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don down, in. poll:004W ration Candi‘
SO I tool free to give. XelleVaTqw
pression, unbiased; of this trell1M347
ously vital thing w13/0k le 43rdaring
bur very lives, tying to lnsen a mile
ab.ead of inflation. and thins prier -ant
the evils of deflation after the wan.
Carte Blanche—No Punches Pulled
I wasn't asked to pull punohes. Thai
Shows I don't look like a Politician.
t was given carte blanche to briek
ii-
1de the engine, tenask questions, to
Interview the really 'big names who
handle Canada's great wartime econ-
omy, and that in itself was a thrill.
And there, take my word for it, you'd
be impressed like I was. From butter
rationing to subsidies the men doing
the jab are in my opinion sincere,
patriotic, hard working and don't let
anone \guff. you about politics and
buteaucracy. It's all such a colossal
but necessary thing.
They admit mistakes have . been
made. They also admit they are hu-
man -even the experts •and economic
advisers; but they're all aiming to-
wards the, best deal for the greatest
!number, to involve the least hardship
for all of us a war which is bring-
ing new and ever increasing, intricate
problems affecting our very lives. Just
remember when you shake your head
wisely •at your neighbor and say
isoittething about "them guys at ,Ot-
tawa," that one time you left the barn
door open, bossy wandered out into
the blizzard and you lost yourself a
hundred bucks or so.
One Living Standards Involved
Believe me, if you and I are to 'con-
tinue eating the nutritive foods- nec-
essary to our complex organisms, to
fortify us for what may be a long and
terrible war -pull (and after the war);
if you and I. are going to, be able to.
continue paying and. receiving wages
adequate to a fairly decent continuing
standard of living; if the producer
and laborer is to reap in at least some
worthy measure the efforts of his toil
while this war lasts—without any too
explosive disruptions—it will be be-
cause this organization thinks, acts
and continues in its (what appears to
,me to, be) sincerity of purpose, let
the chips fall where they may.
I propose this series 'of articles to
be just a plain,unvarnished telling of
what I saw in Ottawa, Montreal and
Toronto. I would like to be ,able to
tell you in . the same way, your own
editor,, d,oenewhen he's on the beam
about something. I want to tell what
thinks the, head of the whole outfit,
Chairmae, of the. Board, Donald Gor-
don, that big, dark Scotsman who dyn-
amically leads this organization and
who, by the way, might look like the
herdwareeman or- the blacksmith in
your town. He talked to me as if I,
myself, meant something. in this
world. That, to me, was the clue why
even stenographers keep the midnight
oil burning in this organization — and
I do mean to work. ,
Research Economist Phyllis Turner
Then take Mrs. Phyllis G. Turner,
administrator for Oils and Fats for
Canada and a member of the United
Nations Committee on these vital com-
modities. She's a former .ehief 're-
search economist of the Tariff 'Board;
strikingly beautiful woman doing a
tremendously big job in something
you'll be intensely interested to hear
about later if you stick with me long
;enough filals series.
Then there's Kenneth W, Taylor
who I talked with, 'Secretary of the
Board, a 'McMaster man, an economist.
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are 'alf aware of the thinga tha
baie changed• In the past Xluiniber °
years. At least we know 'of the big
things:43;14 leave clia4ed but 1*nu
der how niany of us bare ,Paid
ttentiloix t' the 11e tinge. Chance
are we 13aVen't. tioWe'ver,, we hav
"ChSiged our thinking e, grist den
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t to go to' a ineetbs.g'atethe•hall
f a nearby IOWA., When we were gain
in Iniceticed 'Several 'gentlemen fortify
ng themselves frbra a'bealthy look
y ing .blaeln bottle, As I recall' it now
S Probably ifTWSA nerve tonin to brace
"3 themselves Against the ordeal of th
l'crowd. The' hall was packed iIll and
it was very warm and there vas a
s great deal of chescring.
n Our principal speekeretrode out on
the 'floor, bowed and `with a grand
wave of his whiskeris took his place.
- The crowd went wild. He carefully
✓ crossed his legnepelisised his spec-
tacles and waved to several people in
• the crowd. They beamed back and
- looked, around to make certain that
- everybody knew the ones he was way-
- ing at. When it came time for him to
speak he carefully unfastened anen-
ormous gold snatch from a chain and
put it on the table. He must have for -
,00lion* .'"om
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edto Mat to, Oilr-,i10mPa teNeii;t
natal barriefs and 't4friesidly xteigl3
/We for: (Mr nii.fetrcisOlitWing that tie
harriers and the 33,0glabere kept Pee -
g spite eneM,Ms at a dfance and a Pi-
' advantage. Hostile 4,933.1es needed to
- March overland fintle navies to Sall
, over stens to get at -ns.
