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ITDMONTOK JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAT 4, Itw- By George Clark THE NEIGHBORS The Journal Letter Box petition that the War Veterans' Al. txat tov Eimtimtmt dlmtntal A SODTHAM NEWSPAPER Tubllsried dally except Sunday by the proprietor, the Southam Company. Limited, it Journal Building. 10009 101 Street. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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Daily by mall to U.S. $12.00 per year. Authorized aa aecond claaa mall, Post OHlce DeDartment, Ottawa. Dally averajre net paid circulation of The Edmonton Journal In April CI flAA ru in excess of 1 iwu Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations WEDNESDAY, MAY 4. 1949 5 Letters to the editor should be hrlff and deal with topics, of general Interest.

Tbey may published under a pseudonym but the writer must give his name end address as evidence of good faith. Unless ot an official character letters should be sent to this paper exclusively. No lottos can returned unless accompanied by stsmped, addressed envelopes. The Journal must be the Judge of whether letters should be published, In the public Interest. 54,000 Can't Be Wrong! Sir: Any person who insists on calling himself a "dog lover" (Steady, Stomach) as did British Columbian, Saturday's Journal, April 30, should be licensed along with his dog.

He tenderly speaks of the freedom necessary for "our dogs" to allow the keen enjoyment of sniffing all the wonderful and exciting smells about the neighborhood. He is quite right about their enjoyment. 1 have daily obrened them at it. It involves a business-like parade of dogs across our property, happily sniffing and scratching from shrub to shrub, flower-bed to flower-bed, tree to tree and on to the garbage cans for a passible snack. Evidently they are not too well fed at home.

I'm sure the rest of the citizens wouldn't object to the dogs knocking over and rooting through their cans if these intelligent animals would only think to straighten up again and put back the stuff they didn't want. British Columbian also suggests that If we insist upon being selfish and keeping all these fascinating smells and garbage to ourselves, we should somehow locate around $250. or so for materials and labor to erect a fence. A splendid Idea if he would contribute the money. One thing I notice about "dog lovers' (Hold on, Stomach) is their complete unselfishness in sharing their dogs.

They shoo them out early in the morning and let their neighbors have them the rest of the day. I can't help wondering, however, why they don't import as agreeable smells into their own yards to keep their pets entertained and so enjoy with them a closer companionship, get better acquainted with them, invite other dogs over, have parties for them on their own lawns. Surely 54,000 taxpayers can't be wrong for they obviously don't want around 7,000 dogs running in droves and sniffing, all over their lawns and gardens and garbage. If they did, they'd get dogs of their own. "Bylaw Lover'' 78 Avenue.

The Balance Sheet Sir: This is yet a further reply to your correspondent of April 27 1 wish yen'd make op your mind Junior. First yon wanted to get married this anmmer now you'd rather have a new motorcycle Trade Whatever may be the merits of Hon. C. D. Howe's proposals for reviving British-Canadian trade through Increased exports of colonial raw materials to this country and on this point a great deal more information is needed to form an opinion the reception his speech has aroused in Britain is highly significant.

The extraordinary "play" which almost all the London newspapers gave the speech is the best evidence of British public Interest in trade with Canada. During the last year, as Britain's purchases of Canadian goods dropped, and one commodity after another was barred altogether, the idea has spread in this country that the British were no longer concerned about trade with the dominion, and preferred to concentrate on markets and sources of supply in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. But the response to Mr. Howe's proposals indicates that this is not the case, and that the British people and -no doubt their officials as well are just as interested as those of Canada in getting 'back to normal trade relations. The present restrictions are clearly regarded as a temporary emergency measure rather than a permanent policy.

How to translate this feeling into an actual increase in trade and especially into Increased British exports to Canada-is perhaps the biggest economic problem now facing the governments of the two countries. Mr. Howe's journey to London and the scheduled visit of Harold Wilson, the president of the British Board of Trade, to Ottawa, reflect their attempts to solve It. It is to be hoped that they will find some formula soon for getting over the so-called "dollar otherwise the present unnatural pattern of trade may, without anyone Intending it, freeze into permanence. Too many who doubt an honest shout are ready to believe a sly whisper.

