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“The Strongest Memory is Weaker The! ' the Weakest Ink.”

MONDAY, MAY l3. 1948

Looking Ahead

A considerable amount of money is to fi spent by the Department of National Defense within ihc next fcw years in reorganizing the service forces in this Province, particularly in the erection of barracks and armouries, and in- stallalion of modern training equipment.-

Preliminary steps in this direction have been the gradual shifting over of various sec- commands from a wartime to a peacetime establishment. The permanent force, the instructional cadre 0f our forces, is resuming its pre-u-ar function but on a much larger scale.

In this connection it might be well for our provincial and civic authorities t0 interest themselves in the probable developments in the science of warqo The technical and mechanical training required in all branches of the armed services will open new fields of education and new avenues of employment for many of our young men. These, locally, should be exploit- ed to the fullest extent.

-Fedcral reports state new armouries will be built in this Province. It is not improbable that an increased peacetime naval force will call for new quarters as well, if the training as plan- ned is to be carried out. It is to be hoped that the authorities here are already working in co- operation with our Federal representatives in ensure that such projects will be welcomed, and designed on a scale in keeping with our status as a Province.

Today, housing is the crying need, and building materials must be diverted to reliev- ing this situation. But we should not lose sight of the possibilities of sharing in the develop- ment and expansion cfiour armed services. Steps should be taken to lay the groundwork which will enable us to seize any such oppor- tunities immediately they are presented.

Newfoundland Seal Fishery

Time was when Prince Edward Island shipbuilders loaded their newbuilt schooners and other craft with Island produce, ‘sailed them to Newfoundland, and auctioned off both cargo and ships; the latter, we are told, being of such sturdy construction that they made excellent vessels for the sealing industry. Today the old Island ships are gone, but the sealing in- dustry remains; and it is interesting to note, from a Neu/foundland exchange dealing with the results of the past sealing season, that ships cap- able of weathering the Arctic flows in this busi- ness are still at a premium. The reports which have been published, suggest that the vessels “were of too light tonnage or were not suffi- ciantly powerful l0 cope with the ice."

“The costlincss of the type of vessels re- quired," states the Si. John's Evening Telegram, "would be a serious consideration for one firm, apart from the fact that one concern could scarcely he expected to operate a molhcrship for the benefit of vessels belonging to various owners. That prompts the question whether or not the imlividualiszic method of prosecution could not lu- changed and, at the same time, the method of handling the pelts, brought up to date. \\'hcu voyages are prolonged, no small proportion of the cargo must be lost, as the fat tends to run. So far, no use whatever is made of thc sval carcasses which could be converted into fcrtilizcr and probably into other products as wcll. The Norwegian plan in prosecuting the seal fishery and also that of the whalers in the Antarctic is to use ships which are floating factories. Could this plan not be adopted by us? It would probably involve the consolida- tion of the various sealing interests to launch such an enterprise. There would seem to be much to be gained by a ioint undertaking. The cost would be shared and it seems reasonable to suggest that the prosecution would be far less speculative and give promise of more rcmun- crativc returns. Further, ships of this type might be usefully employed in mher trade dur- ing the rest of the year, for example, in carry- ling fresh fish products to markets which New- foundland as vet has not been able to supply."

The seal fishery forms not an inconsider- able part of Newfoundland revenues. Now that there is a revival of trade between this Prov- ince and the Ancient Colony, that is a matter worth bearing in mind.

Reading Habits

Interesting indication of the changing

A Ingercscl and, attitudes’ of Canadians since the

holtflltifs is shown in the annual report Y . ~Tomn$p public libra The report deal: ‘th H1945 but eyen short period of

(‘enatiiancreadmg _ y l trend was apparent mum in war. books ended.

algriosf

history slumped 30 pgr cent,

The demand for technical books shifted ibfllllll)’ l" 5W5 Dtflfietime projects as home blllldiflll- Felmbing and refrigerating. Books on lifmlflll. INN-keeping and fruit growing were also much sought after.

But the technical end was not the only one to show a major change. The circulation of hooks on psychology showed an increase of 33 per ‘cent while Arts, which includes painting, mliSlC and craft work, was up'2o per cent.

The report stressed the great use being made of the library facilities by returned men, including of course the large number who re-entcred or entered uniyersity. These men in particular are turning to the library for- assistance.

e-EDIIORIAI. NOI ES-

A Federal Communication Commission re- l>°rt noted that “radio commercials have been getting longer, more frequent, and more “of-

fensive."

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_ The United Slates declared war on Mexico this dale, I346, the outcome of which was the annexation of Upper California and New Mexico to the UfllOIl.