B1it. the neer air Petniret Imo altered
e !this' atate' of thjngs,, :lft will Ibe fins
Bible for any, aggressor: to equip small,
forces and though nerha.Ps not in our
time, whole expeditioas to , travel en-
tirely by air. Such e4r-borne invad-
ers can ignore motintains, seas and
intervening countries .and proceed di-
rectly to their target, and it will be
possible for the Swiss to wage a war
with Bolivia or China with Argentina.
All wars will begin with Pearl Har-
bors, with a, sudden. rain of bombs
on cities or military equipment in its
broadest sense, except that the invad-
ing aircraft will not need arriers at
sea as did the Japanese, but will use
their'hozne lands as bases, at first at
any rate. In respect of military dan
ger, the world will be one, and what
goes on in the mountains of Tibet
may well be a matter of great import-
ance to us on the North American
continent. At the least sign of ag-
gression: the 'whole world will be
tense; war Will run like 'a forest fire,
and we shall live in fear that some
night a raiding force may fly down
among us and lay our cities in ruins
.�r settle' down to seize. some vital
point for a war of conquest. Not that
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already have or Will
liaie good /binges in Great • Britginc
France and Russia and if we need any
more we can require the low erne
tries or the Scandinavian• etatee to
7,Tprovide them. So long an •*e"nre
quuniett,ed, and have the military equils-
ment, we can keep the Germane
But Japan is a different matter, be-
ing as far away as possible from the
centres of military strength of Great
BrItaine'the United States and RUS-
sia. We must have bases within easy
reach of ,her; and, in fact, we have
them in normal times, and all we
need do is to keep them, that is our
present military establishments in
eastern Asia. It would be most un-
wise for 'us to give up our 'vantage
points there and specifically the`U.S,
ought not to retire from •the
pines, the Dutch from their islands,
Great Britain from Honk Kong, Bur-
ma and India.
It is in this light that we may con-
sider the prciposal advanced by Mr.
Wilkie and seconded by some well-
meaning people, that the Europeans
should retire from Asia and its islands
and hand the territories over to the
natives; but I understand that he
doe e not mean Russia and its colonial
islands on the fringe of Siberia. We
ignore this discrimination and exam -
along many lines. I suppose thole Is
progress, but there were some thing
that added a good, deal to our lives i
the way of thrills when we were
young.
A 'Member of Parliament was a re
spected man in my day, no matte
what your own political belief might
happen to be. Elections were .bittei
and fraught with physical disturbane
es as Well aS verbal encounters. Ev
eryone took that for granted. How
ever, when armee. was elected and
made that trip to Ottawa, he was
looked iipon-vsith a great deal of per-
sonal respect, especially by the young
er members of the various families in
our township.
We hardly ever had the opportun-
ity of seeing a Member of Parliament,
but when he did come It was a day
to be remembered. The church used
to have a picnic down on slthe flats
alongside the rtver. As a rule, the
youngsters ate ice-cream and candy
until they were at the point of being
violently sick. For many of us our
ineniories of these occasions seem to
swim in a sheimmering.veil of hideous
sick spells during the latter part of
the evening. , At the same time I will
never forget the sight of the local
M.P. •stieding up to the admission
wicket and throwing down a gve-dol-
lar hill and with a grand flourishde-
clinig 'any change. Being able to
throw five -dollar hills around in such
a way was in itself something to be
admired from my youthful views,
which were influenced to a certain ex-
tent by the fact that my allowance
was only twenty-five cents for such an
occasion.
In the heat of a political campaign
when I was quite young, my father
decided to bring me up in his finest
political tradition, so he •bundled me
•
gotten apout it, because he talked on
eadless*. But his words flowed out
irt, a very dramatic way and tired as
rgreiv-, I couldn't help but be thrilled.
Members of Parliament don't ,seem
like such romantic figures in these
modern days. They drive in with an
ordinary looking car and without the
trappings and the beauty of a span of
black trotters. They talk for awhile
andsometimes ask for a vote and
then go on their way. I wonder if the
small boys of now will hold memor-
ies of them in the same way as we
hold memories of the bewhiskered,
dramatic gentlemen who used to dom-
inate our picnics with their -presence.
The same' thing applied to doctors
in the days when they drove horses.