Reds And Peace Councils In a letter which appears on this page today, Dr. George Hunter, of the University staff, accuses us of "smearing" the Edmonton Peace Council by suggesting that it is under Communist influence. Dr. Hunter thus describes the organization, of which he is president: Let me say that the Edmonton Peace Council has no connection with the Labor-Progressive Party; that It is strictly a non-political organization whose main concern is to help defend the United Nations Charter. It Is no doubt perfectly true that no The Third Column Italy's 'Book Hospital' By Norah Pines ROME Two monks and a corps of "doctors" from Rome's Institute for Book Fathology are hard at work these days repairing hundreds of burned and damaced volumes of the famous library of the Monte Casslno monastery, which was destroyed by Nail and Allied explosives during the war in Italy.

Page upon page of the yellowing books are restored bv Ingenious means. The finest transparent silk is used to "solidify" brittle paper, while fine parchment fills In the broken edges of hand-illuminated texts. The work Is carried on under the banner of one of the few complete "book hospitals" in the world. As In a real clinic, the nature of the illness or accident Is first analyzed by the Institute restoration is planned along scientific lines, and the cure is finally completed. The art of book reoalr has always been highly developed in Italy because of the large number of old volumes handed down from generation to Generation.

Libraries, monasteries and private collections have unmatched wealth in ancient books whose preservation requires infinite skill and care. This work was done without coordination until ten years ago, when Prof. Alfonso Gallo induced the government to take a scientific view of the matter. With a few other enthusiasts, he created the Institute, which now also includes a museum of the history of writing. "Patients" come from all over the world.

Seventeenth-century German books with paper being slowly eaten away by corroding minerals have been repaired, together with medieval English documents and old Moorish Scriptures from Spain. One of the treasured pieces In the Institute's collection of salvaged documents is the sixth-century Code of the Emperor Justinian. A handwritten original parchment has been restored and preserved. In Its 1,500 years of life the parchment has grown yellow and the Inscription pale. Chemicals were used to restore the original color of the parchment, and the ink will be fixed so as not to disappear altogether.

The Institute Is equipped to reconstruct pages and bindings in Its paper and research laboratories, which can reproduce exactly the type of parchment and ink used in the original. Another task of the Institute Is continuing research on current book production problems, laboratory testing, and advice to the publishing industry. Insects are found to be a frequent cause of book damage. Some years ago an entire wing of the Vatican library was invaded by termites, which ate their way through many volumes. The Institute now has anti-termite devices for libraries, as well as other insect-control methods.

The Institute has gone to the aid of many scholars who found It impossible to read fading historical texts. Writing that had become too pale for human eyes is photographed with special lenses. (Copyright 1949, Overseas Newi Agency) Behind U.S. Carrier Decision By Joseph Alsop wholly natural effort to take over a non-naval mission to play a major offensive jart, in short, in a New Macdonald Hotel The architect's sketch of the new Mac-Donald hotel la startling at first sight. The sixteen storey ultra- modern structure dominates the scene in the picture, as It will that section of Jasper avenue when It Is translated Into steel and concrete.

The new wing, as the CNU. hotel official pointed out, will become the hotel and the present Macdonald will be the wing In reality. This is too bad. The Macdonald Is a beautiful building, and while It will still be beautiful when It becomes a mere It will be overshadowed by the (ar-from-beautiful slxteen-storey rectangular mass. However, none will quarrel with the.

decision of the CNH. and Its architects, for they, advance strong arguments based on financial, architectural and contructional reasons. What Edmonton needs is more hotel" accommodation, and fast. Probably it will be a couple of years anyway before the new Macdonald is a fact; and in the meantime the need of additional hotel bedrooms will become even more acute than It is today. new hotel will not only mean more accommodation for visitors, tourists and convention delegates, It will change the whole aspect of Jasper avenue at 100 street, not only physically, but in a business way.

Property east of the Jasper avenue extension of the hotel will become more valuable, and It would not be surprising to see some fine new commercial buildings under con-atruction in that area before the hotel Itself Is. open for business. A11 this will mean a big improvement In the physical appearance of that part of the city. And the open square in front of the hotel, with shrubs and a lawn, will add a touch of beauty to a section of the city that is sadly lacking in that respect at present. It will also set off the sixteen-s to rev "bedroom tower" as well as the graceful chateau lines of the Macdonald we know.

war with a non-naval, continental, land power, the Soviet Union. The carrier plan, essentially, was a plan for a whale to arm itself to attack an elephant In an ideal situation in which resources were unlimited, the arguments In favor of the carrier would certainly have outweighed the dis advantages which have been listed, But resources are not unlimited, even if we abandon our present dangerous system of business-as-usual. We cannot continue to use the last war planning process. Then, when there was a deep disagree ment on the correct solution of a given problem, both proposed solutions were tried, without serious at tempt to reach a compromise on a WASHINGTON Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson has been making the easy decisions so far. He has shifted offices.

