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The Seaforth News, 1943-02-25, Page 6WRITTEN SPECIAL -Y FOR THE W5EKLY NEWSPAPERS iF CANADA- 4JIM GREENBL'A1, Editor of the SUN swpFT eeRRENT SASKATCHEWAN: TIUE $EAFORT1i NEW$ mines or 780 lbs of high explosive or enough to mine 780 tons of ore?" 1 had to admit ignorance. You who have sons depending on this ,(which depends on you)—are you interest- ed? rust imagine the ramifications of this administration, especially since Japan plugged holes in the Pacific; conserving, inducing and co=ordinat- ing our vital vegetable, animal and fish oils for food and industrial pur- poses, Le„ vitamin oils, lard, short- ening, points, inks, shellac, waxes, The author of this series, Jim (what ap=pears to me to be) sincerity starches, .glues, soaps, naval stores Greenblat, is the Editor of The Sun, of purpose, let the chips fall where I()-•esins, turps, pine oils). As for nut - the thriving weekly newspaper pub- . they may, i rition; how could you all exist with lished in Swift Current, Sask. He is 1 propose this series of articles to'out a proper proportion of oils and a native of Winkler, Man., and at- be just a plain, unvarnished` telling tats in your diet? Mom, isn't it just tended public and high schools in of what I saw' in Ottawa, Montreal Plain realism? Winnipeg. He moved to Swift Cur- and Toronto. I would like to be able Doesn't it make you think—as it rent 33 years ago, and studied law to tell you in the same way your, did me—to hear that we depend so until the outbreak of the first. Great own editor does when he's on the much on it, in our shaving;' butter War. He then served in the Caned- beam about something; I want to which is 80 per cent fat, our toast' in Ma Army from 1915 to 1919, and tell what thinks the head of the its shortening,` our clothes and shoes was wounded in France. He has whole outfit, Chairman of the Board, which get treatment from oils or der - been in the weekly newspaper busi- Donald Gordon; that big, Clark Scots- ivatives; the chair you sit in, the lin- iness since 1923, and is a past presi- man who dynamically leads this or- oleum you walk on. Excluding butter dent of the Saskatchewan division of ganization and who, by the way, we normally. consume 450 million lb. the Canadian Weekly Newspapers might look like the hardware man or of fats yearly in Canada, 200 of Association, the blacksmith in your town. He which, or 45'per cent., had to be im At home, he writes a sprightly talked to me as if I, myself, meant Ported, originating largely in the column, for the Sun, called "Swift something in this world. That to Far East• That source went out with Current Through the Looking me; , was the clue why even stenog- Pearl Harbor; your boy guarding Glass", in which he has developed raphers keep the midnight oil burn- convoys knows that even India and the highly readable and inimitable ing in this organization—and I do West Africa are getting tougher to style that he brings to thsi series' mean to work, from Ottawa. I Then take Mreach. Mrs. Phyllis G. Turner, Heavy demands for the stout - Before leaving Ottawa, he left one administrator for Oils and Fats for hearted but hungry 'Russians, for postscript on a brief bit of bio- Canada and a member of the United Britain, for ourselves .must be met. graph,. It read: i ''Mations Committee ittee on these vital on this cdntinent, .in only one way: research economist of the Tariff saving in consumption. Mrs. Turner. LOOKING INSIDE THE ENGINE , Board; a strikingly beautiful woman sits on the United Nations Council Call me lucky or not, but I'm just doing a tremendously big 'job in of United States, United Kingdom, an ordinary weekly newspaper edi-' something you'll be intensely inter- Canada, New Zealand, South Africa tor who was invited to come down to ested to hear about later if you stick and Australia which meets in Wash - Ottawa, that daffy but pulsating, with me long enough in this series. ington and even Canada's production throbbing with energy warheart of a Then there's Kenneth W. Taylor is pooled, out of which we get only nation which is such a staunch and I whom I talked with, Secretary of edible and inedible requirements on ••P.S.: Don't like Toronto!" commodities She's a former chief increased hemisphere production, energetic partner of the battling United Nations. I was asked to write a series of articles for home con - the Board, a McMaster man, an ee- a strictly controlled basis. onomist of standing, who certainly ' I know you're interested in how knows what it is all about. His type they intend meeting this situation. sumption—that is, for the plain, of person (like the others) doesn't We get linseed oil from flax; well, honest -to -God folk in the towns and have to fiddle with politics. And we. flaxseed production, it is hoped will on the farms who constitute the men readers will surely be interest- be