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No Shortages
•'l`hQ war has interfered with a lot
pf things in. Canada, and while gar-
dening is' no exception, this interfer-
-nce will be hardly noticed by 'the
average person who orders flowers
and vegetable seeds this Spring. Be-
fore the blitzkrieg of a year ago a
considerable amount of the garden
seed used in "Canada was imported
from Denmark, Holland and Hungary.
Now this is completely cut off, of
course, and even shipments from
Great Britain have been restricted.
To meet the usual demand. however,,
greater .supplies have been forthc•ons-
.ing from within Canada itself, and al-
so from the, United States. Seeds -
men report no noti:'eabit• shortages in
either venerable ur bower lines,
Helps War Nerves
Even the mosr decorative form of
gardening can play a vital role in war
•
time. It permits one to get aay
from the endless strain on the emo-
tions, to build up energy to meet the
tasks of tomorrow. It is a restful,
nerve -restoring recreation and it is
inexpensive, a' must important point
when the whole emphasis of the
country is directed against needless
expenditure.
And gardening is a universal hobby
too, open to young and old, hien and
women, in the city or out on the
broad acres in the country,
Informal Layout .Best
In almost every ease landscape
gardeners "strictly advise informal
planting about the average house.
This is especially desirable where
space is limited as it tends to soften
the narrow, rigid fence lines and to
add an air of spaciousness even to a
20 -foot lot. In 'an informal garden,
the central portion of the ground is
1
A True Tonic
for Wood and Nerves
Invaluable at thfs season because it
supplies the Vitamin B1 and mineral
substances so necessary to improve the
quality of the blood and help the nerves,
For better appetite, better digestion,
better sleep and for better health use
Den Chase's Nerve. Food,
CONTAINS
VITAMIN
8-1
COL. E. A. DEACON
who is Director of Auxiliary Ser-
vices, Canadian (Active) Army.
entirely in grass. Around the edges
of this •twill be grouped beds of per-
ennial and annual flon-ers, leading up
to shrubs and vines along the walls
or fence boundaries.
Where the garden is larger, experts
advocate screening off a portion by
bringing forward the surrounding
shrubbery at one point, or using a
hedge, wall or trees so that the whole
garden will not be entirely visible
from any one point of observation.
This will add further to that air of
spaciousness and also 'provide a se -
eluded corner or two for a child's
swing, or sandbox or, possibly, a seat
or trellis -covered table.
NEXT WEEK -Building up garden
soil, lawn care. getting most out of a
veget .abie garden.
WHO
PAYS
,>e
Messrs. Jones and Messrs. Brown both make shoes -shoes
exactly similar in quality and style. Messrs. Jones do not
advertise. Messrs. Brown do, and sell a very much greater
quantity than Messrs. Jones in consequence. Who pays for
Messrs. Brown's advertising?
Not Messrs. Brown --because their profit -on the quantity
sold --is Messrs. Janes' profit multiplied many times. Not
the public -because, they get, for $4.00, shoes of a' quality
for which Messrs. Jones charge $410: -/Not the retailer -
because the profit is the same in both cases.
No one pays for advertising. It is an economy -not a
Charge. It does for the operation of selling what 'Messrs.
Brown's machinery does for the - operation of making ,
shoes -speeds it up, and multiplies its efficiency. -It (tykes
possible big -scale, production and so.reduces costs.
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Pais To Advertise
Monday.,Feb. 24
Today the debate on ,the Depart-
ment of External Affairs was resum-
ed. Mr. Hansom who had asked for
the adjournment of this debate last
week, was the first speaker. His re-
marks were critical and covered
much ground. Notwithstanding Mr.
Churchill's and. Mr. King's opinion re-
gardling setting up a war cabinet in
Britain, Mr. Hanson was all for it.
The two, mentioned above were not
favorable to it at all. He thought
Mr. King. should go to Britain and see
things for himself. He was also criti-
cal regarding the production of war
material; of course the debate on ibis
question will be 'under the War Ap-
propriationnBill.
He lamented the fact that no Cana-
dian troops were in Egypt to help in
the battle against the Italians. He
was opposed to setting up legations
in South America. He wanted full in-
formation .on our relationship with
the U.S.A. He had words of praise
for what Australia was doing in the
war effort of the Empire.