He has abolished boards. He has put a burr under the tall of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to hasten them in their task of evolving a unified strategic concept. And now he has stopped work on the Navy's giant carrier. It may seem odd to call this last decision easy, when it has caused so much commotion. But a simple listing of the factors involved will show why the decision was simple to the point of being unavoidable.

At any rate, it was unavoidable if Johnson wished to live up to the rather idealized picture of go-getting public service which he has been painting of himself. Among the factors against the carrier, cost was most obvious. The price tag on the carrier itself was $150,000,000 to $200,000,000. The aircraft to fly from it had not been perfected, but were expected to cost a great many millions more. Then the vast, expensive vessel, with its valuable cargo, could not but be singularly vulnerable to air and submarine attack.

And this would create a need for a multifarious, staggeringly expensive supporting force of flak ships, smaller carriers to provide fighter protection, destroyer and other escort, etc. The over-all investment hi the carrier task force was estimated to run from one and a halt to two billion dollars. Yet the technical difficulties were such that the carrier's bombers were not expected to be able to land on her decks again after takeoff. Thus the whole huge armada would single solution. But that way of doing business is now too expensive.

This is the reason in turn for the Joint Chiefs of Staff's sweaty struggle to agree upon a unified lowanco regulations be so amended as to include Imperial veterans who saw service in any of the above noted theatres of war. We are asking, therefore, that all such Imperial veterans, or widow! of Imperial veterans, present themi selves at their local branch of ths Canadian Legion to complete the required forms. Those veterans ot widows who are not living in Ui vicinity of a Legion branch may obtain a form by applying to 10027 Jasper Edmonton. W. J.

Williams Executive-secretary Edmonton Dr. Hunter For Defence Sir: Your editorial of April 3 under the title, "Pravda's Frontrof Peace" is an attempt, by the morally: and intellectually indecent smear technique, to discredit various good things and good people. As tha Edmonton Peace Council is the main object of your unprovoked at-: tack I wish to expose some of its unreason, and unfairness. The first thing that you want your readers to believe is that because a U.S.S.R newspaper Pravda reports that some Canadians are struggling for peace and opposing the North Atlantic Pact, that therefore the Canadian Peace Movement is inspired and, as usual, directed from Moscow. Yet, If the Journal reports a fire from Red Deer, fair-minded people are not likely to ac-; cuse it of arson.

Now, your next point is that all this opposition to the Atlantic Pact comes from the Labor-Progressive Party, the Communists, of course; the old scare used by Ooebbels to. drive the German people into their mad attempt at world Let me say that the Edmonton Peace Council has no connection with the Labor Progressive that It is strictly a non-political organization whose main concern is to help defend the United Nations Charter. And so you say "the only evidence we have had here of the expanding front of the supporters for peace is provided by the activities of a mysterious 'Edmonton Peace Council'." Now, Mr. Editor, why mysterious? Just because you would make it so. FOr example, your reporter was present at the last meeting of the Council when the Atlantic Pact was discussed by two University professors, a prominent businessman, and a "working man," but your paper published no report of the meeting.

So you would make the Council mysterious: you would drop an iron curtain between it and your readers, though it seems rather strange that you can lift the big iron curtain when you like and get what you want out of Pravda, I would like to tell your readers all about the Edmonton Peace Council but I do not want to make this letter too long. I shall be very happy on your invitation to give you an article on the subject, so that all the mystery may be dispelled. Now your editorial continues about the Edmonton Peace Council; "This outfit has been distributing a few sleazy pamphlets" etc. There you insult an organization of citizens with an above-board and demo? cratlcally elected executive by maliciously terming it an And what do you mean by It is not in my big Funk and Wagnall My guess is that the word has no meaning and that it is thus irresponsibly used by you to suggest that the pamphlets are in some way bad. Nothing could be further from the Yes, our membership fee is one dollar.