The doctor's team usually was a beau-
tiful thing to see. Down the road
they would come, necks arched, with
a flashing of silv.er-buckled harness. If
you were on your why home from
school the usual thing to do was to
stand on the side of the road and
Wave. If the doctor waved back, you
would stand and watch the horses and
rig until it became merely a floating
dust cloud down the road. That night•
you would dream of the day when
you could be in his place.'
of standing, who certainly knows what T
it's ail about. His type of person
(like, the others) doesn't have to fiddle
with politics. And women readers
will surely he interested in what
Byrne Hope ,Sanders told me. She's
better known as Editor of Chatelaine
and now heads Consumers branch di-
vision, with its farflung chain of
"watching" local committees. Behind
her discerning, intelligent eyes you
oeuld,,,yisual4e, hers as an yonnegennom
in the 'kitchen slicing around the pie
•dough.
Information From Source
Are you interested in hoarding,
etc.- You'd be surprised what I learns
ed from Fred A. McGregor, adminis-
trator of the Enforcement division.
You'd take him for your own church
minister. He doesn't look like Him-
mler and hates- anyone who, gets
tough, but he's sure a firm guy. His
division, understandably, has a big
job and he's concerned mainly with
the fellow who wants to gyp you and
I. Then there's 'Dr. G. E. Britnell,'
S-askatchewanuniversity man, eco-
nomic adviser to the Foods Adminis-
tration. Why that man's head is al-
ways as full of butter, eggs, hogs,
cheese, beef end 'milk as Canada's
farms collectively' are. He sees the
picture more than he doe's statistics.
More about that later, to.
Imagine rationing millions of peo-
ple, cars and stuff. That wi5uld make
your head swim it Montreal, and I'll
try to explain later, logically, how L.
B. Unwin, a C.P.R. Vice-President,..and
his folks go about it. Andnwhat do
you think is in the mind, of placid
administrator H. H. Bloom at Toronto,
who handles what you can get in farm
machinery in this greatest of agricul-
tural countries? There were many
others.
I've got a lot of stuff filed away in
my raind, but it's got to be boiled
down—all of it—to make not toe tir-
ing reading that will give you an ap-
preciation and understanding of
what's :being done to YOUR way of
life. On how you 'react to the poli-
cies and regulations laid down may
eventually depend that same way of.
life. Bear with me through the fol-
lowing few weeks and I'll do the best
I can to explain why and how they're
doing it.
And re/member, we, the people, on-
ly paid for my ham and eggs while I
was away' from borne. I.didn't have
fo pat anyone on the lack. I remain,
like you, a small town guy or guyess,
sTI stick around and tune in next week.
QualityMaintained
Last summer one of the main .com-
plaints Mita farm housewives was
that the quality Sif goods on the Cana-
dian market was deteriorating. Many
months ago the Wartime Prices and
Trade Board issued strict orders that,
aside from efforts at simplification,
the quality of any goods placed on
the market was •to`be maintained up
to the standards of normal times as
far as it was possible under, war con-
ditions. , •
Recently the Board has taken fur-
ther Steps to nailed against any undue
deterioration of qi ality in goods bv
setting tfp a Standards Section of the
supply division. It is expected that it
will do much in, the way of setting
up definite • measnreinents of quality
schedules May; be
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Seen in the
County Paper
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Crows -Seen- Fridky -Lasts
With this district in the grip of one
of the winters 'Which old timers class
as the kind we used to have, there
are some signs that point toward
spring despite the fact that the
groundhog saw his shadow last week.
Snakes have been reported on the
snok; squirrels have been seen frisk-
ing about, but the latest is that the
crows have arrived. On Friday when
coming, into town Gordon Elliott was
surprised to hear and see some crows
near town on the Lucknow road. He
says that it is the earliest that he
has ever seen these birds arrive. May-
be spring is just around the corner.—
Winghain Advance -Times.
Roblin Library Elects Officers
The inaugural meeting of the Clin-
ton nubilelibrary board was held in
the Town Hall board room Monday
evening. Organization for the year
1943 was proceeded with and resulted
as follows: Chairman, B. J. Gibbings
(re-elected); secretary, Miss M. A.
Stone; treasurer, M. T. Corleas; corn-
mittees (first named being chair -
Man) Finance, Miss Stone, W. S. R.
