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TEMPERING JUSTICE
All who believe in tempering
justice -with mercy cannot fail to
be impressed by the experiment
that is to be tried in British Col-
umbia, where persons guilty of
minor offences will be sent to a
:ranch for detention and reha+bill-
tation, instead of to jail.
As space is limited, offenders
who are ex -servicemen will get the
first call. This, however, is no
reflection on veterans. Rather, it
is a mark of consideration, as the
sacrifices they have made may
have, in many cases, contributed to
their falls from grace. Permitting
them to get together, in pleasant
eurrouudings, ought to bring out
the best in them once mare. Other
provinces would do well to watch,
if not imitate British Columbia's
experiment.
—Windsor Daily Star.
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WHAT, NO SABLES?
We're running headlong right
into the real privations of a vier
ecoonnly, all right.
Comes from New York furriers,
the desolating word that there are
no $85,000 Russian sable coats to
be had this year. It seems that the
Russians are busy trying to trap
somewhat bigger game than sables.
l'frmtue and chinchilla arra going
to be equally rare, the furrier's re-
port.
The line of husbands forming in
front of the 86th -storey jobbing
window will form at the right.
"What, no $65,000 sables!" we hear
the man at the head of the line
eery as he flings himself desperate-
ly out the window.
—Guelph Mercury.
ARMY LIFE BENEFICIAL
Soldiers' complaints about their
food are proverbial and in this
war there are probably as many
of them as during the Great War.
But when it is officially ann. unced
that most of the soldiers under-
going training in this country are
steadily gaining in weight, not-
withstanding the rigorous exercise
that most of them experience, the
efficacy of their diet becomes ap-
parent. As a matter of fact, plenty
of wholesome food plus adequate
exercise plus fresh air is usually
beneficial to anyone.
--Brookville Recorder and Times.
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NAIVE CHAMPIONS
"If were atog, a/8°111W
ready-made list of candidates. It
consists of people who play 'games
of skill' for money at fairs, those
who invest in 'money -making' ma-
chines peddled by strangers, and
Mr. Herbert Hoover, who thinks
Germany will let American food
;shipped to the occupied countries
go to the suffering conquered
people,"
—Windsor Daily F,><tar.
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NOT MANY OF THEM
Interested groups and individuals
are finding fault with the Govern-
ment's price-fixing scheme. That
was to have been expected, of
course, and in the operation of
the plan such injustices as develop
can be removed. And those who
grumble before they are hurt are
a ver small minority of the
people.
—Ottawa Tines -Journal.
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MUCH BETTER
"Stamp collecting becomes both
a patriotic and a profitable pursuit
when the new issues are War Sav-
ings Stamps. What could be nicer
than an album filled with them?"
So asks the Hamilton Spectator.
And the answer would appear to
bet "Two albums."
—Stratford Beacon -Herald.
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WOULD "SCALP" HITLER"
Indians at York Factory, on Hud-
son Bay have sent $240 to the
Ministry of Aircraft production
with the request that they be al-
lowed to "scalp" Hitler when he
U caught. Now there's an interest-
ing idea that no one else ever
thought of,
—Chatham News.
SOME PROBLEM
According to seientists, whales'
milk is not essentially different
from cows' milk. It's getting the
Whales up from pasture which baf-
fles those who would profit by the
information.
—Stratford Beacon -Herald.
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UNDER STRAIN
There should be another way 01
teaching children than by example.
This is too great a strain on tbo
parents,
—Brandon Sun.
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OPTIMIST DEFINED
An • optimist is a man who
doesn't care what happens as long
as it doesn't happen to him.
--Kitchener Record.
India's population has increased
nearly 60,000,000 In the last ten
years, according to the new eensui.
CAVALRY COMEBACK
At last the Nazis' vaunted mechanized war machine is forced to yield as nature takes a round
against modern methods. Germans on the Russian front.. are forced to call on cavalry — the service
arm many have labeled "obsolete." Above, cavalry makes a comeback as German soldier aboard some
real "horsepower" urges a team across a stream.
C alda's Splendid War Effort
Something Everyone Sho l id Know
Fr(trre an address delivered recent-
ly by George K. Sheits, Deputy-
Mlnister of Munitions & Supply,
to an American Audience.