You would imply that there is something wrong here too. But my impression is that a dollar doesn't go very far when paying for, space in your paper to advertise our meetings. George Hunter, president, Edmonton Peace Council. University Campus. Nuf Sed Sir: I am applying for a pen friend from age 17 to 20, hoping you will be able to get me one.

My height is feet 4 inches. I have brown hair and brown eyes. My age is 17 years, my interests are dancing, reading and sports. I have nothing more to say. Mary Crispin 8 Cleary St, Bootle, Liverpool 20, England.

Days Gone By From the Journal Files of Twenty five, Fifteen and Five Years Ago. MAY 4 Retail merchants ask city to abolish weekly half-holiday, prom- oslng to distribute half- Q24 holidays to their em-ployees throughout the week. Prairie fires are burning over large areas of Peace River country, and many farmers have lost buildings and quantities of grata. H. G.

British author, says in New York that a "war to end war" in 1940 is a cer- 934 tainty. City police will continue their drive against dogs running at strategic concept, of which the end of the giant carrier project may be called the first fruits. For Secretary who yearns so much for Canadian Johnson, the really difficult deci sions are. ahead, simply because this struggle toward a unified strategic concept must involve other, far Oddly enough, you rarely see a stump speaker slumped. official connection exists between the Labor- more painful steps.

Two chief issues are involved. First, is the quantity of U. S. carrier aviation out of balance with the navy's primary mission, which is to maintain control of the seas? Second, is the size of the U. S.

Mar ine Corps out of balance with the marines' mission, of making land Progressive party and the Edmonton Peace Council. It Is also true that the vast majority of the Council's members are not Communists. Nevertheless it can hardly be denied that Communists and Communist sympathizers are active in it. Evidence of this fact is found in the way the group came into existence. It was founded on February 22 -last, as a branch of trie national 'movement known as the Canadian Peace Congress.

The moving spirit of this latter organization is Dr. James G. Endicott of Toronto, who was ings and taking bridgeheads? Both carrier and marine forces are today on a scale conditioned by the Pact fic operations of the last war. But unless American Far Eastern policy Use Of The Lash From Saint John Telegraph-Journal Flogging is a violent treatment, but some cases must be so treated because they respond to nothing else. It Is far too valuable in exceptional cases' for it to be removed from the list of punishments available.

Our courts ars certainly not lavish in handing out sentences of the lash; perhaps they might be criticized for undue reluctance to order corporal punishment. Be that as it may, we can feel pretty Is downright suicidal, the VS. will have no Pacific problem in another war. And carriers and marines cannot be used against the Russian land mass as they were against also, Incidentally, the principal speaker at the meeting which set up the Edmonton council. 1 have been able to make only a single strike before returning to port, io diminishing the return on the investment.

Then, on a deeper level, there was the carrier's relationship to what the experts call the broader weapons system. What the carrier was designed to do is approximately what a B-38 can do already. It could hardly have been ready to do even this in less than five years. Meanwhile B-47's and other new bombers in the testing stage are already promising to render the B-36 obsolete. Thus the carrier would have been employed, at uneco confident that when flogging has been Dr.

Endicott may not be a "card-holding" added to any sentence, the circumstances have been carefully considered. Our penal system is in no danger of becoming too savage, and when it does show some sternness It should have public support. Communist party member, but in recent years he has emerged as perhaps Canada's best-known fellow-traveller, and an indefatigable salesman bf the party line in foreign policy. His latest public appearance Jaanese-held islands. Putting down Russian submarines will be the naval task.

There are other issues also. For example, are the bombardment-trained generals who now dominate the air force slighting tactical aviation, which the ground forces need, in favor of their beloved strategic aviation? Iri every one of these issues, violent prejudices and intense sentiments are involved. In each Independence and freedom from the Empire's oppression. I fail to see exactly how Canada can become any more Independent than she already is, unless we follow this desire to its logical conclusion and adopt a new language overnight. In her case for independence, Miss, Peterson made several somewhat remarkable statements.

She states that the Canadians feed the British, clothe them, arm them, fight for them and die for them. As regards the feeding and clothing, if this is the case, why has Britain been for tep long years on enforced rations and forced austerity? Why do they work long hours? And why have they troubled to treble the production of exports? Why so many British goods on the Canadian markets? Not by loans and gifts, but by the sweat of their brow, do they feed themselves. And Britons do an awful lot of fighting and dying for themselves. Twice in her letter. Miss Peterson mentions debts.