stepped up to at least 20 million readers of Canadian weekly news- papers. I didn't get any salary for coining down here, but they did pay my ex- penses. I felt somewhat like your own member of Parliament, eatin' on the train, having the odd finger: bowl and pretending I was used to it and having the bell hops "sir" me to death You know, as well as Ido, ed in what Byrhe Hope Sanders told bushels this year comparted to' 6% me. She's better known as Editor of in 1941; there will be an expansion Chatelaine and now heads Consum- of soya bean crops, sunflower and ers branch division, with its farflung rapeseed. chain of "watching" local commit- "Why control fats when the U.S. tees. Behind her discerning, intellig- increased its production two billion ent eyes you could visualize her as a pounds last year?" I asked Mrs. Tur- young mom in the kitchen slicing ner to show that I read Time and the around the pie dough. Ottawa papers. With that restful Are you interested in hoarding, smile she asked me, "Did you know that weekly paper editors at home etc.- You'd be surprised what I learn- that the U.S. consumed 11 billion are merely suffered. But with the ed from Fred A. McGregor, adminis- lbs. last year; that a billion was cut finish of these articles, like R. B. trator of the Enforcement division, off from the Far East, and further - Bennett used to say before they You'd take him for your own church more what assurance have any of us stuck him in the British hall of minister. He doesn't look like Himnt- that this year's crops will give high fame, "He had his day and ceased to ler and hates anyone who gets tough yields as last?" Could you answer be." !but he's sure a firm guy. His division that smartly, even if you are a stove I came to have a personal, unham- understandably has a big job, and • leaguer? pered, uncajoled, unpoliticked look he's concerned mainly with the fel- Sure, you've got a baby around at the Wartime Prices and Trade I low who wants to gyp you and I. the house. Prior to the war 75 per Board and its mechanists; what i Then there's Dr. G. E. Britnell, a cent of cod liver oil was imported, makes the wheels go 'round. How it Saskatchewan university man, eeon- mostly from Britain, Norway and affects the daily life, the routine and omic adviser to the Foods Adminis- Newfoundland. The fishing compan- economies of you and I. I don't owe tration. Why that man's ead is al- les on our Atlantic coast wasted a cent to anyone in Ottawa from; ways full of butter, eggs, hogs, Donald Gordon clown, in politics or cheese, beef and milk as Canada's ration cards, so I feel free to give farms collectively are. He sees the you my own impressions, unbiased, I picture more than he does statistics. of this tremendously vital thing 1 More about that later, too. which is ordering our very lives, try- I Imagine rationing millions of ing to keep a mile ahead of the evils people, cards and stuff. That would of deflation after the war. make your head swim at Montreal, I wasn't asked to pull punches. That shows I don't look like a poli- tician. I was given carte blanche to look inside the engine, to ask ques- tions, to interview the really big names who handle Canada's great wartime economy, and that in itself was a thrill. An dhere, take my word for it, you'd be impressed like I was. From butter rationing to subsidies the men doing the job are in my op- inion sincere, patriotic, hard work- ing and don't let anyone guff you about politics and bureaucracy. 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 i na war which is bringing new and ever increasing, intricate problems affecting our very lives. Just remember when you shake your head wisely at your nei- ghber and say something about "them, guys at Ottawa", that one time you left the barn door open, bossy wandered out into the blizzard and you lost yourself a hundred. bucks or so, Believe mei if you and I are to continue eating the nutritive foods necessary 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 receiv- ing 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 ef- forts of his toil while this war lasts --without any too explosive disrup- tion—it will be because this organiz- ation thinks, acts and continues in its and I'll try to explain later, logically, how L. B. Ilnwin, a C.P.R. vice pres- ident, and his folks go about it. And what 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 great- est of agricultural eountries? There were many others. I've got a lot of stuff filed away in my mind, but it's got to be boiled down. 