilled when one is asleep. if‘ ome persons require more wannth and Heavier bed coverings than others when they .»cre asleep. Those with a high metabolism rate can, on the other hand, tolerate a colder room and be more comfortable and healthy. The old belief that night air is bad for a person has been diqaroved. It does not bring malaria from swamps, as was once thought; it is the mos-

‘ffttffbes which do that. Medical authorities are

__ vour of fresh’ sir because it stimulates no, aids metabolism: and nerves and

builds up resistlrfceflo germs. Bad air tends’ to undermine Nliltfioe and may cause head- aches and heaviness when a sleeper rises in the morning. A bedroom that is too warm is usu- ally more harmful than one that is cold, a1. though both extremes of temperature should ho avoided.

The happy medium seems to be found in n comfortable temperature. The sleeper himself knows when conditions “are just right." That can often be obtained by having a window open an inch or two, and shutting off a radiator or warm register. The heat that has flown into the room before retiring is enough, even when closed off, to prevent walls and ceilings from becoming saturated with coldness, and the mod- erate inflow of fresh air produces just enough coolness to make for s refreshing sleep.

-EDITORIAL NOTES-

There being safety in numbers, hence no doubt the exte 've membership of the Prov- incial Reconstruction Committee.

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A Lucan, Ont., provincial police constable was detailed for duty to search the home of his late chief for his will. He failed to find it, but on leaving the house took with him as a memento an old shotgun. Later, examining it he found the right barrel plugged with l8 $100 bills.

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For purposes of staking the soldiers’ vote, areas in which Canadians are serving are divid- ed into l3 districts, five in Canada and eight overseas. The districts in Canada are the Mari- time Provinces, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairie Provinces and Yukon Territory, British Col- umbia. The overseas districts are the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Holland and Belgium, Middle East, Far East, British West Indies, Newfoundland. Each is in the charge of a special returning officer who will have depu- ties ss necessary where the number of voters in a district exceeds 60,000. To make it possible for the vote to be taken, nominations have been advanced to 28 days before polling day. Normally they take seven days before except in some northern constituencies where they are I4 days before. After nominations a list of all candidates nominated in all constituencies with their party designations will be tele- graphed overseas apd ‘distiribpted in all camps.

A joint Anglo-Auterican statement issued on Feb. 2 declared “German petrol production has been reduced by the British and American air attacks, and the Russian advance, to less than 20 per cent of the rate at which it was running before the air offensive against oil began last April. This has limited German mobil- ity on all fronts, not only in the West, but also on the Italian Front, and in the defence against the Russian offensive." The Crimean Declara- tiou now states that the military efforts of the Allies are more closely coordinated than ever before. “The timing, scope, and coordination of the new and even more powerful blows to be launched by our armies and air forces into the heart of Germany from the East, West, North,

in detail." One aspect of this co-ordination will be the intensified support of the Red Army by the British and American Air Forces, not only by tactical intervention, but also by con- tinued strategic bombing, especially of the oil

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18m» and flows wider with each passing de- cade. And as a result, the hungry alibi-lb lives Its love and Its money lowthe 1100911615110 wlll’: It o]: . war an non- r ro Examiner. u“

es k his nda. s t an most. efficient tourist bureau In the world cannot make sure of that unless the multitude of people on the “home front". those who stand to [sin most tourist contri- butions, back It up by providing the rluht nccommocatlon and unless

cfal. do thelr share In seeing that

981-5. cabins, campsites and game and fish supplies for those who went them are not merely adequate, but are really what they are advertised to be.- Montreal Star.

The United States is so often ple- tured, especially abroad, as a land of extremely comfortable living that ruults of n current rural lIv-

survey may well shock some Ameflelhs. lays the Providence Journal. The Amerlcan Farm Bur- eau Federation, through Its As- sociated Women branch, has just tola a Congressional Postwar Econ- omic Pollcy Committee that so per cent of American farm homes are still without bath-tubs. Nor ls that all. Only l5 per cent of such homes have refrigerators. Not less than 82 per cent of them have no run- nlns’ water. In a9 per cent of them there are no electric lights. Two- fifths of them, strange as It may seem to urban dwellers. are stlll without the common convenience of s. radio.