I presume by this she means debts forced by war and its aftermath. Strange, how, when the war is on, it is a case of sink or swim together, and yet when the war is over we always find a certain few who squeal to high heaven about the money they lent in that war. While on the subject of debts. Miss Peterson no doubt realises that there are two sides to every balance sheet. Instead of talking so much about the debts Britain owes to Canada, I suggest that she pause for a moment and consider the debt that Canada owes to Britain.

Remember from Britain she obtained a lot of things and I doubt whether she will find them on any balance sheet. Things which she may have used occasionally, such as the language, legal system, parliamentary system and numerous and perhaps somewhat Inadequate social reforms. Can you put a price on those? And what of the contributions Uritain has made to Canada and the world in every branch of science, medicine, engineering and culture? How shall this be assessed on our balance sheet? What of the thoosands of craftsmen Britain sent to Canada? No matter what motive, they came. Good Government was at a communist-sponsored "woria Peace Conference" in Paris, where he won Viscount John Morley at Pittsburgh, in nomic expense, to do the same Job other new projected weapons will be capable of performing far better. But even this was not decisive.

If you seek the real meaning of most brief notoriety by falsely alleging that northern Canada was being prepared as a base for atomic bomb attacks on the Soviet case, the arguments against 'a clean-cut decision are much stronger than in the case of the giant carrier. (Copyright 1949. New York Eerald-Trlbune Inc.) modern, disparagement of popular parliamentary government, it is no more than this, that no politics will suffice of them Union. The final argument against the giant carrier was that it represented the navy's rather desperate, selves to make a nation's soul. What could Land Reform In A Chinese County Workers In Oil Fields iThe dominion government has been wise In ordering an investigation into labor conditions in the Edmonton, oilfields, following complaints by the Trades and Labor Council and the Canadian Legion I that an undue proportion of American labor was being employed in drilling opera- tlons.

The public will want to know what the facts are. The problem of apportioning jobs be-, tween Canadians and outsiders in. the oil industry la not an easy one. An unusually large proportion of the labor force required consists of technicians and specialized i "workmen of various kinds. Men of this type are certainly not available In Canada in sufficient numbers' to handle the tremendous expansion of recent years, and it is no doubt necessary to import them from the United States.

On the other hand, there is also much work of a less specialized nature around the wells and pipelines, and we can see no reason why Canadians should not have the preference for these Jobs. If the labor department's investigation jhows that an undue proportion of Ameri-; cans are being employed, the responsibility for correcting the situation will rest with the dominion government. It has ample powers to deal with the matter; the Alien Labor Act forbids the importation of al- most all types of contract labor into Can- ada, and if it were strictly enforced it I would probably reduce the flow of Ameri-1 can workers to the Alberta oilfields to a mere trickle. Such drastic measures, however, would 'do more harm than good. What is needed 5 is policy which will secure the maximum amount of employment for Canadians in I' the oilfields without hampering the development of this vital Industry.

Such a policy will not be easy to work out. I "Life Span Shows Marked Increase" despite the best efforts of motorists. Prices Probe Report We have no idea how many of the candidates who will be seeking the support of the electors they are all consumers, too will take the trouble to read the of the Royal Commission on Prices, will even mention it in their campaign' talks. They should, and the consumers they are the voters, too should ask them If they have be more true? Who says it will? But we may depend upon it that the soul will be best kept alive in a nation where there Is the highest proportion of thosa who, in the phrase of an old worthy of the seventeenth By Robert Martin century, think it a part of a man's religion to see to it that his country be well gov SHANGHAI The Communists mav have trou erned. ble convertin the 120.000 peasants of Lungyen hsien (county) on China's southeast coast, into supporting them.

One Hundred Years Ago A land-reform oroiect started Just The suspicions aroused by this sponsorship are naturally increased by the curious tendency of active Labor-Progressive party members to appear in key positions on the various peace councils which have mushroomed across the dominion. But an even surer proof of Communist control behind the scenes lies in the kind of propaganda the Edmonton Peace Council has been putting out. It attacks the Atlantic Pact and the other measures adopted by the western nations to halt Soviet aggression, and it accuses the Canadian government of plotting aggressive war against the U.S.S.R. This is an attitude taken by no other Canadian party except the Labor-Progressive, and it follows exactly the line laid down for Communist parties throughout the world. With all this evidence of Communist influence, the members of the Edmonton Peace Council must expect their movement to be regarded with deep suspicion by their fellow-citizens.