Canada now has 825,000 volun-
teerm in uniform serving overseas
or available for service anywhere
in the world. In addition, Canada
has a reserve army for home de-
fenee numbering 170,000 men.
Theme include many thousands of
men drafted for home defense for
the duration litho are now serving
in our training camps, or at vital
defame) posts across the Doaninion.
Asido from our reserve forces,
Qanedian enlistments for active
service abroad would be the equiv-
alent of an enlistment of close to
4,000,000 men in the United States.
The intake of men for active ser-
vice overseas numbers many thous-
ands each month.
The Royal Canadian Navy now
has more than 1200 vessels of all
type serving around the British
Isles and on the high seas, With-
in six months Canada's navy will
have about 400 ships in convoy
991e391allarYang^ tfteicoyai.,:O
edien Air Force is the British
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
---something which may well prove
to be one of the decisive factors
is the war. The air training plan
operates 100 air fields and a total
a ever 120 training establish -
pewits of all kinds. Already 1,500
Americans have enlisted in the
R. C. A. F. and 600 Americans are
aiding us greatly through serving
as instructors. There are also 7,000
Americans who have joined the
Canadian Army.
Air Training Plan
Canada provides about 90 per
cent of the studenta of the air
training plan. The remainder''come
from other Empire countries,
Month by month young mete-a1Ce,,,
being turned out in their th"ot sands
from our air schools. .••,;
In addition to our efforts dir-
ected primarily toward achieve-
ment overseas, Canada is co-operat-
ing fully with the United •States
in hemispheer defense plans.
in addition to our own direct
war effort, Canada nae made dir-
ect and vital contributions to Great
Britain. It is true that Great Bri
twin is making substantial purchas-
es in Canada. But by far the lug...
est part of the sums required to
pay Canadian producers for goods
for Britain has been raised and
must continue to be raised from
the Canadian people in taxes aad
in loans. Canada has told Britain
not to worry about her shortage
of Canadian money. Meanwhi'x,,
Britain's purchases will continae
to be paid for by Canadians.
At the end of the current f
year_..Candi 'dill_ hav-,q< firrj
Brtiain to ttille extent of" about
a billion and a half dollars, . the
equivalent of $23,000,000,000 worth
of goods measured in terries of
American population and income.
You might call this, if you will,
our "lease -lend" contribution to the
war.
Aside altogether from such.- a
contribution which, viewed in the
light of the extent of our popula-
tion, is tremendous, Canada, heriielf
is at war and in the war with hun-
dreds of thousands of the cram
of her. youth, with hundreds• of
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"Hello, Juliet!"
ships, and with a production of
munitions far in excess of the
needs of the Canadian Army. To-
day our production is such that
we conld equip a division every
few weeks. Over and above this
production, we are producing great
;quantities of munitions of war of
• a letypes which are moving over-
sea , In addition, of course, Can-
ada la paying out of her own pock-
et
ocket by far the largest proportion
of the cost of the gigantic British
•: CommonweaIth Air Training Plan.
Millions On New Projects
" Moreover, during the course of
the war, Canada, on her own re-
sponsibility, has initiated and com-
pleted projects running into the
hundreds of millions of dollars de-
signed to meet Britain's munitions
needs without any reference or
agreement regarding their ultimate
financing. The figures which may
later be written in ledgers have in
no way affected our effort, the
magnitude of which has been de-
termined only, by the limitations
of our population and our resourc-
es. In brief, we have dne our ut-
most to harness our entire econ-
omy to the single end of winning
the war.
Ours� Prime Minister has pointed
"activities °pl`uSoar'x1 artmar war
-
port of Britain, if translated into
comparable American figures on
the basis of population and in-
comes, would amount to something
like $36 billion_during the current
fiscal year.
Present estimates of the sum re-
quired to finance Canada's own
war program plus our aid to Bri-
tain amount in .the aggregate to
about 40 per cent of the anticipat-
ed national income for the year
ending March 31 next.