Mr. Hanson was critical, but be was
at the same 'time carrying out the
functions of an opposition leader,
Mr. Colwell followed Mr. Hanson
and made a very good speech which'
was listened to ,with attention. He
was anxious to know definitely what
we were. fighting for', and what 'sort
of a social order will we have after
'thee war is over.
Mr. Blackmore''s contribution to the
debate was on domestic problems, and
made little' reference to external af-
fairs.
The outstanding speech of the day
was delivered by the Minister of Jus-
stice, Hon. E. Lapointe, who is now
starting his 88th year as a member
of this House. In this session, as in
the last, proposals were being made
fon a Union Government. Some edi-
tors of some of the daily papers have
actually inn dered! the Government
war effort:'by insisting an this point
to such an extent that they appear to
be deliberately trying to create a
want of confidence in the Government
and in this way to force their hand.
Mr. Lapointe dealt forcibly arid can-'
didly with these representations. He
pointed put that the Canadian people
had given this Government a man-
date to carry on Canada's war effort
on their responsibility, but they defin-
itely turned down the nation Govern -
meant advocates, and as Mr. Lapointe
clearly pointed out, Mr. King has no
mandate to form a union government
unless there should be a general elec-
tion held 1cir ,such a purpose.
Mr. Lapointe reminded the official
opposition that each of them was a
candidate 'for. a national government
and, referred to the Parliamentary
Guide to show this was true.
It was amusing when. a number of
them protested that they had' ran as
straight Conservative candidates;
among...those who •sfobd up was the
Member for North Huron,
Mr. Lapointe made it abundantly
clear that there. Would be .no' union
government.
Mr. Homuth • .(Con.) revived the
Bren gun issue,but really must 'have
felt humiliated when Mr. Howe gave
a full account of the wonderful suc-
cess. the Inglis Company has made.
This company is now acting for the
Government of Britain and Canada in
the production of some 97,500 auto-
matic guns. -
Mr. Howe was quite annoyed re-
garding the comments that have been
made regarding these contracts and
promised eves against the wishes of
the U. • K. Government to • give full de-
tails regarding- aeroplane production,,
as well • as the guns.
The House was shocked by the re-
port of Dr. Banting's death in an ac-
cident in Newfoundland.
* * *
Tuesday, Feb. 25
External affairs over which the
Prime Minister ,presides was the sub-
ject before the House today, but the
debate covered many things -not very
closely connected with Eternal Affairs.
at a11. The talk ranged all the way
from Tokyo to Washington, on, to
London, Ireland, Latin Republics and
many foreign countries, then back to
our own domestic problems, ending in
an amusing scrap betv-een the C.C.F.
'and the S.C. groups. '
One of the announcements made
was the appointment of Leighton Mc-
Carthy, a Toronto lawyer, to the Can-
adian Ministry at Washington. This
Met with the approval of the opposi-
tion.
Of interest to Ontario, was the dis-
cussion on the waterways project. In-
dications are that this will 'be a live
subject .for deb,°e nitliieii the time
conte for a ilf discussion of all the.
ramifCations• in connection with this
problem. It is understood here that
the Ontario Gavelninent is in favor
of getting on ' with this work while
Quebeet Is generally„ speaking opposed.
Today the questkin of the export,;
of .power was brought Out by several
Speakers. Where seemed to he nmol -
Mous ,opi'tiieti that power should not
be egpttrte}I at a price lower that
that charged our owii industries•. All
iisne pofnt•'t'o a vigorous debate *heti
she lite eeeies for this probleiff to
1 e Shady, dettitt. With.
',,,IClear the dloae of the sitting today.
lib -4npp:neen orobleln, in 1`Xritisit . a>
graft Wast Again debated mid
111110Y":111efifileneTet'sfient,tP gets,
night's rest. They turn ind,t4
nd counhe4
t sp; Often ',tap it On
'nerves" when It tmsy lte,they b',loidneys,
f [eallley ludlneys, Mier poMws 614 10e
bloo&„ "3f theyera fauhy.anrd 1 *I, Ipo n1
stay lu th° systen i and sleep espnea,>tx;.BOOd-
ache, backache often follow If ani dor? t
sleep well, try Dodds Kidney for'
half la century the favorite remedy. 103
Dodds Kidney Pills.
evident that there is a strong feeling
against the Japs in that province.
However, the general feeling was
that this was not the proper time to
take any drastic action to deal with
it.