From The Times of London, May 4, J849 Canada was growing up. The Dominion five years ago has brought Lung-yen a degree of prosperity previously unknown. Communists operating not far awav in Kwanetung have was in distant. view. We have spoken from time to time says distributed propaganda posters op posing this program.

But tne communists have no followers in Lung- They learned their trades in Brit yen. a leading article! on the duties, the responsibilities, and the glories of colonization. We have given expression to that which within late years has giown Into an element of popular faith and a' motive of public exertion the claim which the colonies have on England: the Inheritance which England has in her colonies. We have spoken The program demonstrates now ain and Canada derived the benefit of them. Shall we put that on an enlightened government can successfully oppose Communism in our balance sheet? Alberta is a farming province and who is the Asia if it vigorously attacks the twin problems of hunger and distress, and fills the.

peasant craving Alberta farmers' biggest customer? Talk to some of the farmers, and they may suggest an entry under of the high destiny reserved for her when, for land. the heading of good will. And what Lungyen is a case history. In would have happened if all the 1929 the Communists under Mao people of ths British Isles had stayed in their own Islands? Would in remote regions, in forests now trackless, and prairies as yet unpeopled, the language of Chaucer and Shakespeare shall be spoken, the laws of Alfred and Edward studied, and the constitution of William revered by independent communities of Saxon lineage and mind. Tse-tung (now China's No.

1 Com gated Lungyen recently reported these results: Living standards had increased 20 percent. The hsien is self-sufficient in food for the first time, the farmers wear new and modern clothing, and many have built new houses and repaired old ones. Wheat production has increased 22 percent, and in many areas two rice crops are harvested instead of one. Farmers have more capital to invest in water buffaloes (17 percent increase in five years) and farm Implements (11 to 16 percent increase) Forty-three percent of all court cases formerly involved land disputes. This has been reduced to eight percent.

Both middle and primary schools have expanded. There are no beggars, and robbery is rare. Land reform has not solved all of Lungyen's The peasants, for instance, still need credit to purchase new tools and fertilizer or to pay unexpected expenses. Formerly they mortgaged their land to meet these expenses, and often lost it. Now the law forbids them to use land as security, and rural credit is virtually frozen.

The "peasants, now land owners, are finding other burdens heavy. Formerly landlords paid to maintain irrigation facilities; the peasants must finance this now. In one village, 20 percent of their Income went for repair of dikes. The peasants also have difficulty paying taxes, formerly assessed against the landlords. And there is always the problem of fragmentation, the splitting up of property into uneconomic units when children inherit holdings.

The Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, a specialized branch of ECA, has decided to subsidize agrarian work in Lungyen and nearby hsiens. "Lungyen is the only place south there have boen a Canada or an America? And would they have Spring gardening note: Householders who alloio dogs to run at large are being hc.uhd into court; 43 were fined the other day and more are being summoned! munist) occupied Lungyen and most of the four surrounding hsiens. been in the positions they are today? Consider that question and let us They killed or drove into exile an estimated 60,000 people from Lungyen alone. Many landlords were ex Hitherto we have spoken of this as a make another entry in our balance sheet. distinct and prospective event.

We may now speak of it as already existing. It may yet be reserved for this generation ecutes, the Communists distributed a large share of the land among large, despite recent ruling in police court that the bylaw is ultra vires. With announcement from Victoria that army huts are being made available to homeless 1944 citizens, Edmonton's housing officials art seeking "immediate action" on housing in the city. Associated Temperance Forces of Alberta submit brief to Gerhart committee of legislature, investigating liquor situation in province, asking more strict controls over liquor. "Major disaster for Japs in Burma predicted by high Allied officers.

their own people, and gave the rest to see in far-off lands a great people gov Y.W.C.A.'s 'Cavalcade' Each year at this time the Y.W.C.A. presents a public demonstration of its to non-Communist peasants. erned by English institutions with English In 1932 the non-Communist but leftist 19th Route Army ousted the Communists and again redistributed classes In interpretive- dancing and "keep forms and in the spirit of English loyalty. At this very moment that which has been attempted nowhere else Is attempted with fit" exercises. Formerly the annual displays have been put on in the Y.W.

gymnasium, but it has proved far too small to hold the hundreds who have wished to attend So Do not let us be like a certain farmer who had a tree in one of his fields that had been growing there for centuries. He was very proud of that tree. He would call it his tree. He would never for one moment consider who or what first planted the seed. Miss Peterson mentions the Empire's oppression.

