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Other Views TheOttawaJournal i ihJeurnrt Publish Qmpany Ottawa. Limited. St. Laurent Wins Support But With Many fButs' the legislation which thrusts almost the whole cost upon municipalities (meaning the owners of real estate) of maintaining neglected children ought to be reconsidered and the scheme adjusted to modern conditions and expenditures, The province, with large revenues and a broadfleld of taxation, should be paying at least one-half Children's Aid Society costs. MAY 3, 1948.

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Overlapping of 'Drives'. Low said jvv wu am, gu uiurenii SECOND CHANCE. Kingston Whig-Standard. it murderers' are merely Imprisoned for life, they may escape to murder again. Criminologists assure us that the second murder is much easier than the first and we imagine this would be especially true when the murderer knew that the worst that could happen to him would be re-Imprisonmentj for life.

TAXES AND WORK. Toronto Financial Post The average person does not relish the idea of working hard for money he Is not going to be allowed to spend. Idealists may argue this is a selfish way to look at it but they must also admit that it is the; way human nature There are literally thousands of able-bodied, normally ambitious citizens who today are not working as hard as; they could work, are not producing as much food and other goods as they could produce, simply because high taxes have removed the chief incentive to work; harder. These people have I seen the Government take 40 or more percent of their total earnings over a certain figure. At the same time they feel that Ottawa has made no real effort to curb its own inflationary Instead of working harder they have decided to go fishing.

That may be a good thing for their own health but it is not a good thing for the country generally, and especially for a young country like Canada where there gECAUSE the Canadian government's foreign policy boils down to "peace on earth and keep an eye on Russia" there was no vote-counting opposition to Mr. St. Laurent's announcements of last week. You can't oppose peace on earth, nor. even alert vigilance towards the Soviet, But because' the essentials of government policy, were approved didn't mean the administration got away without criticism.

Opposition speakers saw many things they might have done differently, foresaw other things they hope will be done differently. A summary of the criticism follows. JOHN T. HACKETT, for the felt Canada was after all a minor if not altogether humble nation and it was well we should occasionally be reminded of our relative insignificance so 1 that we would guard against championing causes or policies we were not prepared to backup. It seemed to Mr.

Hackett that at UN Canada had displayed enthusiasm more indicative of youth and good-will than of mature experience. He had a hunch Canada had pushed the Palestine partition plan without seeing where it would land and he recalled declarations on foreign policy had made it all too clear that we have not "even caught hold of the tall of that so-called brave new Mr. Low was all for action against Russia "to provide a preponderance of united economic, moral and material But Communism was only! one enemy. There was another force "a group of men, some three or four hundred, most of them internationalists, who control vast Sources of wealth. By means of alliances, interlocking directorates and machinations of one kind or another they are fast gaining control of the money of the Mr.

Low said these money-seekers represented "a -tyrannical force just as dangerous and as anti-social as Communiim. Its tools are imperialism in one1 form or another, centralization, litter-national cartels They are the only beneficiaries of The Credit speaker was hot happy, about the influence of the United States in foreign affairs, "a rank Canada should be wary being led by these amateurs down foreign policy paths they knew little about. UN depressed him with its display of ill temper and lack of humor and he feared that Australia's Dr. Evatt was right when he said "there is a danger At the annual meeting of' Ottawa Community Chests note was taken of the overlapping of campaigns for the raising of funds for charities and benevolences. It is problem to which Tht Joctlnal called attention some time The Community Chests system, was.

devised to end this sort of thing, to concentrate many appeals for funds into one appeal. Within the membership of its participating agencies it has succeeded, but there iy growing up outside it a new crop of organizationswhich the people for their fundsand at one period in March, the Chests meeting was told, nine cam- "paigns were beingconducted in Ottawa. It is a mistake to think of these times as lush times when everybody's pqcket is full of money as his heart is" full of generosity. Wages arid salaries are high, but so are taxes and. the cost of everything we buy, ancMhe dornest tic budget is by no means free of problems, v-Soi for.

most people, a contribution to. even a deserving charity is something Z. that requires planning and consideration. Com-munity Chests and the Red Cross are two admitted by everybody to be necessary.X Beyond these two the claims of an appealing organiza-. lion have to be provedi-and if there are too many and overlapping as they have in recent the tendency of the average man is to say he can't give money to all, it's difficult to choose among them, and so he will Snot -give to any.