* * *
Wednesday, Feb. 26
Today in the House of Commons,
Honourable Mr. Howe took two 'hours
in which to give a detailed statement
of the enormous job his department
has carried on since the wa broke
out.
It is well known that the Financial
Post of Toronto has carried on a
campaign, --whether deliberately or
not, designed to destroy confidence in
the whole government task of .pro-
duction of war materials.
It almost wrecked the Bren gun
contract and as a result an, expendi-
ture of some $25,000.00 on two in-
vestigations brought about bythe
statements of the Maclean publica-
1
(Bir Walter Martini In Montreal,
Standaprd)
Ina sequence of "The (treat Dicta-
tor" Hynkel is told by an, w 4erling
that the people are .'-grbliprg.
"Why?;'' he wants to know and is in-
formed. "They are objecting to the
quality of sawdust in the bread!"
Sawdust purveyed, by the bakers of
Hynliel's realm it appears was ersatz
sawdust and folks wanted the real
thing. To the fact thety would con-
tinue to get sawdust of one !rind or
another instead of dough In their
bread they appeared resiglned
Canada, world's premier wheat pro-
ducer, could ,hardly be reduced to use
of,inferior bread whatever the length
of any war engaged in by her. Silk
however is something else again and -
sisters of the girl who recently wrote
The Standard suggesting women give
up silk stockings from mid-May until
tions...•
After this huge expenditure the net
result was that in the first investiga-
tion, Justice Davis reported that in
the evidence, subinitted there was not
even a suspicion of corruption:
In the investigation before the Pub-
lic Accounts 'Committee the opposi-
tion members refused to sit down and
draft a report of any 'kind, which
clearly indicated that they had abso-
lutely nothing to report, and this 'ef=
ter some 48 sittings of the committee.
But the Maclean Company has con-
tinued to spread stories that has no
doubt caused serious situations in our
production plants as was indicated :by
Mr. How.e when he spoke of losing
key .omen who were worried about
their positions and sought employ-
ment elsewhere.
Mr. Howe charged the Financial
Pest -as being No. 1 Saboteur in Can-
ada since the beginning of the war.
The applause that followed this re-
mark indicated the feeling that exists
against this particular paper. Mr.
Howe charged that,,the Post was buy-
ing space in other papers to carry
on 'ifs' sabotage in the' • t name of
Patriotism.
For some time articles have appear-
ed indicating that Mr. McMillan, who
was lumber controller, and Mr. Howe
had quarreled. This was deinied and
Mr, Howe stated that Mr. MacMillan
had' complained to him that he had
been sabotaged by unfounded allega-
tions.
There are 10 divisions in the war-
time production department. Seven
of these are ahead of schedule in pro=
duction; three are behind, but are
.now improving their position. A re-
port was tabled from Mr. MacMillan
showing how far wrong the stories
were regarding his recommendations.
-The' brunt of the criticism was
against Federal Aircraft Limited.
This company was set up last July
after the collapse of France and when
Britain was unable to send over the
AvraAnsen Bomlber plalnes nor' train-
ing purposes. This is the organiza-
tion that is supposed to have gone
downs He said no production by this
organization was 'expected •before .this
coming March, and no volume before
June or July of this year. Mr. Howe
admitted that there was tremendous
difficulties to overcome and they Chad
found it necessary to change the head
of the organization.
Mr. Howe gave a lengthy state-
ment in reference to the whole pro-
duction carried on under his depart-
ment and stated that notwithstand-
ing the fact that the Financial -Pose
had him almost broken down, the was'
still carrying on as head of the de-
partment.•
Mr. Hanson followed and he 'start-
ed out to warn Mr. Howe of the dan-
ger he was facing when and if he,
said anything about the press. How-
ever, he ended up by making one of
the most terrible indictments of 'the
press that has been heard in the
House. Mr. Hanson said; "If the
Minister is 'wise he will watch his
step when he attacks the press; my
experience' is that no matter how just
Your cause may be, how strongly
right you may be on your side, or
how pure your conscience, the press
will always have the last word.
Therefore, I think it is a 'work of
superior agitation to attack them.
r It is muds better to suffer ihi s'ilenee
then to go ahead and fight those fel-
lows when you cannot tight them on
your owin grounds.