On the home front, our industry
has done a remarkable job. We
have built 22 chemical and ex-
plosives plants which, during the
current year, will produce. more
explosives than were produced in
Canada during the entire 1914-1918
period. •
Our shipbuilding industry has
had orders for some 225 naval ves-
sels, of which 115 have been
launched or delivered. Thirty ves-
eels have also been converted to
:naval use. In addition work has
begun on a cargo vessel program
involving the construction of 100
vessels.
Our construction industry has er-
ected some 3,000 buildings for our
forces and built over 100 airdromes.
Our automobile plants have de-
livered close to 150,000 vehicles
for army use. These vehicles have
served on many fronts.
Our aircraft industry is steadily
producing training planes for the
air training plan and fighter 'planes
for the air force. Moreover, our
aircraft industry is maintaining
and overhauling the thousands of
planes used in the air training
plan.
In World War 1, Canada pro.
ducecl shells and explosives. This
was her chief industrial contri-
bution to the war. Today Canada
is producing not only shells in
great quantities, but the filled
rounds of ammunition. Many tens
of millions of ammunition com-
ponents are being produced month-
ly, Millions of rounds of small -aril
ammunition are being produced
daily. We are manufacturing and
filling bombs, land mines, depth
charges, grenades, and mortar
bombs.
In the small time field we are
manufacturing rifles, Brew guns,
aircraft machine guns, and we
shall shortly produce tomniy guns,
antitank rifler, and Vickers guns,
In the artillery field, we are pro-
ducing the new 25 -pounder com-
plete, the most modern gun of its
type. We are producing the Bofors
antiaircraft gun and expect shortly
to produce the complete 3.7 anti-
aircraft gun and equipment for
which barrels have been made in
Canada for many months. We are
producing more than one type of
antitank gun.
In addition, we are producing
trench mortars together with nav-
al gun mountings of several var-
ieties. Work is well advanced on
the production of five types of nav-
al guns with their mountings, Can-
ada is now producing two types of
tanks and the famous. 'Universal
Carrier, in essence a light tank.
We are also producing our own
armor plate and quantities of sec-
ret weapons and instruments,
All Industry Affected
Canadian industry as a whole has
now been diverted to the war ef-
fort. Much of our industrial capac-
ity is engaged in providing us with
equipment required by the armed
forces. This ranges from X-ray
tubes to textiles, boots, potato-
peliug and dish -washing machines,
and food. Other incidentals include
anchors and -compasses, airplane
propellers and picks and shovels,
radio equipment and optical glass.
Generally speaking, the needs of
Canada's armed forces have been
obtained by three methods: first
by direct purchase; second by the
creation of industrial facilities
owned by the Government, for
which total commitments now run
to over $500,000,000; and thirdly by
the diversion to war needs of goods
normally employed for civilian
purposes.
In order to meet the raw material
and other requirements of our war
progam, the Government has estab-
lished controls designed both to
provide the necessaries of life to
the civil population and, at the
same time, to increase our pro-
duction and to divert a maximum
of production to the war indus-
tries.
Everyone Helps
Civilian purchasing power has
been curtailed, first, through the
extensive and widespread sale of
war bonds; second, through the
sale of war savings certificates
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Canadians purchase each` mouthy;
third, through the sale of war sav-
ing stamps in denominations of 25
cents; fourth, through various
campaigns encouraging Canadians
to economize; fifth, through the
introduction of heavy taxation on
incomes, on non-essential goods,
and on general civilian trade; and
sixth, through rigid regulations
permitting only the import of es-
sentials in order to conserve our
funds for the purchase of war ma-
terial abroad.
In addition to such steps, the
channels into which goods flow is
directed by means of two Govern-
ment bodies: my own department,
the Department of Munitions and
Supply, and the Wartime Prices
and Trade Board.
Controls Established
Although Canada is one of the
largest exporters of nonferrous
metals in the world, extensive and
drastic measures have been taken
to restrict the nonwar use of al-
uminum, nickel, zinc, magnesium,
tin, copper, and brass. All non-
ferrous metals and common metal
alloys, together with industrial
minerals, cannot be exported from
the Dominion except under permits
approved by our Metals Control-
ler. Moreover, we are issuing no
export license for metals intended
to replace exports which the Un-
tied States has curtailed to meet
its own defense needs. This, I sup-
pose, is but another way of say-
ing that in this struggle Canad•
cans are fully aware of their debt
to the United States, and that we
aro fully determined to play the
game with our good neighbor.