I y- In some Vnited States cities the public have become so Hnnatient with too-numerous cam- paigns for. funds that they have unofficial "Let Cs Alone Weeks. That is a sign of which philanthropic agencies, if they are wiserIll "take heed. Side Lights Wasted Water. Lethbridge Herald.

There will be millions of dollars of damage in this Spring's floods in the Prairie Provinces. The money lost would go a long way to build the dams needed to put the water in the right place-in reservoirs for beneficial use later. Especially in Saskatchewan it seems a shame to see so much water, going to waste. Passport Problems. Harold Nlcolson in London Spectator.

1 once spent two days in an attempt to render into language which could be understood by a widow in Chester the regulations governing an application for a passport My draft was written in companionable words and under such soothing headings as "What do I do first?" "What is the next thing I have to do?" and so on. When on the following Tuesday I presented my draft to the officials at the Passport Office they read it through with friendly contempt. "But they said, "that your widow in sleepy Chester was born in an Argentine ship when her mother was on the way from Bahia Blanca to Porto Allegre?" I had no answer to this question. -British Incomes. London Daily Mail.

Britain has fewer millionaires than, before the war. 'But more people- than ever have incomes of between 2,000 and 20,000 a year. Figures just issued by the Inland u'e Commissioners show, that there are now 109,336 people in Great Britain with incomes of from 2,000 to 3,000 a year. In 1941 the total was 85,414. Those between 3,000 and 20,000 a year have risen from 23,942 to 25,259.

Above that level there is a drop. Incomes from 20,000 upwards have fallen from 1,875 to 1,720. And there are only 35 people with incomes' of over 100,000 a year, compared with 77 in 1941. There are now' 136,363 surtax Last Time Churchill Saw Ribbentrop. I There are fascinating touches of drama in LWDfSTOW Churchill's memoirs, of which ex-j tracts are being printed currently in Life magazine and which are to be published in book form next month.

Ribbentrop had been German ambassador in Britain, and oft quitting that post to become Hitler's -foreign secretary Prime Minister Chamberlain gave a luncheon in his honor at No. 10 Downing Street Mr. Churchill, not then in office, and his wife were invited. Half way through-the meal a Foreign Office messenger entered with a letter for Sir Alexander Cadogan, another guest. Cadogan read it, took it to Mr.

Chamberlain, who read it and seemed -disturbed. Soon Mrs Chamberlain suggested that all the company have coffee in the drawing room, and it was clear to Mr. Churchill that Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain wanted tfieir guests to leave.

But Hibbentrop and wife were taking no hints, and stayed on even' after the Prime Minister finally said he had urgent business and left the room. The message was to the effect that Hitler had invaded Austria ihd his troops were; near-ing Vienna. Mr. Churchill had no (loubt that Ribbentrop knew well what the luncheon letter was about. The incident typical of Nazi manners and Ribbentrop's own crudeness, reminds one of the Sunday a few years later when Japan treacherously entered the war: A high-ranking envoy from Tokyo was in" Washington, actively conferring, with the United States government on a peace formula, when without any warning or declaration of war the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

And the night before in Ottawa the Japanese ambassador had given a big dinner partyhis guests including many Ottawa people of standing this at a time when the Japanese fleet was approaching Hawaii. Incidentally Mr. Churchill never saw" Ribbentrop again. A Lesson for All Police. The Toronto Police Commission has dismissed three constables two detectives and a so much work to be done.

that UN is becoming all harm CM and no horse regret Canada's abandonment of sanctions against Italy back at Geneva. "In matters of interna Letters To The Editors tional relations the responsibility for one actions is very great indeed." Mr. Hackett asked if enough thought had been given to Can ada's ability to carry out Mr. St. Laurent's policies.