Holmes, H. D. Cameron; property,
Gibbings, Cameron, Holmes, Jeffer-
son; books, Miss Edna Jamieson, Miss
Stone, Mr. Jefferson, Miss Minnie
Rudd is librarian. She has 'held the
position uninterruptedly for the past
25 years, rendering a splendid public
service.—Clinton News -Record.
Another. Big Pig
'Mr. George McGowan, of East Wa-
wan•osh, marketed a sow last week
that is worthy of note in the paper.
She weighed 760 pdunds live weight,
and dressed out at 635 pounds. He
sold her 'to Watson Bros., who paid
him exactly S90.60 for the animal. It
Will be remembered that Mr. McGow-
an matketd a large rig over a year
ago which weighed about 100 pounds
heavier thlin the one we are record-
ing this week, but he did, not realize
as much in money on it due to lower
prices at the time. Jack Watson
claims that the two pigs mentioned
above are first cousins.. It warn
through him that we obtained ,the
above inforreation.-131yth Standard.
R. A. F. Truck in Crash Due to Ice
Spun on to the wrong side of the
road by a chunk of ice, an R.A.F.
truck from Clinton was struck by an-
other truck and received $150 damage
on No. 7 highway, a half 'mile north
of Mooresville last Wednesday. H.T.O.
Harry Lemon, who investigated, said
the northbound RAF: ' machine, 'driv-
en by LAC. Harvey, pulled towards
the shoulder of the road to give 'plen-
ty of room to' an approaching truck,
driven Is'Y J. H. Burrows, R. R. 1, Wil-
ton Prober A lose piece of ice on the
highway threw the air force truck into
a skid which carried it directly Intel_
the path of the oncoming truck. No
charges Were laid.—ClintOn News -Re -
Cord.
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we shall *fear all this every moment
of our livAs, but we certainly shall
fear it at the slightest disturbance of
the peace.. We may add that as long
as human nature is human nature,
there will 'be persons who will play
with fire, and there will be no lack
of persons with the will to set the
world ablaze in the hope qf gaining
power over their fellows by a sudden
strokeat some ill -armed country.
In face of such a prospect, no na-
tion can afford to disarm and thus in-
vite attack by an aggressor. We must
maintain armed forces at a certain
standard, provide air-raid shelters,
teach the people air-raid precautions
and.: guerilla warfare, disperse our
munitions, industries over the coun-
try and indeed spread out our cities
so that not more than three or four
buildings shell occupy a block. Abroad
we shall watch with a jealous eye the
bases from which attacks on us could
be maintained, and we shall try to
see that they are in friendly hands.
We must recognize that an unarmed
nation is a standing invitation to an
aggressor and is in fact a source of
danger to its neighbors and to all
the world. We cannot therefore per-
mit the existence of pouterIess states,
and we must see to it that weak na-
tions either maintain the best armed
force they can, or permit the strong
nations to garrison them and use bas-
es on their territory. All of this
means not more freedom for small
nationalities but less, and there must
be some control of weak nations by
strong ones in the interest of world
safety. We repeat: unarmed nations
will be h_etanding temptation to an
aggressor and the very existence of
such possible prey .will of itself evoke
an aggressor.
. This is not apretty picture, but we
Must face the facts, and, not delude
ourselves. .Indeed ,one of the great
faults of the treaty of Versailles was
the setting up ,Of a number of new
nationalities' to; weak to defend
themselves., There were also old na-
tionalities like the Scandinavian
states which saw no heed to defend
themselves, and it was not long. be-
fore aggressors arose to devour both
new and old weak states and to use
their territory for world conquest.
Hence in .the coming peace we ought.
to create no -new nationalities unable
to defend themselves or at least to
get prompt and sufficient help from
stronger neighbOrS.'
Now we may consider the problem
of peace with Germany and Japan,
ignoring the Italians who `have no na-
tural taste or ability for aggression
and are not likely to cause Srouble
again. We shall not think of exterm-
inating the Germans and.Japaneseas
the Romans did wlll Carthage; for
there are many good Germans and
Japanese and we do not want to pun-
ish the innocent with the guilty. Be-
sides we dislike massacres on pile, -
cline. We could indeed try to hold
them down with garrisons.,or put a
limit on theirinclustries: and it is sug-
gested that we might give them teach-
ers to teach them better manners.
Nething, however, excites the resent-
ment ofhighly nationalist peoples
mere than foreign garrisons, who
would produce a continual high irri-
tation in these proud countries. They
would blacken us as violators of the
rights of nations, work. 10concert
with any other states in a bad temper
with un and would keep the word in
.fear and turmoil. Our aim is pacifi-
cation and our occupation of Germany
and Japan can b only temporary. Nor
can welimit or forbid their heavy in-
dustries; we must allow free scope
for their .mechanical ingenuity and en-
terprise', partly to keep them honestly
innin. partly to avoid an accusation
e' exercise-ig economic oppression.