Not even Mr. Iiotwe's indictment
was stronger than the above:
Mr.: -Hanson had only a few minutes
to deal with Mr. Howe's statemefrit
end•it will be up for discussion again,
*-, * *
Thursday, Feb. 2;7
When the war started, regtlationa
for the defence of Canada, were 114-
ttlediately prit into force, The British
Pattern Was followed anti it -goes ve�i q
fa,r, • overlopkiing nothing In actual til'
potential si:ringeneies or for eunf iar'y
actiten.- Primarily these regitlationts
are designiad tib protect the, tetitrtry
0galnat.' stOyeriilve li,fs'tivitie Of, 6,ty
No 'or' the st£botage ;of b ' " ar er»
fort.
It is under this war measure that
ail internments are made, These reg-
r;ations were under consideration
yesterday,
Last year a house committee con-
sidered these regulations carefully
and elndors_ed them; this year another
committee will be set up to go over
them again. Mr. Caldwell, C.C.F.,
was a member of the committee last
year. He will be a member of the
mmittee this year, but he is not
satisfied with the regulations as they -
ere and will seek changes in them.
Mr. •Caldwell contended that some
it high places were not dealt with,
w1 3e others were, and there is some
truth in this statement. He referred
to an editorial in the Ottawa Citizen
in January and the Minister of Jus-
tice intimated that the writer of the
editorial will be dealt with.
The Financial Post as 'Saboteur No.
1 was also referred to., The Minister
of Justice stated that he intended to
enforce the regulations without fear
or favor.
It was the Minister of Justice's esti-
mates that were under consideration
and most of the •day was spent' on
these estimaes.
During the, last half hour the Min-
ister of Agriculture had the floor and
gave an outline of the. work of his
Department for the year.
The agricultural estimates are im-
portant considerations this year as
the Government realizes that there is
altogether too wide a spread! between
farm products and the price of, the
commodities the farmer has to pur-
chase.
* *
Friday, Feb. 28
During the lastfederal election,
Hon. Dr. Manion assured' the country
that if elected' to lead a government
he would select- the 'beat brains in
Canada to assist him.
Demands were repeatedly made to
give the names of those who Possess
ed the best brains of the country. The
people never . received any answer to
this pertinent question.
Today Mr. Diefenbaker (Cons., of
Lake Center) suggested an outstand-
ing gentleman, butt he is not now in
Canada. The suggestion was made
that Hon. Mr. Bennett be recalled; to
speed up productions in aeroplanes' as
this is one part of our program that
has . not kept pace with others.
There would seen;' to be a certain
irony of circumstances in the sugges-
tion of the Saskatchewan ,rpem+ber,
for it is well known that the Con-
servative party pitched Mr. Bennett
overboard and it is also *ell known
that many of the papers 'that are
now so violent it their criticism were
also all for getting rid of Mr. Ben-
nett.
Therefore, this suggestion did cause
a obit of amusement to most members,
but embarrassment to the official Op-
position'.
The aeroplane industry is quite af-
ferent to that of most. industries •'in
that it is quite impossible to have
massed production owing to the fact
that changes in design ere made so
frequently and rapidly that the Whole
business has the manufacturer bewil-
dered, •
It was just in its infancy in Canada
when war. broke out; now there is
some $180,000,000 placed in orders for
planes needed for" war purposes. It
is recalled that the contract for the
first Bren guns -provided two years
for the company to get their tools,
dies, jigs and machines all ready to
start their production. In the Manu-
facture of aeroplanes, apparently,
some manufacturers were too optim-
istic regarding what could 'be doe in
a short time. Subcontractors also
have added to the worries of getting
into the production desired.
Mr. Howe gave a frank discussion!
of the whole question, today. Behind
it all one could detect a• scheme by
big business tb dictate the polio of
the Department of Munition and Suis
ply. The Financial Pest, as t h e
Mouthpiece of the financial interebts,
is certainly ereating stlgpieion lin this
respect by paying for advertising
space in many papers to ,spread their
viewpoint.
The conelusid'iis: -generally reached
by the Member fa.that 'hinge
wins' wouid`ot be' spent in. Me mann
net if there was net Some 'purpose tb'
be set, ec'i; :and one -does tit need to
tie 'awake at ought wondering What
that Pumice is.. ,
the float& minister intimated to
days Utat tits 'Bifid : tvtoll.ict ►e trash!,
to be''',preselitea talki�` ilbtifsl9 as soa7ti
ttOt 'tiaiita ie w 111466 the ,,, bliab IAA
been' `1'
September will 'shortly Sad not only
silk 'stockings --but all other silks~--
tc be completely unobtainable,
No need to despair, however, for
milady will find her legs qui tate
fully sheathed with cool ' and spruce
tree, or mayhap cotton, !reduced by
the genius of modern chemistry to a
Very passable ersatz product. Until
the war shall be over silks has been
sentenced to death and it will not b.
merely unpatriotic to wear genuine
silk but impossible to get it.