"In the first place we should have armaments. in the second we should have Above iU, we should be While the. Budget. Waits. Tinance Minister Abbott it advertised to jtpeak in the Ontario South Federal byelectlon.

Meanwhile Parliament and the country con-'- tinue to wait, for Mr. Abbott's budget Mr. Bkoocb Claxto.it took time out from his defence! job some days" ago to tell us, that the jeason tfee Government can't get; things done in Parliament is that the Opposition is too 'frivolous." Has this -frivojity of the Opposition anything to do with Mr. Abbott's; delay in bringing the budget? Year after year this thing goes on, with, the budget delayed long after the end of the fiscal yearand business and the country left in doubt over what is coming, unanimous in our attitude towards peace and war." A great many gobd Canadians did not believe Canada was in THE GKAU DOCTRINE. Sirs: The Cuban Legation presents its compliments to The Journal and has the honor to convey the enclosed note on the Grau doctrine against economic aggression which was approved by the Ninth Pan-American Conference.

X- It would be very much appreciated to have the said note published. LEGACION DE CUBA. Ottawa, April 29, 1948. The Grau doctrine against economic aggression Inspired by Dr. Ramon Grau San President of the Cuban Republic, has been definitely approved by the Ninth Pan-American Conference in Bogota, Colombia, and incorporated to Article 14 of the Pact uniformed man for assaulting a prisoner who had.

been taken to a police station on a charge of armed robbery. A divisional inspector who payers in the over 2,000 class. had no hand in the affair was suspended for or over what must be planned for. Britain's budget, was brought down weeks, not reporting it to a superior officer when it came to his knowledge. The beaten man, whose story was accepted Three Ages Of Gold In History Br C.

SWwo ta CaaaaJaB Miniaf Jnraal. JN a broad way, history of th association ot gold and mankind may be divided into, three main phases, or age. i The first of these, and by far the longest is what we will call the "Age of which began when the human race was very young, and continued for many thousands'- of years up to around 600 BC. -During this period gold had no use except as sin ornament and for the display ot power. It gravitated to centres of power and there became hoarded or frozen in ornamentation and decoration in palaces and temples and the haunts of the kings and priests.

yHE second period might be called the "Age of -Metallic" which began about 800 BC and continued up to around 1918, reaching its full development in the hundred years from 1818. During this time gold was still used' for ornamentation, but it had become 4 definite Index of value and it circulated freely. This period extends up to our, own days and times, and jnainy of us can easily remember "the days when gold was in common circulation. The third period started after World War I. For want of a better name, I am going to call It the "Static and we are stUi in it.

i LL gold in the early days Was, of course, placer gold. Men did not mine and smell the metal until thousands of years later when it had taken a very definite place In the affairs of the world. Neolithic man had to be content with the nuggets he picked up in the beds of the streams along which he fished or hunted; but there is no doubt he placed very- distinct value upon it for it has been found with bone ornaments and amber in buried human remains dating back probably 10,000 years. There is no doubt that the metal had also a universal appeal, because ornaments fashioned by prehistoric man have been found at widely separated points. the centuries rolled away and the slow development of the ihuman race went on the place of gold became, more distinct As the first -seeds of civilizations, sewn In the slowing up of the aimless drifting of the Neolithic tribes, and men began' to gather into; settled communities, gold haddefinltely taken its place as a thing, of great value and as the symbol of power.

It must be noted, however, that It was prized simply for its beauty, its indestructibility, and the ease with which It could be worked. transition was slow. Lumps of metal were used quite early In Asiatic trade. Then; came ingots of weight and the first recorded coins appear to have' been minted somewhere about 600 BC QOLD was first issued in Britain in 1237, and there was a regular gold coinage by 1343. The golden sovereign first appeared in 1489, but it was subsidiary to silver, and In terms of the latter metal was often overvalued.