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London busmen are being advised by the Tmllspflrt Bwrd to “stop nagging the public", and to “get back to old-fashioned courtesy". Good advice which might be profitably extend- ed to the bureaucrats generally of our own pub-

lic services.

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Sir Harold Mackintosh, chairman of the National Savings Committee, speaking in Nor- wich On April 25th announced that nearly £11,000 million has been raised in savings in the United Kingdom -— nearly half in small savings, most of uihich no doubt was lent to the Government f0: war purposes. i I i

It is about time the Federal Government busied themselves over the Maritime railway problem. The members of The Canadian Press here at the week-end were loud in their protests at the wretchedness of the service; also by the way, at the condition of the roads in New Brunswick and from Borden t-o Charlottetown. Something must be done if we are to continue in the tourist business. w n; a n:

It is satisfactory to learn that the old-estab- lished woodworking industry of Messrs. Mac- Donald and Rowe is to be further developed by the introduction of new blood in addition to having a continuance for a time of the services of Mr. Rowe, the surviving partner of the old firm. There should be a. great future for the wmpany for there is abundant room for ex- pansion and extension.

a w w a A new sensation will be experienced by our nine members of the Provincial Govern- ment this morning in being called upon for the first time in Provincial history to form a court for the adjustment of matrimonial af- fairs. Fortunately they will have able and competent direction in the presidency 0f the Chief Justice who will replace the civil presi- dent of the Council for this particular part of

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This is Empire Youth “leek, and next Sun- day will be Empire Youth Sunday, which has been increasingly observed throughout the British Commonwealth since its inception in 1937. It provides a means of establishing a closer fellowship and spiritual communion be- tween the youthful citizens of all parts of the British Commonwealth, and emphasises their common responsibilities in the great tasks that lie ahead. n- Each Province has its own particular prob- lems to solve and one of these in Saskatchewan is the magpie nuisance. Ten cents has been add- ed to the 5-cent bounty on magpies paid by the Saskatchewan Fish and Game League, Natural Resources Minister J. L. Phelps has just an- nounced. N0 additional bounty will be paid on crows. The Fish and Game League will handle payments of the additional bounty on magpies and all birds’ legs have t0 be sent to secretary of the League, North Battleford. a a u. a

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An immediate election in Saskatchewan is officially denied in Regina. "An early election definitely will not be called unless required in the public interest and a lalc election will not be called at all," Acting Premier ‘I. \V. Cormau, K.C., attorney general, said recently in reply to a press story in which Federal Agriculture Minister J. G. Gardiner suggested the possi- bility of a Saskatchewan election this year. Mr. Cormau said, “We do not intend to extend our own life as the Liberals did, in contravention of the express terms of the Legislative Assembly Act which says that an Assembly shall continue for five years and no longer. A provincial election will positively be held before July of 1949-" _ _

While the attention of the public has rightly been centred on the control of atomic energy so that it may never again be used for destructive purposes, hardly lcss important is the question whether we are devoting sufficient energy and expenditure to rcsearch. If we are shortly to derive industrial power from nuclear energy, some questions inevitably arise on the subject of the control of the coal industry and expenditure on central electricity schemes. The British Minister of Supply, replying to a de- bale, was guarded. In the present state of our knowledge, Mr. Wilmot holds, it is doubtful if the achievement of the next ten years can really have a widespread industrial application; but it is essential before the State euibarks on a pro- gramme of expenditure on jndustrlea which may soon be obsolete t6, be mire that it would not be

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Circulation of power must herald in."

better to spend the iiloney “in thepreparstlcn for a world-wide economic revolution, for ll ls nothing else, which the development if atomic

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Notes By The “We,

The Dominion gcvernmen Is said to be amslderlng a. new lxaslai lssim Y9 be released III July. It 1s high time we dropped the KllTl-and-mnk scrim and brought our stamps up to dot-e. We can also hope that Lhe Widely anticipated announcement 01f universal hreeoent. postage in Canada, for all rattler mail includ- 1118 aisrmafl. will be made ln con- Junction with‘ the new Issue. Vancouver News-Herald.

_-\ Yfllllll Scottish officer, who n. (Aimed recently from Greece, is much amused with an experience he had the-re-when poljflgal grow bles were most acuite. _I-Ic found that he and fellow Scottish soldiers were popular tzhere if they eXpLflIn_ ed that. they came frcrn Scotland and not England or Britain. ‘Ihe reason for this. he was told by Greeks, was “You come from an oppremed country, mo," _Edm_ burgh Scotsman.

