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$1. M ll In Canal] and u. s. s. $5.00 per year- Saturday “Weekly. satin iwr veer $1M for I It'll-IA 50c for mon l- “The Strongest Memory is Weaker that the Weakest Ink.”

‘vEDNEsD1\", JULY 24. i940. Liberal Press Opinion .

Conservative lumli-r llzinson has had again}?! bring to the ant-ntiun of the Government evid- in connection with war con- “this, a specific cnse at Moricton where the “with: <njicrintcntlcnt 0f a construc- tp,“ Cyqyujjfll)’ n.1,} m, glppllcflllli for employment ‘ha! 11¢ qi-nl-‘l ll\>[ gut a jub there unless he had a letter from the local dispenser of party pat- ronage. .~\..<l<ed if he approved that sort of thing, Hon. _l. 1.. llsley, Minister of Finance. "Pllfll 11m h,» $5.1 not, l-Apressiniis of disapproval from Qincflllllvlll‘ benches, llt)\\'€\'€l', are n0! enliflilll, 'lihis is evidently the VlEW lakfil Pf the lllil.'.l('l' by the Winnipeg Free Press (Lib- erzil l, which .~;t_vs:

“'l'lit- li~\'ci'iinicnt would (l0 \vell f0 make e\.,_.,.,. prfnn t,» prevent the exercise of patronage ' lt liflS given its pledge to the

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on \\.'ll' public, nnl n) tllillllt sincerely, to eliminate ltll pzitiv-nztgc in .l‘ ‘ ' r related to the war.

"h ,~,_ .nl.l b. . nan-fl, and it is utterly dis- ci-t-.liz;ilili~ in 1:. _v nwn that they should cling to

1|,l[l'.rllll"C ti: tins 'l'lie condemnation of 1h.- prnriice by supporters of the Government in all pziris of the country should be strong enough to suppress it, one would think. Apparently there are some puffs where that condemnation needs to be more emphatic.

“In anything connected with the war, with its high purpose ztnd with the demand it is making 0n Cnnzitlinns for their strongest and most unit-l ed effort, there should be no party distinctions u-liatevcr."

Mr. King's Counsellor

The strange case of Mr. Brocklngton ls stlll engaging the attention of Parliament, He was chairman of the CBC. at the time the Govern- ment got into trouble through preventing Mr. George McCullough, publisher of the Globe and Mail getting the use of radio to promulgate his views on lcatlersliip. Mr. Brockingtoti ultimately resigned only to bé appointed later at an enor- mous salary and expenses to assist the Premier's own pubilicity. In dcfcutliiig his action in this connection the Prime Minister said: “There is a. justification for the Prime Minister havingiat his side at a time like this a gentleman with wide experience in ziffnirs, an able counsellor, one who is largely informed in public matters, and who is in sticli a position as to be able t0 render an absolutely essential service to the of- fice of Prime. .\lilll<lf‘l‘ and to the country in the present state of affairs". In the name of all that is democratic and representative since when did our Constitution permit the Prime Minister or any other minister to choose as counsellor and guide in public affairs one who did hot suffic- iently enjoy the confidence of the electors to be returned to parliament? It becomes more and more apparent Mr. Mackenzie King is heading for an absolute dictatorship in which, like Hit- ler, he chosen his own “counsellors” without con- sidcration for the opinion of the voters at the polls.

.._____._____- y’ The Plight Of Europe _

'A gruesome picture of s starving Europe ls painted by \\':licr lfmvenport, in the current issue of Coll‘ "s, based on researches in the files of llerlicrt C_ Hoover, former President of the [iuizi-il Strttcs, who has taken s promin- ent Pflfl iu rilici nicnstires during the last Great \\':ir and in the present one. Though there is already a 5~ rions sliortige of food in the coun-

tries brought llll'l“f' Xnzi domination, and the situation will get worse as the months g0 b1. all thew liillllS are being drained of their sup- plies, which m.» sent in (icrmany to be consum- ed or Rlllftvl lll"l'i~ inr future requirements. Italy will gt‘! wizzit lliiler cares to spare her. and other Qnlllllflwg t‘\l|(’\‘l.'lll_\' those which have dar- e-l to nppn-t‘ the ninrcli uf the Nazi armies, will have to lll,‘ win ut \\llil wlint is left after these (‘X.'It‘ll1-l!i~ v.’ l will be very little indeed. (Trips l;-,-t ir \\'<'re considerably below nOFlllIll, and lllt‘ u. l'='t‘ which followed the out- hrenl; of w q- r-yri-ritiivinlly severe. Spring cnme line, .qn.l i hi Lillvd successive plantings. 'l'ht- pi. of iln- mighty military machine