We have a Controller of Sup
plies, who is charged with provid-
ing us with a variety of raw ma•
terials such as silk and rubber.
No sill: suitable for war purposes
is being released on civilian con-
sumption. Economics in the con-
sumption of rubber have to date
largely been effected by the cur -
tailment of :,t;toinobile manufac-
ture and by o;artafling :c les of
gasoline.
No gasoline is gold at night or
on Sundayie Tee installation of oil-
huming equipment has burnt pro-
hibit•e:d, /rite the shortn.l;O, tit'1e-
es have le e•i; +strictly ce:ntrotietl,
For the future: only twa grackle of
gasoline will 'P::e+ available to ("•un-
adian coixstunkr ;, A campaign is in
progress a-,kitx ; the public to ear -
tail their eaueaniption by at least
50 per cent •q normal.
Various reek; lig have been i::tten
to augment tee supply of power to
war industry, Daylight saving bus
become a yi.,t :-ruund affair.
In the lune ':•x field, priers; Hive
been fixed, A Steel Controller was
apponited early in the war. In
July a year ,i.g0 prices of iron :Ind
steel were fnieeen.
We have - cat consumption in-
directly by rationing eiauntial
commodities+ et, mauufa.ctur:+r
This has en:+i,ied some of them lo
exercise their ingenuity in develop-
ing substitute materials.
An Arsenal Developed
During the peat two years, our
efforts have been directed to in-
creasing our production and our
productive f.;e:1lities. As a r,an'ie-
quenCe we have created an akaoxIul
the extent of which is as yet hard-
ly recognized in Canada, but which
none the kms completely over-
shadows bete, ,n magnitude and
in the rapidity of its development
anything undo:•: teleen heretofore by
Canadians.
The great industrial machine
which we iiati€` created itt Pio \V
gathering momentum, Its Merc es-
ing demands for lien and materials
will mean ins^'^'•using sacrifices by
Canadians,
Mindful of ell those vobn neev
assist us, miit,if tl of millions whose
only hope in 'fife lies solely in our
arms, aaui above, all mindful of the
high courage of our sans+ who,.
without thooget of self, struggle
to eliminate ininnin enslavement,
we shall persevere nuto t` be :end.
C„ N R. Does Well
Despite; Low Rates
Financial Situation Decidedly
Gratifying White War Work
Adds to !Burden
R. C. Vaughan, president a
the Canadian National Railways,
told the Vancouver Board of
Trade that Canadian railways are
playing a vital part in the war
effort and that the Dominion's
two great frail systems provide -
the lowest per mile freight rate
i., any vuuixcry .in the world exJe
cept Japan,
"Our average per ton rade rate
is less than half that enjoyed by
railroads in Australia, New Zea-
land, South Africa and England,"
he said. '
The Canadian National presi-
dent said the outbreak of war
threw a sudden burden on the
railways in heavy transport of
war materials and troops, but
they were prepared to handle it.
Freight traffic; increased he said,
until in the month of September
this year "it surpassed by 6(1 per
cent. the movement in the peak
year of the last war," but it had
been handled .wifely and exl.edi-
tiously,
"Quite apart from their nor-
mal functions, locomotive and car
shops are assisting directly in the
war effort by undertaking the
manufacture of numerous items
required by the various combat
services," he said. "One. shop,.
St. Maio at Quebec, has been
taken over by the Dominion ar-
senal for the manufacture of
munitions. A new shop at Mon-
treal covering 260,000 square
feet is being operated by the Na-
tional Railways Munitions Lim-
ited on special war contracts."
In addition, he said, Canadian
National Railways is also build-
ing minesweepers and cargo ves-
sels in its plant at Prince Rupert,
B.C.
Canadian National Steamships,
in addition to its own boats, "is
operating Danish, French, Fin-
nish, German and Italian vessels
seized by the Cana:;inn govern-
ment," the railway presiacnt said.
Turning to the financial status
of the Canadian National System,
the railway president said he felt
confident in a prediction that net
earnings on operations of the
railway would teach $33,000,000
this year. This, he said, would be
sufficient to pay fixed charges
and taxes.
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