In Great Britain about one-third of can" families slill have 7.0 heat. their bath water hi ssu ns, kettles and other small coma ers. Even so, this countrv had before the W81‘ a considerably highes- rue] consumption. par home, than Ger- many. and very little less than the U S. says The London Spectator. In spite of this high consumptllm, it. is generally much ocolcr than

homes», whilst they are my. tiehily a 10b colder than American. ‘This is chiefly because of the waste- Iiulmess and inefficiency of b hearing systems on which I have 111N348 touched, and also because houses abroad are bet-fer insulated.

Anne Cllmmf-ng _Bell, "the girl with the perfect figure," has be_ come tlhe Duchess of Rutland whereupon the Duke. who was often spoken of as a possible Prince COIIEOFB. mriains a. mere Duke and 110311118 IROTRIIQ is. no doubt, con- soled m while, as the playwright sgys Albert found, there are cer- t n compensations 1n being thg Queen's husband along with the vexrailons. there ls unboundlng pride in hulsbanduig such a one as can b: com amed only with Venus herself. Shal _we commoner mortals tihen envv His Grace?

Is she lcirid as she ls fair?

For bcauty live; with kindness: Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness; And. being llflllfd, IIIhli-blls more

That Is a dull person who does not catch something of the inspir- ation p-ervading all nix-Lure in such‘ a sensor) Most fortunate are those who have access to a bit of soil. however limited. mat they may have a‘ part in the miracle working oi’ Spring.) This IS the time for the rte-awakening of the filling instinct. 1n thousands who have almost. tor- gott-en the agricultural "traditions of their nn . The desire to d the earth, to scatter seeds, lo fight wec-ds. to help the useful to grow and to defend if against the noxious and the useless Ls inherited by the great. majority of this country. —Chaytfiam Dally News.

The Times stales that forty feet of Grantham steeple is to be rebuilt. If. would be interesting to know the com flon cf the mortar now us . scolding u. the parish books 0f lmlth for the year 1627 when the steeple vras repaired the mason used lime, allcrn, glue, strung wort and about 400 eggs for his ccrmem or mortar. It would be Interesting to know whorl the use of eggs for mortar first originated’ and when the practice ceased. This seeming extravagance has pmbably saved parishioners many bill-s for repairs to their sfoe- les. —1-I. Crawshay Host. in Lon on es.

Sensational stories about/a " eat famine" in Cans-in do this c0 n- try small credit lvleat is us lly scarce at. this sermon of the y r, may be scaxcer than usual n w, but lo scarf talking about l at scarcity 1n terms of a famine n d about complaints from e lwusetops about ‘it, this while m 1-

eart/h are facing death fmm st. ration, is ccriccthlug that sha shame us. Canada, in terms of fr. , ,

the beet-off counts-y in the wrrr . We have a few fccdstuffs zatioped, but apart from rhat there ls prfi

balaivy not a single home in aI this land without twice 2s muc

foo-d for all its miumbers everw da

as goes to tlhs best fed of hundred

of millions of Lléople In Europe. We have mllk. and butter and bread and meat and moot of us have es and fruit. For any or many among us lo show such little understanding of whet Such a blessing means as to set. up a. howl about lcimpomry in con- venience In getting meat is m show a selfishness and irnawa-mnoss of (the world that la diner-editable. - Ottewa Jcunal.

l One of the shorten-lived dreaa regulations on record seems to be involved in the slightly mysterious wmnm" in

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raah li"—flugl ' '01

a. caused Kl IIU INX

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U-fwishes

the people of m,

Ions of human train-rs all over t e Baum“; g

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Old C harlollelown

much on .

the an, of V; the their

young men able to f. “W31” .19.‘. a . a

owln and beobm paint. cf a and of AGVGIIIIIWS in search of rich. ibmmee on the

Paxllfk: .

(blnpflny was under the mwn0allformlm Assoc .

snfbstontalal ship was obtained from James Peake, 13km, In the brig “_1'\i|rmy", built, In Gaerbbteidwn by oceeph , o! 240 eons burden,

. and The u: enacted

was £4,000, Island currency, urhlch was Dflld of the company

The were placed 8Q Q00 _each. Iwelv of the (‘Jomnany were

e o waif- .&°..““““‘...... irr-‘ii ofiiudhe and first mate were em or yarn. tihe c-ecarnd ma and flve or d! seamen were only for the mn. for which 8v were be A" was eq

with tohmis tcould

P6-

Boefmu a. set, of ehronomefa,

. compasses,

a set o1 new spare smile. £100 worth

of new etc, and £800

Mom an Island of Nov-

ember 1840 we isotepfi following account of tlhe e lure:

ed frown taewwn on the 12th lndt. followed by the good ' and myers of several hun- the

dreds, , dkecl for San , calling a-f. Rio Janelro and Val This being

the first vessel from this Island to the newly discovered Paotolue. de- serves more than a pass mllce. The Ilmny is o-vmed and ma our.