lini-opi- di-vnstatetl the rfood marching nien don't devour as

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tin-y gm" n lll \lr_ l),‘l\'t‘Il[X)l'l, “they destroy. liven llu; out irliing llnn\'t'i' records cannot estimate how nisinv food :inimtils died in Hitler's fire." lu nililnioii '-"ii‘i1»rnious quantities of grain 5nd mint '.\' rt- tlv-iroywwl by farmers before they “cri- f in-wl :o flee from the advancing terror. ln piuxly iiurnizil titties, the great ma- jority of ‘flit t'|>t\iiti'iiw' affected have to im- port inuch (if tlnir fimilsltlffs in order t0 iiillSlst from _vi .11‘ in yi-Jti‘. “flint their plight mtist be unilt-i- the c-inililions prevailing today it i3 pitiful to coiilt-itipl:it<-. lhilnntl and, t0 8. less extent, Norw-zrv, llollrnitl," Deumzirk and Bel- gium are .'ilr<-.'uly fer-ling the pinch and the,

gpoilafitm nf Fiviiicc, is now beginning.

ll/lien there is n failure of fodder, the cattle have to be slniu. and the enrcnscs are promptly shipped to (iii-ni.-iii_v' tn be put iii cnld storage.

Reich toward Poland. Fifteen million people have been packed into an area which formerly had a population of only ten million. The sec- tion is mainly industrial and has to import its food. “They will eat what Germany and Russia give them in payment of their labour." It is altogether insufficient and a thousand die daily from starvation. “As Germany and Russia took the agricultural sectors of Poland," continues the report, “so may they quarter other con- quered lands, including France." The prospect

is appalling. F! EDITORIAL NOTES a:

Gibraltar captured by the British this date I704. It has been “the rock" base of control in the Mediterranean from that date to this.

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Tlie Carry-on-Canada Corps ls gaining lm- petus not only here, but all over Canada. It is a compliment to the originators and promoters that the C. B. C. has adopted a progrntnme ad- vocating its p0licy_

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The new British Labour Minister, Mr. Bevin has assumed authority to conscript all doctors for any job the Government sees fit‘ to send them. Here, according to the C. M. C. there are some 9,000 doctors waiting to be called for just such jobs of necessity and mercy.

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The Paris newspaper Le Temps hns ivariied the Government» that a. famine is imminent in France and has protested against the Germans requisitioning French food supplies for army

use. "Coming events" etc. Economists all over have been predicting an Etiropean famine in 1941-2.

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According to “Osservatore Romans", both the British and French governments gave an tinder- taking to respect the sacred character of Rome, but left open the possibility of taking reprisnls. This means that if Italy, now lined tip with Ger- many, should be guilty of any atrocity, she cau- not expect to have Rome immune from air raids.

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Though in not a. few instances farms have been depleted of necessary help, there is still plenty man power in the province for all ordin- ary, and even extraordinary, purposes. But so far it has not been regulated and adjusted. That will come in dlue time when registration takes place, and national and provincial organization becomes effective.

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We are now told the Nazis in Paris have as- sailed "red fingernails, plucked eyebrows and other fantasies" on the part of women-folk. If that be all the havoc they have caused in “Gay Paree" they have been more considerate than they were of Dunkirk, Amicns and other cities where the British took their last stand in behalf of the Allied democracies.

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It used to be said things were going to the bow-wows, now it may rightly be claimed they are going to qtiadrupetls of a larger growth. N0 sooner is it reported from Stimuierside that an elephant has started housebreakiiig, than Mon- treal announoel that a. five year race-horse has been taken to the pound as a stray. It was zir- rested while trying to pick-tip a mouthful of breakfast on Terrebone avenue.

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National War Service Gardiner is already iu a position to announce that several provincial governments have indicated their ivillingness to provide, in part at any rate, the premises and staff for national registration, the ministers of education offering all schools in their respective provinces for the use of the registration offic- ials. Teachers organizations also have offered the free services of their members. This means each in his o\vn way is doing his or her prelim- inary bit to be followed by greater effort and self-sacrifice later.

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Somethlng would still be left of democratic freedom in conquered France if an editorial in the Temps, published at Vichy, is allowed to use the following language: “For failing to make the necessary effort in time and for failing to stand effectively with the free peoples when it was still possible to save the democratic order in the world, Americans now see themselves obliged to consent to ever harder sacrifices in order to improve their o\vn defense, without having the certainty of succeeding before the peril has reached their own continent." For a newspaper under Hitler's heel to speak wistfully of free peoples and democracy, and of himself as a peril, seems odd; unless the sting is in the tail of the paragraph, the intimation that it may be too late for America to defend herself.