This probably explains why so many people are queuelng up to enter the. Empire. They love that oppression! D. D. 93 Street.

Imperial Veterans Sir: At the present' time the Dominion Command of the Canadian Legion, B.E.S.L., Js asking all Legion branches to ascertain the number of Imperial veterans In each com- read it and what they think of It. This, some of the candidates will say, is putting them on the spot at a time when they will hardly have time to read their own speeches, let alone the 650 pages of the three-volume report, which has just been published by the King's Printer at Ottawa. It can be had for two dollars, postage free. i The, "press release" accompanying the Report acquired by The Journal notes that Volume I is a mere summary of Volumes II and in. It adds that "the reader should not form definite and critical conclusions concerning the analysis from a perusal of the summary (Volume I), but should refer to: the more detailed and definite analysis which forms Volume II and Volume III This pitfall we have avoided up to the moment? not having read the second and third volumes', we have formed no critical-and definite conclusions on the commission's findings.

But that should not deter men and women offering themselves for the high responsibilities of parliament tram walJa ail thres volumes! the land, treating landlords and peasants alike. Land was allocated according to the number in the family. Three years later Central Government troops drove out the 19th Route Army. Land was restored to those who owned it prior to the Communist occupation in 1929. These changes created innumerable legal conflicts.

A liberal magistrate was appointed in 1943 to straighten out the tangle. He ruled that land could be owned only by those who tilled it, although exception was made for widows or old people who had no other source of income. The government compensated landlords for their property, and then distributed the land according to family needs. Regulations provided that land could be only to tillers, and ceiling was established on the amount any tiller Now You See Him Kingston Whig-Standard A physicist is reported to have invented a device that measures time in billionths of seconds. Now well be able to find out exactly how long it takes a youngster to disappear when a parent wants him for something.

Bible Message (From the Authorize Version) For ye were sometimes darkness, but now ars ye light in tha Lord: walk as children of liiht boldness, and we may venture to predict, with success, in the great and growing province of Canada. For the first time in the history of colonies a system of Parliamentary government 13 essayed, and the consequences of such a government confronted. The relation of Lord Elgin and the Canadian Parliament is precisely that of an English Sovereign and an English Parliament in critical times. IResponslble government had been granted In 1841 after the legislative union of Upper and Lower Canada. Its real test was yet to come.

The Canadian Parliament was faced at the outset with the fact that while the 650,000 British inhabitants were divided on English party lines, the 750,000 French of Lower Canada were united by race, religion, and local Interests, and able to hold the balance. Statesmanship was compelled to face the growing dangers of this situation by the creation of the' Dominion of Canada In 1867. this year, ample accommodation has been secured, and the show will be staged in the Pavilion at the Fair Grounds next Friday evening, May 6. The program has been entitled "Cavalcade of the It Includes animal characterizations, folk and tap tumbling, keep-fit exercises and acrobatics. More than 300 will take part, ranging in age from three to sixty! The Y.W.

and the thousand and more students who attend its classes during the winter months are hoping they will play hosts to a packed house. They thorouchly deserve the satisfaction of seeing the "standing room only" sign, hung out before the opening number starts the evening's entertainment on its colorful way. munity, who have resided in this of the Yangtze River where atrrarlan i reform measures have been success-, fully carried out." Dr. Chiang Mon-; lin, chairman of the JCRR, said in country for twenty years and who served in a of actual war, e.g. the Boxer Rebellion, Chitral Expedition, Errypi, (Khartoum, India (Northwest Rebellion), South African War, World War or other Wherefore he salth, Awake thou announcement cf tht grant.

(Copyright. 1949, Overseas News Agency) Cuba's 1948 bean production was about 100,000,000 pounds, largest since pre-war. could own. actual operations. This Information is necessary as the Dominion Command of the Canadian Legion 1 again pressing our An Economic; Co-operation Ad tnai sieepost, and arise from the deed, and Christ hall ftve the light.

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