The suggestion about teachers is
quite impracticable, for the German
alid Japanese children • would merely
hate the foreing inetructOrs and dis-
believe every word they said. We
minht require Germans .and Japanese
to help repair the dainage they have
done, but we must not *pose an in-
demnity too heavy to be Paid within
a few Pears. We must give these
peoples to turn their tottaiderable
abilities into .15Seful cthai1li1s And to
me merely the general proposition he
suggets: Now the populations of the
colonial areas of Asia are generally
passive and unwarlike, interested in.
religion rather than in politics,with
little industrial strength and yet en-
joying great riches. Siam is rather
typical of these peoples; it yielded to
Japan without a struggle, much more
easily, than British Burma or the Am-
erican Philippines, although in both
of these areas large elements of the
population were indifferent -to the in-
vaders. .These peoples could not in
fact defend themselves and yet their
property's a great prize. If the west-
ern powers were to withdraw from
them, .what an opportunity for a 'de-
feated Japan to recover as Hitler's
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war in, sin* W.der, we Cannot legYa
these Again Ventilations to' therch-
selves or rather to Japan,. but nentit
retain some militau control. no mat-
ter what self-goverranent we give
them in other respects. That la, we
must stay where we were in 1941, and
no doubt we shall do it. Incidentally
our retention. of bases, in, these areas
will limit the natural sluggishness of
great democratic nations in foreign.
affairs an dcompel us tes remain. alert
to danger end ready to do Something
about it.
In face of the uneasy new world
created by„the• airfleets, what can we
do to limit war? It has been said
that we might depend on an interna-
tional organization or axe internation-
al force for our security. But what
is everybody's business is nobody's
business and the existence of such in-
stitutions may well give us a false
sense of safety, people thinking, that
someone else is doing something
aput the danger. In any case the
great powers supply the steam behind
such institutions andnthey could act
more effectively if they did it direct-
ly instead of, in a roundabout way.
The nations who want to keep the
Peace mustband closely together and
be ready to use the might of the
strong arm against aggressors. Most
of .this might belongs to Ruezia, Great
Britain• and the U.S., and peace de-
pends:. on the willingnerni of these
three to co-operate to keep it. They
are in good circumstances to do so,
for the U.S. and Great Britain are in-
creasingly close together and Russia
is far enough away to have few ins
tereste conflict with ours.
For the maintenance of peace by
agreement among the great powers,
Great Britain has some special assets.
The world-wide British Empire pos-
sesses numerous key points and bases
and no aggressor can proceed far
without colliding with it. At the same
time these key points can serve to
hold off an aggressor and furnish the
facilities for stopping him before it
is too late. Such has been- the fun -
tion of Malta, Egypt, India and Aus-
tralia in this war and they have been
very useful to American forces. In
feet this chain of kep points is what
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tary strengths can he the
single tactor in limiting PArr,
partnership of the "EnglielisaPe
nations, therefore, lies ottr, '&0444
hope.
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A 1941 Apple
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Deichert,'Of t138.'
Blind Line, Hay Township, sent tO •
the Herald office a sample of a 1241
crop of apples. The apple which, is
-
quite small, looks _quite well and
healthy, and we are safe 10 Wing
that we never saw an apple inst ,that •
old, although the history of the apple '
dates back five thousand years ago 1a,
the Garden of Eden, but in the na-
tural term no one Lae any of those
which were consumed .by Adam and '
Eve, We de not know just how Mr.
and Mrs. Deichert kept this apple so
long; we do not think it was kept in
a frozen condition.—Zurich Herald.
THIS YEAR.
Start your chic kg
t1 fEitY
It's good business, this
year, to start- your chicks
earlier than ever. For
good BRAY Chicks, see
William Stapleton, Dublin,
-- or --
Alvin W. Kerslake, Hensel!
If we all cut out on
non- essenti I
call a day...
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We
HALF A MILLION
would make way for nearly ,
ADDITIONAL WAR CALLS,
War calls must come first . .
which means that we should reduce our non-essential
use of the telephone to the minimum. Present facilities
cannot he increased; your co-operation is needed if war'
calls are to go through promptly. 11. Please remember
that the wasteful use of telephone time can hold up
war business — and that every second you save counts.
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