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Millions of particles of soot or similar sub- stance fell for several minutes on the English southeast coast during the final British retreat from France. People and growing flowers and vegetables were spotted. It was at first thought that the particles were a huge quantity of oil burned at French Channel ports to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Germans rind that they were carried over in the clouds and by changes in atmospheric pressure suddenly re- leased. Subsequently a correspondent of The London News Chronicle in France cabled that artificial fog caused by German smoke screens had become so thick that at midday people had to use pocket torches to find their way about. It was then suggested that the rain of soot may have had some connection with that. Of the German smoke the correspondent wrote: “Its effect is quite different from that of ordinary smoke screens, which drift in long clouds but remain more or less local, leaving clear spacer between them. The new product creates an evenly distributed lead-colored fog, smelling slightly of sulphur and incense, and cuts off vision at s. few hundred yards range up to a height of several thousand feet over

Rugsifl, ton, is bi-liew-d to be greatly concerned about next “inn-ii.- food supplies. llut what of llritztin?

the“ i; nothing 1-. worry about. Abundance of,‘

grain and animal fond products are available from the (llillllllltllfl nnd all parts of the world; and tliiecvziciintion nf children to plFlC€5 0f safety overseas relieves the prnhlcm still further- Particularly callous is the attitude 0f the

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long distances. It leaves s black, sooty deposit

on whatever it touches. The fog lets a. formid-

\\'£th the lnipt-i-iztl Navy supremglwble problem for gunners and other defensive

troops who cannot sec their targets till they burst on them without warning at short range." The composition of this German smoke product interests experts in Britain, who see in it one of the “secret weapons” promised by the Nazi’ leaderg -- . - c‘

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NOTES BY TllE WAY

Alberta's ping credit houses should be board up and. $335,- 000 a. year of the people's money saved. That. would be a good place for Alberta to start a. "win-alie- iver" effort. (Lethbrtdge Herald)

Hon H. C. Nixon, Aotln‘ Pro- mler of Ontario, announces that because of t,lie Dominion budget the Ontario Government will en- deavor to reduce taxes. ‘Phat ls a wise policy to pursue in view of the fact. that. the Dominion Gov- ernment will be sure to come back for more taxes next year. It is surprising what we can do with- out ff we have to. (St. Thomas Times Journal.)

Systematic tax dodging h a poor-spirited affair lu peacetime. There are uglier names than tihat for it in ivartime. When Gann- diaiis, rich and poor, are gladly paying steep taxes ln order to help the national effort, their thoughts naturally turn to the question of their fellow-Canadians who, in re- cent yea-rs have flirted to the tux- free islands of uie blest. twin- nipeg Tribune)

There have been complaints among Nova. Scotlnns, this year, that trlie climate is less than per- fect. There are those who would prefer to see more sunshine and to feel more warmth. The season, they maintain, is late, and Summer \vlll be short. But such complain- ants should bear in mind that peo- ple who live in those places where the Summer is \V£1l_‘l11€l‘ and longer miss a privilege which we enjoy. They know nothing of the cosy comfort. of a cracking llKLTdWOOd fire on a chill July €\'Cl"llll§.—H8.llfflX Chronicle.

The caller at an education office near Manchester discovered the staff in a state of hilarity. Asking the cause, lie was handed a grubby piece of paper from the momitigls mail, nnd n finger pointed out the concluding words of an indignant parent's protest against his child's being sent to a special school: "Anti let me tell you there lins never been any trace of mmttrillty‘ on either his mother's side or mlne".—Mtmclics- ter Guardian.

Horse oars began to make their appetiraiice in this part of Ctitiada during the ‘eighties. The electric. cars came in the Uiiitetfes. The buses have been steadily displacing street cat's for several years, and in many cities ILLVC been responsible for their complete disappearance. "The day of the street cm" and its noise is gone. And the public wish- es it so", said Major Morrison at last night's itiieetitig. Thus do new days bring their own new ways of life, for life is not static-Hamilton Spectator.

Certain Summer resort commun- lt-les which depend for their exist- ence on holiday-fuckers whose cliiof interest is bathing are often stricken by a mot-k modesty. Some of them wake up to l-lie ludicrous- ness of their excessive puritauism before it is too late and they have driven away the visitors. who give them their livelihood. Port. Burtvell moves into the awakened class. It has nmeiitlod a regulation that. biitlicrs must not appear on the street-s. eu-ii in cars. wettrintq only a. bathing suit, and that. men blllll- ers iittist. went‘ more than trunks. Under the new ruling, trunks are approved for the itien, nnd anyone tiiay drive his car through the street attired only in bathing dress. It is belated recognition of the sil- liness of the theory that. what ls quite all right, on one side of an ar- bitrarily drawn line indccctit (Ill the other side.-—\Vinclsor Star.