There were many changes until 1818 when the gold standard was finally adopted, and the theory of composite legal tender H. During the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth the trade and commerce of the world expanded at an enormous -rate, and the demand for gold grew accordingly, and it is worth noting that the production of the precious metal responded to the increasing demands, of money and credit It has been estimated that gold production of the world from 1493 to 1941 was somewhere around 33 billion dollars. QREAT stocks of gold have always been a danger to the possessor. They still are. That brings us to the value of gold, and the value of moneys or currencies.

In- my opinion there has been -too much loose talk about money: values. I have heard it said, for Instance, that, the Canadian dollar Is not worth nearly as much as the United States dollar, and 1 have heard the Canadian dollar valued down to 60 cents American by a Canadian. I don't believe there Is any Justification for such statements, and I don't like them because they smack too much of sellings, this country short didn't believe In either of the last two wars nor" today. They perhaps blamed "imperialism. Mr.

Hackett said that in this and patriotism" could render their greatest service to Canada. "If in fact there is a peril it should be made to everybody. These people should be afforded the opportunity of joining in resistance to a real menace. It is an invitation to hostilities for -a nation to be divided in Its foreign policy." QCF Leader M. J.

Coldwell wanted most to stress Uhat his a go resident TKUMAirt Budgetary, proposals to Congress brought still earlier. Are we to be told that Canada's fiscal position is so much more difficult than that of Britain and the United States that our Government must delay the budget until third of the fiscal year is over? XX" 'x by the Commission, said the beating was to compel him to reveal the whereabouts of a revolver. He now is serving a term in Burwash. This action is a sharp warning that "third of the American Nations Organi QORDON GRAYDON, who until lately has headed the Prog. Con.

external affairs division, laid about the Government with happy zest Foreign affairs policies were determined in secret without benefit of people or Parliament "Shocking" was Mr. Graydon' word. As for Palestine Canada had more than ordinary responsibility for UN's policy of advance, retreat, back-track and slow-up. In Korea we had been juvenile and We weren't much better when we failed to appreciate the vital friendliness of our big neighbor to the South. Canada had been quick to make commitments in UN, said Mr.

Graydon, but was she ready to back them up at home? Our bark should not become better known than our bite. He was interested in knowing the meaning of the "high-sounding diplomatic language" of the Prime Minister when he said Canada would be ready to play her part in collective security. "It is more Important still that Soviet Russia knows what he means. The Prime Minister should speak simply and boldly and tell our people what is the score. Had the dictators been given any substantial reason to believe that there were mighty forces Jn the free World that would rise against them might they not have hesitated?" Mr.

Graydon urged that our position be made clear and that our armed forces match our population and economic strength. The British Commonwealth must be fitted into the pattern pf our foreign policy so that it didn't jar our relations with the United States and the rest of the world. Canada might well come to lead the Commonwealth "and we must gradually but surely chart our course with that idea as a future He threw out, the thought that the King might move about his Commonwealth, ruling in different capitals alternately. "The Commonwealth's greatest 'degree" methods will not be tolerated in Can ada and that police brutality Is an offence ag- 'gravated rather than excused by the fact that Fellow Travellers Were Wrong. Only a few weeks ago some of our fellow-travellers were assuring us that this union of zation, which proscribes all forms of intervention.

The acceptance the Grau doctrine represents a great and positive triumph of the American Public only because of the 'constructive principles on which it is based but also for its world-wide scope as it establishes the principle of economic security of the nations thus revealing the cordial spirit of co-operation The Dainty Octopus. 1 Manchester Guardian. In the aquarium of the Zoo there is a. fine and active specimen of that nightmare sea-creature the octopus. He is one of the stars of the sea-water hall and he seems to know it; and, as such, he Insists upon Indulging his fancy, which is chiefly concerned Wjlth food.