It cannot be ton often pointed out that such statistics (of strikes In the U.S.) are essentially meow Ingless, not only because they fall to take Into consideration the amount of Indirect ‘-“ t, a

lznore how vltal the particular production may be that ls

to a halt. The value of the pro- duct of the entire soft coal lndus_ try of the United States, to cite but one example, amounts to only ""6 Der cent of the national In- Sfimillhiflihhil‘ i‘??? ‘l ‘f’

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and South, have been fully agreed and planned I u

The flylnz, pasture ls coming into its Own. for airports are the origin and destination of every flight, and M such are passports to the 8.1! Bee. Says the New York Herald Trl- bune. Wlthln tne next. ten years the United Statues wlll need at. least 7.000 Blrlwrts to ccommodate the Bnufllluted maximum potential of 10,000 commercial pla s and 500,. 080 private planes. o meet this need a national nil-port, program which will put. American com- munities on the ntr map recently has been announced by the Clvtl aeronautics Administration, the .11 onal Aeronautic Association and the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. Prior to the o ‘L

of war, the United States had 1955 than 2,500 landlng areas, of whim m"? 192 were suitable for com- mercial transport operations. With the exception of a handful of mil- I and naval alr bases, the re-

and rail targets. n- e n- v

Sir Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter and essayist, born this date I723; he was made the first president of the Royal Aca- demy in 1768, and Knighted the following year; was official painter to George III, and had a brilliant career both artistically and socially; in addition to practically being the founder of the Royal Academy of Art, he founded in 1764 the Literary Club which included in its mem- bership johnson and the galaxy of literary tal- ent of his day; he himself is renowned for the literary quality of his Discourses, the series of Presidential addresses given at the _Royal Aca- demy; he, excelled in painting children, lllS

Muse (sold in l9l9~for $220.00°)3 Dul-‘lw-YIY of Def/onsllire and her Baby, The Age of Inno- cence; and portraits of Johnson, Sterne, Burke, Goldsmith, Fox, Garrick: “If you have genius, industry will improve it; if you have none in- dustry Will supply its place. . . . He who re- solves never to ransack any mind but his own will soon be reduced from mere barrenness to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has

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Looks like old times. Favorable press con1- ment in leading newspapers in London has fol- lowed the declaration of a final dividend of 3 per cent on the ordinary stock of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company for the year 1944. This makes a total dividend payment for the year of 5 per cent and comprises the important news in financial circles there this week. The

stock rose to r5 11-16, an advance of 54's. Press comment called attention to the company's sound financial position and to the good effect on

Britain of this dividend's bearing upon Britain- Canadian dollar balance. The dividend was high- er than hlid been anticipated and the board's consideration for the patience of the sharehold- erg was mentioned apprecitively. Th: Talagraph said "Ordinary stockholders were agreeably surprised at the announcement" and pointed out that the company had no issues 0f any magnitude maturing before 1949; that its funded debt had been reduced by no less than 126 million dollars and its fixed charges by six million dollars and that "another effect of the higher dividend which may well have weighed with the board in Montreal is that it makes more dollars available in Britain thereby

easing trade relationships between Canada and this country."

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trade relationships between Canada and Great t

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We would have uld that the tele- phone system held no further sur- prises for an experienced journal- Ist, but no. Now we discover that. When you dlal a number and henr, or think you hear, the other party's telephone start to ring, you're the vIctIrn of an innocent deception practised by the telephone com- panys engineers. What. you hear s a sound effect. The Ides, as ex- lwllllded I15 by a company that normally. after

numberguyplp would hear

e person you

called finally said hello. Consc- quently, you would not be sure you

had dlalled the number right, and tI

ht: even get the Im e l f b91116 lllebended In sprlliefsslillle 0a B-Bull. What: actually happens, hOWBI/el‘. Is that as soon as you have dstlled and the machinery h been

l thmlp buzzlnz t at sounds the way an old-fashioned, re-dlol tele- phone bell sounded w erator rang your num As soon as the person you’re calling Icks up the receiver, the buzzer crcutt Is nut. uatlcally switched off. In- cldentslly, the chances are some- llke a hundr thousand to one that. when ou hear the sound- effect 111181118. file telephone you're cslllrlg Is also ringing-me New Yorker. What ll "slum clearance?" In Canada there are few who could supply a comprehensive answer or relate the difficulties Involved. One t Is certain. It Is that slum clearance means careful planning and a new technlqua In housing In this country If It ls to be th most people hope It wlll. City Council has approved o re- commendation that the corpora- tion borrow half n million dollars for slum clearance. It Is a hopeful Inn . But what will half a mllton, or twice that sum, do In he way of ‘providing adequate homes for poor y-puld people? The hole wins has to be thought out

e ants to put the ve In the areas to bo Wll the new dwellings

to up roved plant? ed d they wlll

roblem and much depends upon e plans and enabling l Is- latlon by province and fnon. No doubt e an workln; on these now. n the meantime It Is well to keep In mind -that If slum clearance Is to be a genuine ad- vance In social up, some earn‘- est study needs to given to a phases of the

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Excerpts... From l" "An Econ ’ ' I 4 omic Survey

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area of occupied farm? In 1161?? on In 1041 was I36 whlle the average improved area of the vacc ant farms was 44 acres. Th cupled farms were,

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The Island comparlsonw iiuvlslftl; 63 acres. The occupied farms had 2 I-3 times as large an Improved area as-had those vacant.