y an Amoclerlilon oi’ foe-fly persons —mecha:nics, clerks, fannem- all active, steady, sober men of ood chamcter and industrious its. acutuafed for the most part, as we believe, wish a 1c die-sire to miter the nonunion o1 themselves and their fanulim, by shaming Ln the western shores of North Am.- the trade suddenlv opened up on erica. The Fwnny has all her avail- able space occupied by lumber (three house frames) brick-s. cool. etc, and m-ovisiions qt such kinds as‘ will keep for lwo yearns.

tcvm, thaf od’ an emigration from our shores of persons similarly cir- cumsbanccd, so no event. has called

heartfelt for the adventure. some whom are young men, connected with the oldest. and most expensive families m the Colony, while others are themt-elves fathers of family, who le-ave- wives and children to grieve their present ure and to hope for the success issue cf their

“If, added to the bermporary - terest of the scene that lin tlhe morning the sun arose in full efful- gence and the weather out.

l8 venture.

e day was wamm fine . . .

an cme-n cf mccem to the enlar-

prlslng voyages. The steamer RISE.

xvith about. three hundred persons

on board. took

at. t/wo o'clock. and in _

slhe was seen swiftly $1111; the

chops cf the harbour. wharves

w ' 1. the dav had been excm-s anxious

lockers-cm. serted, and at.

left. but the fruokmeln plyigé ordinary labour, and no v lge oi the bwsry scene rernalned.

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“We subjoin the following list. of shareholders and passengers"

. Percival. wherelw-night; George oountant t aridtireasurcr): John Pldvwell, cordwalner; George Owen, accountant: John Hawkins. carpenter; Jabez Bamard, builder; James Milner, th. "Artemas Davlson. blacksmigid;

Threat ffodlfilieirly =

(Toronto Globe’ and Mail)

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n," yuh-Lsfln- ur political, system dc “ends to a Thfll there were the good 'old '- ' hiicgliltelwlfilubdalflb ‘gum ti!" as“ when “WWW” h“ a “"- fermatien-facta idueagn upinlori: o‘ m‘ “m” l‘ m" °1 dlecuaalen-»-o the e ‘le ln zdef a p!“ In t}: fgmfciné “ b“? "Mb xv“ that they i may girl-ii’ thelroown ‘We e x . Iflem- - oriesl-Iitmtfom Beaumont-Herald. Flew incidents in our colonial judimefl" " m h” the“ "l" __ me m mum a}, m, .0“ ,_ylalrllts. those they alect, are tul- More than one-half of the mu. "he history or in Provlnee than “i “M” 1"“ ‘m- whim?’ wager ma of the world Hes with,“ Qmvwaaeolawgnodshlpumnny» they are carrying out their iuues the boundaries of Canada Am mmucape Rom w We" °P bldly- . 1f ma“. than “Hum. of me flesh h w 19m The ‘om ‘We, When a Government owns a Wm,- flghgfl-nen Q; the world wam 1m 1 m; g few radio aysleni, and so controls the w come hm, and my the“. m“ ykmgly m; 5 number mug means of getting information tc weiu be veglmppy aha,“ the whole ma, h, 1b,, had the nation. the temptation to mks- min‘ _ gswn whig_smndmd_ hm-mq mum“ h, mum u- gon, use that instrument la ever pre- ___ w,“ New; d“ m‘ W1 gm in sent. This II true cf the Canadian Color Ilghllng which can be ud- "was days. but Peter Poole‘s iervid Iwdwflnz 00 oration. n: 1r jugtgqL by mmmg a d1“ to sun d o; 13w 1,1,, was true oi the ertlme Informe- mood; and mmrmms in homes new-round ma‘, mu, he h“ tlon Board and other similar pro- P-Offilfi. offices and factories is ex.’ reached some f-iiw . WWI!- Wimd" limchb peeled to have high expon vahm a stmon hrvlmrlon to come out Whl-Ie Provincial Premiers ha e The new technique (now being tried B-“d Ln fine,“ c, was complained o! t-he CBO and ls out. for the first time at King-s received by his Mother Tom, in abuses, now some are trying to st Theatre, Glnsguw) 1,; M, enflrely Cmairlotzflefown and ultkly com- up a counter-radio system of her Brigg, mvenqm, _UK Infommt municmbad to the whoe population own. Saskatchewan's (XIF Gov- lon Office. 0i the Bland. Naturally tihere was ernment wants permission from excltzanent and a disposition the Broadcasting Corporation to