None but the most expensive tbods will serve his turn, and, in fact only onerhe must have lobsters. The lowly crab he will not eat; he would rather starve. So, three times a week at least he has a and the Zoo authorities think he is worth the expense. There-, is nearly always a considerable group of fascinated visitors about his tank. An octopus does not usually give, the impression of being a quick mover, but when the doomed lobster is dropped into his tank it has little time to think and probably has no un- party was as much against Communism as Mr.

St Laurent and he told Commons that in party caucus that policy had been unanimously endorsed. JVestem European nations had nothing to do l'er Russia, that it was purely eco-V-jjomic, and that only political illiterates over iXiWre thought orit in terms of military defence. -and 'mutual understanding which The CCF, he said, would not be prevails among the American i too greatly concerned about relinquishment of certain privileges of national sovereignty to erect a vital UN. But UN should recognize that the world crisis was largely due to "the revolt among large masses against exploitation and Communism should be opposed, but so should constables are public servants. Cases this sort, fortunately, are rare in this country.

We clothe our police with considerable authority, but we Insist that they use wth discretion the power the "people delegate to them.We insist that they remember at all times that a policeman enforces the law but does not make it, that it is not his right to decide the guilt or innocence of an accused person, that certainly it is no part of his duty1 to administer punishment Constables who fail to abide by these elementary principles are -either brutal by nature or they are bad and lazy cops who try to solve a crime the easy way by jbeatihg up someone in their power. On any so inclined the Toronto, incident should have a salutary effect. The great majority of police officers, however, are decent humane men who do not need the warning. It needs to be understood also that they are dealing, in many instances, with law-breakers who are hard, tough and resourceful, and a charge of police brutality may mean, and very often does mean, no more than an effort by a criminal to win the sympathy of the court and embarrass the constable. For this reason' charges of that sort need the more careful Investigation that no injustice be done the men of the law.

triches when the Red menace is about" Mr. Graydon would have the Dominion and Provincial Attorneys General get around a common table they can get along for that length of and draft big shiny sharp teeth into: our Canadian laws which would tell all fifth column Communists to get out and stay out or stay here and behave or take the consequences. (He liked the p'monopoly "For our part we shall continue to fight against totalitarian dictatorship of every kind, whether it comes from the so-called Communist Left or from the Capitalist Right. The best defence of democracy comfortable apprehensions before it is enveloped and, so far as can be judged, immediately paralysed or smothered in the embrace of those eight powerful arms. Tiresome Cliches.

London Spectator. Sir Ernest Gowers' long- looked-for booklet Plain Words, words of a farmer who said he didn't know whether we should outlaw the Commies or inlaw 'em is our Crowned but anyway he'd get rid of 'em.) today unifier Head." lies in establishment of social and economic justice and in respect Mr. Graydon; spoke of UN with written primarily to improve civil what such gentry, with their assump-tions of superior knowledge, will say now, see-v--lnf that these Western European nations have got down to planning standardization of weap- cms, a pooling, of munitions, joint defence forces, even common chief of staff? 1 We hear much complaint about Communists among us. Almost as great a pest is the fellow-traveller and his dupe; the first following the, "party line" while trying to give the im-pression that he is merely being "liberal" (also, sometimes with pitiful he has superior knowledge), the second merely being stupid. x---' Be Kind to Animals Week.

Although we are not overly enthusiastic over weeks devoted to this good thing or, another, we must say we like the idea of a week concerned with kindness to animals. Because we think the measure of a people's civilization is told largely-by the way they- treat animals, if a man be kind to dogs, if he loves if he has an'affectionor horses, he can hardly be a cruel man. And so with peoples. 'X We always liked the, story of Sir Edward Grey walking three miles over a moor in the driving rain to cover a bird's nest, and liked also the story of how John Moblet, driving up a steep hill before his home would always get out of his. carriageand walk "behindjt "If a nation has not pity' and Sr somebody once said truly, "it is not civilized." could have, that truth taught more in our homes and our schools, with pity and compas- sion, love and kindness, applied to 'animals as to human bejngs, it would be great gain for all of servants English, is now avail able and can be obtained from the Stationery Office for a florin.