A suggestive paradoxical cpigrism was nittue to me the other day by n ; distinguished man ot science and (with the proviso that. ll. has no moral reference!) I may be allowed to quote lt. We were discussing 100d in wartime, and lie said, "Nothing is so foul as purity. The whiteness of bread sacrifices savour and sus- tenance. Cider ls robbed of its full taste because the public insists on unclouded brightness; Even olive oil is spoilt by needless purification. Year by year it. is being proved by science that. purification robs a clients. sometimes virtually intang- ible mid invisible. The synthetic product. and the much purified natural product. bot-h miss essen- tiztls. The just moral seems to be: Use flotii- made from the newly tn- vented milling process. — London Spectator.

That Ottawa ls an excliislve mime would be the guess of many inhabitants of Llie lJ0lll1lll0ll, par- t-lcultirly as it; ls the Capital. Yet a railway agent, might uell iiiqtilre of the iuwnciing traveller which of eight communities was meant. when asking for s. "ticket. to Ottawa". Tnere are seven Otlnwas across the border, tn Georgia, Llinois, Kansas, Minnesota , Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Nor is the repetitous use of place iinmcs confined to the Capital. Even Montreal which would appear quite sale because the title clearly designates Mount Royal, the central pliyslctil feature of the Me- tropolis, line its counterpart in M1- cliigtin, although on a. somewhat smtiLer scale. Canadian cities which hold their names exclusively are Winnipeg, Edmonton, Regina, Sas- katoon, Moiictoti and Charlottetown. —Catiiid.ia.n National Railways.

We have not a thing against Lindsay. In fact we regard it; as I. splendid sort of town. Drive over there occasionally and now and then have done a. little visiting. Bo we consider it advisable to explain that it was unconscious humor which caused one of our reporters to record this fact: "His many friends here will be sorry to hein- that Provincial Traffic Officer Gor- don E. Bmighton, who has been on duty in this section for several

ears, has received notice that he being transferred to Llxidsa7."— Peterborough Examiner.

The British notion (over the French fleet) has thrown the total moral bankrutcy of the Vichy Gov- ernment into a memorable and in- escapable rellef. The Government which could betray its ally as this

longer count, because that Govern- ment no longer counts. It may de- clare war on Greet Britain-the risk is unimportant. It. may iwatl itself of Hitler's permission and or- der wliat ships are left to lt to at- tack the British-who matter ls of

no consequence. Its mom! authority ls lone-New York llenki mini»,

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t emeots to introduce unemployment insur- ance at. this session of parliament. It will be hailed as s great meas- ure of social reform and people for political reasons will say a. lot of‘ nice things about it. It will be her- alded as a st triumph. a great. stelvp forwar , but in actual fact 1t wi be not-hing of the kind. It will be an act. setting down in black and white that the King Govern- ment has admitted defeat ln solving our uunemployment problem.

In defence of tho King Govern- ment ft will be said that unemploy- merit is here to stay, that the Gov- ernment ls 1n no way responsible, but that it is duo toworld conditions over which it has no control. We have heard this story before and don't believe it. While it is true that the Federal Government cannot control world conditions 1t can deal in a senslbie and effective way with conditions in this country, and if it had made any real attempt- to do so there would have been far less unemployment 1n peace-time and famiers would be ln a. much better position financially than they tflre to-day. The fact of the matter is that the King Government has al- lowed matters to drift. It has done nothing really effective to aid agri- culture and t has been playing vvlth the problem of unemployment for the past five years and getting nowhere. Now ll. admits its sins of omission-its omission to give the people of this country real leader- ship ln solving our economic prob- lems-by planning to pass a meas- ure to establish unemployment ln- 5111111109.

Unemployment insurance will not assist in creating employment in any way. Its effect will be quite the opposite. It will increase taxation and the cost of doing business and its general tendency will be to make things worse for agriculture. There ls much more to be said on tlhis subject. and we intend to say it but not now. Now the supreme task of the Canadian people ls to defeat Hitler. The right. time to say what we want to say ls four or five years hence. 'I'hen people's minds will not be distracted by their war effort, and then it. will do most. good.

The Nazi Purge

(Exchange)

The cables report mat a German writer named Franz Werfel wlto had sought refuge in France, has been‘ shot by tlie Nazis. The other day it ivas reported that. Leon Peu- cIiLuYanger, world-famous Gerlnun author, was in the hands of the Nazis; 1f he has been lucky lie li..s been shot, since the alternative would doubtless be more terrible than death. Maurice Maeteriinck, one of the most famous men of let- ters in the world, arrived the other day in New York penniless, having fled from Nice as ITZIICC yielded to Hitler; he explained that, had he remained, lie would undoubtedly have been murdered because one of