License Needed
Sentence of execution' has been
passed by Ottawa. Imiport of silk is
now allowed only under license and
notice has been served that licenses
will be harder and harder to procure:
Immediate reasons are the need for
conserving Canada's holdings of
United States dollars and the more
and unfriendly actions of Japan, pro-
ducer of silk fibre. Hardest hit of
all silk items is ladies' hosiery for'
it requires some eighty per cent of
all silk imported through. the U.S.
from Japan. Should the U.S. and.
Nippon find themselves squaring off
in the international arena pure sick
would become almost.a collector's it-
em in these parts.
With silk slated for oblivion by the
end of,.the year just what will milady
wear. Much will depend on her al-
ways' unpredictable whimsy, 'backed
by more or less astute 'publicity on
the part of the substitute produce s.
Major choices will be nylon, ray
and lisle and a few mixtures will be
offered. La Canadiana to date has
not taken kindly to -rayon, ctharging
it with inelasticity, nolittle handicap
to women, with thin legs who find
rayon stockings become "baggy" with
wear,
•Although production of nylon still
lags, nylon hosiery seems assured of
a better hearing -or wearing. It• is
superior to even silk in strengthand
elasticity, but there's always a -fly hi
somebody's ointment and this time
it's allergy; that inexplicable some-
thing which causes even beefy wres-
tlers to go into a tailspin at sight of
a carrot.
Besidesthe allergy which a per-
centage of the fair sex have for nylon
this' substitute faces another possibil-
ity in its future struggle.•for a place
in the sun, or rather, on the limb.
Japan, by the time nylon is in mass
production throughout the Dominion,
may be a belligerent. With our Gov-
ernment deprived of the silk which
they would already have deprived the
women of, (nylon would' be promptly
conscripted, for parachutes; electri-
cal` wire must becovered too, -anal
this is regarded as a, war necessity.
Hence Varachuters bid fair to become
an increasing , prize to women, com-
batants, floating to earth as they; do,
suspended by 'hundreds of silk stock-
ings.
Silk is actually the second textile
"bottleneck" Canada . has run into
since entering the war. the'sudden
Mt for more ' and more wool to uni-
form troops early bottlenecked that
textile and, taught Government to an-
ticipate shortages in silks with ,prior,
action Sather than to sit back, hands
folded, ,and await trouble. Thus cer-
tain supplies of silk are 'being per-
(Cotutdmued, on Pa$e 7)
LONDON and WINGHAM
NORTH
Exeter
Hensall
,Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
Lpndesboro
Blyth
Belgrave
Winghtim
SOLTH
Wingham
Belgravia
Blyth
Londeaboro -
Clinfon
Brucefield
Klppen
Hensali
Exeter
A.M.
10.34
10.46
10.52
11.00
11.47
12.06
12.16
12:27
12.45
P.M.
1.50
2,06
2.17
2.26
3.08
3.28
3.38
C.N.R. TSE TABLE
EAST
3.45
3.58
A.M. P.M.
Ctoderich 6.15 2.30
Holmesville 6.311 2.48
Clinton . 6.43 3.00
Seafortli ,,, .. ,. 6.59. 3.12
St.Oolunsban 7.05 8.23.
Dublin 7.12 3.29
Mitchell . :, • 7.24 3.41
WEST
Mitchell 11.06 9.28
Dublin 11.14, 93`6
•Seafortth Hisao 8 4 -
Clinton 11.45 10.00
Goderieb 12.05 10.26
C.P.R TIME' TABLE
EAST
God'erich
'Niemen
IvInG•aw
Anlsurn -...,
Blyth
Walton ...... ........5.05
±v 0Naught .. 5.15
Toronto• 9.80
WEST
Urea() 8.30
M eNaanght
V�IY�tKcpl,µr��,y, IC ......................12.03
WelltobP, '1213
Myth2.23
1LLHi..Y ..-. „. 11.011rj
.e #,et y�1,Y, 1146
P.M
4.20
4.24
4.32
A.42
4.63
1.1