tor fundamental freedoms, i Mr. Coldwell said Canada's external policy should be to provide a hungry world with bread, freedom and the right of all peoples to control their 'own destiny, rather! than "a blind fear of another world I In particular Mr. Coldwell didn't like some of the Great In his second line he speaks of something or other being, or seeming "a work of supereroga Later on he quotes some one as saying of the words used by one great poet: "fewer would Powers "deals" givihg the Baltic several years of experience In attending its meetings. He was fearful of its making without power, of its so-called armed forces being only an international truancy brigade to catch small powers "and little fellows don't start or maintain He was fearful, too, that it was setting up a committee for every new idea and becoming clumsy, creaking and groaning. JN the matter of Communism Mr.

-Graydon had no objection to the Government's delineation of the problem but he used simpler word! and with greater relish. He called them house burners, porch-climbers, peeping toms. "Let's not be optimistic os- not have served the turn, and republics to Russia, Pacific is M. MACDONNELL, the Prog Con financial expert, followed shortly after Mr. Graydon to say that he had got the feeling there was an unreal and unurgent atmosphere about the whole debate.

Any Communist present would have exulted that we did not yet know the kind of a world we were living in. Empty seats, careless attitude, lackadaisical interest free and easy thinking. It all made Mr. Macdonnell sad, and though he thought Mr. St Laurent had made a good report of.

the world's condition he deduced that Mr. St. Laurent had decided nothing could be done about it. "It did not seem to me to lead anywhere. I did notMind any glimpse of a plan." Culbertsori more would have been super lands to the U.S.

Nor did he like allied and Canadian support for fluous is he quite certain that the substitution of work of supererogation" for the last word ln "reactionary governments elsewhere. Greece, China and Why hadn't action of the quotation would have been an improvement? been taken foreign min against Spain? The lsters deadlock ov er Germany Elsewhere he remarks that early in the war the finding of alternative accommodation (a "must" be ended, if necessary by a special peace confer- calling ence. phrase which Sir Ernest con- Lx MOPSY- By Gladys Parker dems) caused "many a headache Is this meant literally, or Is it a lapse into what has become a particularly tiresome cliche? Let us hope the former1. It seems that For Election Purposes. The Commdns had come to hear Mr.

St. Laurent tell where stood Canada in the existing world troubles. It had to wait while Mr. Kino revived buried issue of Hong Kong. Hong Kong had been disposed of months ago.

Yet Mr, King, who had refused to produce all the documents in the case in the first place, suddenly presents a telegram from Mr. Attlee (which he had asked for) saying in effect that Mr. King had been right about Hong Kong and Premier Dnzw wrong. Why this at this time? The answer seems easy, i Mr- King, incorrigible politician, was doing a job for his party in Ontario's election. A smashing victory for Mr.

Drew in Ontario, seeming altogether likely, would be bad for Liberals federally: why not try to discredit Mr. Drew by getting Premier Attlee to imply that Mr. Drew is untruthful? Mr. Kino told the House that In bringing up Hong Kong after everybody had forgotten It he was seeking his own vindication. What he really proved was that always Mr.

King is an inveterate partisan. Notes and Comment. Perhaps a heat wave would hurry along the budget. "In this cool weather the MPs are very comfortable and July seems far distant. people who write about the use JUCKY bidding in today's deal was wiped out by unsound play on the declarer's part North, dealer.

Both sides vulnerable. K0RIH 1 3 til? A 10 6 6 4 3 tite VEST EAST A A 6 5 ft 10 3 9 4 7 4 9 0 8 0 4 3 SOUTH A 10 4 tan i i A ft 10 7 ft i The bidding: North Et Sooth Wt it 1 diamond Past 1 eluni Past diamonds Pax 1 clubs Pau 4 club Pax club Pau clnbi Pau Pau Pau i As it happened, the six-club been a good decision, because it is usually correct technique to. set up a long, aide suit rattier than attempt to ruff losers (spades in this case). So South drew three rounds of trumps, then cashed the diamond king and led the jack. West's failure to follow suit was a shock to the declarer, who now was in a hopeless position.