The tape of farm vacant or abnn. doned revealed to some degree by Its value. The value of land find blllldlllse 0f occu led farms In the Dominion In 19ft was $4101 while the value was seas or ._f vacant. The occupied farms were 6 times ss valuable as those vacant,

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For the Island the v I ' f cupled farms In 1041i“, 0&3:

hln the province there was. naturally some variation. For the province the proportion vacant was 1 to 28, In Kings County 1 to m; Prince 1 to 3f and In Queens 1 to 41- The lmhroved area of the vac- ant farms was for Klngs 24, Prince 26 and Queens 33 acres. The value gfithfblfimgngnsblélfgtlntslts Igl ‘that: vac- s o -

W. $724 In Prince andngflsolufn Queens. The value of buildings nt farms was $139 In . $215 In Prince and

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of farms In opem. U011 In 1931 and In 1941 by town ships reveals the local situation of these vacant furnls. In Klngs county 6 lots had more occupied forms In 1941 than In I931. 16 lots had fewer and one had the same number. Prince had 7 lots with more and l5 wIth fewer and one remained the some. "ueens had 9 lots with more farms, l3 with ‘flower and two with the same nurn- er.

I I I The vacant farms were some- what localized, that ls they were

eral they were less than half as large as the occupied farms and less than quarter as valuable. ‘

The size and the value of these vacant farms Indicates to some degree what should be done with them. In many -cases these so. called vacant farms are those that have failed to furnished a llvl for a. family over a considerable time of experimental effort.‘ ‘This may have been due to poor soil or not enough of It; or poor hus_. lw-ndry. If and when It was due to lack of size the solution ls easy. They must be absorbed In other holding . his Is what Is going on

Id th really abnndonedlamlffremoset ‘fill’: only the buildings are vacant while the land-If It ls worth worklng- Is usually belng farmed or pas- tured. a a c

The question of abandonment Is not the Important question. The important Point ls to what. Is the land abandoned? In some cases Spruce is srowlnz with such regul- arity that the observer would thlnk It had been blunted. The reforest- glgmlsw natftrala Ini are case the

" as a an with increased rilfbillt. cranberries

e vacant farms re m

proof that the busirliess alspofatrlf efficiently carried on. It Is proof that the competition ls keen and

be that the washetther efficient nor competi- ve. True prices of farm prg. ducts mlsht be high enough or farm products might. be scarce emulh 00 requlre all these farms. but neither of these conditions ap- pear on the horizon at the mom.

much. Perhaps n batm- neaqgp. tlon of the vacant or abandoned flmw t vacant or aban- doned country homestleads that failed to develo Into farms.

As country homes they might. well furnish a refu e-as they are dvlhl-for lllbdflllllfi who after world's In som m. fllllstlon may desire to teach fum- ing by example. "Ihls may Improve Wmporerlly at least the up ar- ance of the countryside and here ls no fagirimltlon to such a move- ment. the contrary to settle an unsus ctlng newcomer who has

e his llvlng on n farm m» "Mush years of ex- gf ble to fumtsh s lIv.

g for a famtl should be avoided B5 f" l! Possf le. Many of these abandoned homestends should allowed to be reforested whlch cmnes about so naturally on the Island. Nature cures what men destroy- Thlatnkes. tune. I

This naturally leads to the sub- Lelct of conservation now so much the lime-lulu. Whit docs con- servnt-Ion dsnote? mm. do we ro- to conserve? We do In cod

come alanned about cons: the forests-after they are sadly depleted and we also become alarm-

bo t. the soil beln: wuh

people? The conservation of the people Is tho first conce hsurprtstnl n. th may sound. - (To be emtlnued)

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mind f the wt f" $3.3" t Is lfiventls Delln- qugncy Ind I hi" 0&6 b0 all conclusion that the

have never been thought of or In- vented. I