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. Oils and Fats—Consumers Branch It wasn't Mrs. Phyllis Turner's good looks that made me deal with Oils and Fats in this article, but its tremendous importance emphasized by the fact that despite Goebbel's propaganda of synthetic procurement in .Germany, she declares that is mostly bunk. The supply both here and there must depend on agricul- ture, whaling and fishing, Germany's economic fat plan was the original basis for their universal system of a state-controlled agriculture, industry and commerce. Recovery of waste and garbage fats in the households there is mandatory. Think that over, housewives of Canada, when they "appeal" to you to avoid unnecessary usage and waste of oils and fats. The picture is so simple, folks. Fats and vegetable oils are our only source of glycerine for explosives, medieines, lotions, ,etc.—cigarettes when available. The average yield from fats is 10 to 12 per cent "Do you know," Mrs. Turner flung at me in trip-hammer succession, "that one ounce of dripping per person per week would give us 36 million lbs: a year? That 10 lbs. of rendered fats fires 49 anti-aircraft shells? That 100 lbe. of glyeerine makes 180 tank THURSDAY, I=EBR JARY 28, 1943 Members of the crew of a Royal Canadian Air Force bomber from an East Coast squadron who are credited with a successful attack on a Nazi U-boat in the North Atlantic. Left to right they are Pilot Officer J. Leigh, Toronto, the second pilot; Flying Officer R, B, Martin, Toronto, navigator Flying Officer D. F. Raymes, Tor- onto, captain; and Pilot Officer J. 9, Johnston, Ottawa, wireless -operator - air -gunner. Two other wireless operator - air gunners, Sergeants J.. J. Gilfillan and P• H. Beebe, participated in the attack but were not present when the photograph was taken. much of ,the precious vitamin con- tent for tanning, etc., feeding live- stock and poultry. Do you know that since 1941 we now have five plants of our own producing refined medic- inal cod liver oil and that we will be in a position to supply our own needs, the U.S.A., South America, Australia and China? That industry is a war baby and, believe me, a pip- pin. Vitamin feeding oils for veter- inary purposes will now be processed from the lowliest of British Colum- bia fish; and the despised dogfish from out there now produces Vitam- in A oil, rich and fortifying to mar- garine and for night fliers, and is al- ready being shipped to the British Ministry of Food. Yes, I got enough of the story to know that a combination of science, management and invention has put us on the threshold of a period when Canadian agricultural production will take its rightful place in Canad- ian industry. That's where you . and I are interested. Through effolts of this division, linseed oil is now being processed to replace drying oils hitherto obtained from China; soya beans will probably be used in "nylon" type artificial silk; wheat will be a source of starch and sodium glutenate, the latter pre- viously exported from Japan and used for meaty flavor in concentrat- ed soups and beverages. "Keep the fat out of the fire" was the administrator's appeal to women of Canada. It means oil for marine' engines, brake fluid for tanks and trucks, the life of tinplate and gly- cerine, to mention a few. But I must hurry to to Byrne Sanders, head of Consumers Division which is giving the Canadian consum- er a voice and has 8,000 women ac- ross the country doing active volun- tary service, co-operatingin their own interest, and trying hard to make for a better understanding bet- ween the consumer and retailer. "The women are doing a grand job," she said and flashed a tooth- some, sincere smile which said, "I mean it." "Our task is to channel their difficulties and complaints to - Wards a head and then we can go at the problems again." She admitted women are prone to criticize. i(Boy, she ought to hear the men in a smok- ing compartment.) Her division is trying so hard to get closer to women everywhere be- cause their whole job so closely af- fects the household. B. H. Sanders is practical because she said, "The war hasn't started to hurt us yet. It like- ly will." Price checking is one of the big jobs of the division, but she feels in this that honest retailers deserve protection from those who might not be. She wants women to co-operate. with her. These liaison officers in all towns are the link to do it. - "The Consumers Board is set up to represent all you people," and here we quote her exact expressieit which reflects the energy and deter- mination of this woman, "So for Pete's sake use it. If anything is wrong send it to your nearest com- mittee." I went out past a battery of fe- male operated typewriters in high gear. I thought if Mom can run the household ou. Dad's budget, a woman can run the Consumers division mighty effectively with the help of other women across Canada. AY/ vvu..'.,ros„a'2°K Foster Hewitt, dean of Canadian hockey commentators, keeps a sharp eye on the play* below from his gon- dola far above the ice. ouster eck � d0 1 We are Selling. Quality Books( Books are Well Made, Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. 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