Children's y'2 The civic budget as approved by City Council appropriates (242,700 of the tax revenues of 1948 for the Ottawa Children's Aid Society. There is a grant of and provision is made for an estimated expenditure of $208,000 on maintenance of wards of the Society, of $30,000 on maintaining children who -come temporarily, within the jurisdiction of the Society but are not given legal status of wards. "i "Last year the Society had from ihe city of Ottawa $203,843. It was explained that the is caused mainly by an increase from 85 to 90 cents per day in the allowance for the support of wards, By contrast the budget appropriation for the Social Service Department is $112,259, this including, according to an explanatory note, "unemployment relief charity and miscellaneous "welfare, and hospital and medical service" (for those on. relief).

But there is this striking difference in the two -cases. The Ontario Government pays one-half the cost of unemployment relief, except administration, and last year paid $53,000 of the expenditures of the Social Service Department the city's share, ihcliiding administration, was $93,000. On the other hand the Ontario Government-last year gave only $1,500 to the Ottawa Children's Aid Society, this as a grant and not on any contributory basis. We do not suggest that the Children's Aid Society is spending money extravagantly or without necessity. Wa do argua.

however, that of plain words may after all be only human themselves. Ottawa in 1923 Tnm TIM Jwmal kU IMS. B. HUNTER, Deputy Minister J' of Public Works, told the Committee of the House of Commons on Civil Service Affairs that when jobs were exempted from the provisions of the Civil Service Act they were filled from the lists. City police said there was a "ring" of bicycle thieves in Ottawa which dismantled, repainted and otherwise changed the appearance of stolen vehicles.

Germany announced she could pay a maximum war indemnity of 300 billion gold R. P. Sparks of Ottawa was elected president of the Garment Manufacturers of Ontario and Quebec Florence Lassandra, first woman to be hanged In Canada, went to 'the gallows at Edmonton 1 for the slaying of an Alberta provincial constable. Bob Boucher, brother of Frank, George and Bill, had been signed on with Montreal Canadiens for the next season. In, the British Commons a motion to reduce expenditures on the Singapore naval base was defeated by 253 to 84.

Mr. Churchill, in splendid irony, observes that the Labor Government has made "a definite contribution to the loss by Great Britain of her place in the That. Is an indictment the justice of which history will have to decide. jVl PLANTING in owe SPOT (VW I 60 I'LL HAVE StJ 7HE LARGEST rVc CABBAGE IN pV; It would take two ruffs to drive -out east's queen and nine of dia monds, and dummy was a bit short of entries! South had to lose all three of his spades! "This notes the CCF News, writing of the Ontario elections, "the CCF organization will not be fighting alone. It has a powerful ally in the trade union movement" And of course it has the full support of Tim Buck and his Communists.

It would have been consider contract was perfectly sound, but that was more a matter of luck than good bidding. Nothing that North heard told him that South could "fill" the dla-mon suit South would have bid the same way with the king of spades Instead of the king, of diamonds, and thus there might easily have been a diamond and a spade loser. ably more logical to lead the spade Jack at the second trick. Then, even if East won and returned a trump, could easily win in his own hand, ruff a spade, lead to the diamond king and ruff his last spade, then cash the heart king and ruff a heart' Then it would be time todraw trumps! West opened his fourth-highest "I says Mr. Graydon, "we must review the rules with respect to the diplomatic exchange of representatives-between nations." If any diplomatic mission finds its main activity in political propaganda its benefit to Canada is extremely problematical.

heart The ace won, and South immediately decided to establish the diamond suit for spade dis cards. Normally, this might have.