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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1931 PAGE SEVEN "SOVIET INDUSTRIES NOT HEEPING PACE Enterprises Falling Behind : in Five-Year Plan Moscow, April 28.--The Soviet press continued recently its cam- paign for a general tightening of the belt and quickening of pace to meet the stern exactions of the five-year plan, while it is noted that many enterprises within the Union have maintained or exceed- ed the rates of progress prescribed for them, it is likewise pointed out that other undertakings are piti- fully behind the tempo they had been expected to achieve. Economic Life, states that the average achievements of the five- year plan for the first quarter of 1931 are more than 30 per cent. below the level that had been fix- §-. ed, and adds that the tremend variations in the rate of progress of various undertakings reveals an "intolerable" situation which cannot be permitted to continue. Under the heading, "Stalingrad tractor plant should be taken in tow By Soviet public opinion." Izvestia discussed the situation at this vast enterprise of the lower Volga which has caused so much disappointment within the Union. The figures presented show that during the first Juarter of 1931 the output was only 45 per cent. of the total prescribed by the five- year plan, that for the first half of April the figure wad less than 30 per cent, Inefficient Staff ' Jzvestia notes that although Stalingrad is one of the best equip- ped tractor plants in the world, its operation has been featured by high breakage figures and exorbit- ant costs of production, as well as by the low output referred to. The present difficulties, according to Izvestia, are caused by, first, the poor qualifications of the workers and the middle technical staff, and second, imperfect co- operation between the plant and the enterprises which supply it with raw materials. Izvestia goes on to say that an efficient staff must have proper living conditions and an adequate food supply --leaving the infer- ernice that something is to be de- sired in these respects. Finally the newspaper expresses the opin- fon that expert workers from other plants in the Union should volunteer to go to Stalingrad to help bring order out of chaos. Pravada publishes a long open HE development in automo- J bile design in the last quarter century was strikingly dem- onstrated recently when the one- millionth Ford car made in Canada was completed at the East Windsor Ontario, plant of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. The one-millionth Canadian Ford was a new town sedan, gleaming with rustless steel exposed metal parts and a rich pyroxylin finish. This distinguished new Ford type has a slanting windshield and a roomy body fitted with comfortable seats and finished in rich uphol- stery. Officials of the company contrast- ed the newest Ford with one of the first Ford models made in Canada. In its day the Ford of a quarter cen- tury ago was a remarkable vehicle. It was an open model, with a front seat and a removable tonneau Of the right-hand drive type then The two photographs show the shar p contrast between one of the first Ford cars made in Canada and the one-mjilionth Canadian Ford, the pictures typifying the amazing progress In automobile development. common, it was fitted with gleam- ing brass equipment, including ofl lamps of the carriage type, and a horn sounded by pressing a rubber bulb close to the driver's right letter from 32,000 workers at the Ptilov plant in Leningrad to their Stalingrad comrades, sternly re- proaching the latter for their fail- ure to produce. "One hundred thousand peasants' collective farms," the Leningrad workers write, 'are awaiting tractors, and still you delay." New System Decreed Economic Life gives the major part of its first page to a discus- sion of the failure of the Soviet industrial and commergial trusts to prepare for the general revolu- tion in the system of accounting under which each is to be made wholly rseponsible for all its acti- vities. Each will be required to pay its own 'dents, to arrange for credits with the State Bank; to account for every -ruble expended and to meet punctnally, the terms of contracts. The change was de- creed by the Sovnarcom (council of People's Commissars) on March 20, and all agreements for raw materials, sales and the like are to be concluded by April 25. Econ- omic Life, however, reveals that those responsible for the manage- ment. of' the trusts have shown a deplorable lack of understanding of the new system and hve moved OWEST PRICES IN HISTORY R a low priced tire th Firestone-Oldfield has -- equal for long, low-cost, dependable mileage. 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"To understand Just how slow is the pace," the newspaper con- tinues, "it is necessary only to note that by April 17, eight days before the final date, one-third ot the 103 enterprises involved had not yet begun negotiations for contracts. From throughout the Union come reports of extreme inertia on the part of the respon- sible managers.. Instead of clear cut, business-like draft contracts they offer unbusiness-like drafts so defective as to be of no use." Economic Life then expresses the view that the failure of the project to date may be ascribed to the fact htat it was not made sufficiently clear to the masses. An immediate remedy of this sit- uation is necessary, it concludes, so that the tempo of Bolshevist progress can be continued. LITTLE CHANGE (GENERAL TRADE Canadian Centres Report Fair Sales Volume Winnipeg, April 28.--The week- ly trade report of the Canadian Credit Men's Trust Association, Limited, for the week ended Sat- urday is as follows:-- Halifax---Wholegale trade fair, retail trade reports little change, although an improvement is anti- cipated in seasonal lines. Saint John --- Wholesale trade seems to be Improving slightly. No particular complaints are re- ceived at present. Retail trade sontinues fairly good. Collections show no improvement. Montreal -- A fair volume fis reported in wholesale groceries, dry 'goods, somewhat quiet, boots and shoes report good busi- ness. Clothing fair. Hardware shows a slight increase in sales. ladies' wear quiet. Retail city merchants report a good week's trading. = Country merchants also report an increase in volume, wholesale collections decidedly better and retail also improving. The port of Montreal is very ac- tive and shipping should be brisk within the next few days. Toronto: -- No change of radi- cal importance has been noticed in the trade situation in Ontario. Sales in wearing apparel have not been excessive, but accessories have kept up a fair volume. Quan- tity buying is greatly restricted and merchants are still retaifiing their stocks in a limited degree. There is no great {improvement noted in the building and con- and decorators are doing a fair volume. Automotive trade re- ports fair increase. Collections slow to fair. Winnipeg: Manufacturing continues fair. Wholesale grocer- ies fairly active, dry goods, gent's furnishing and ladies' wear im- proving steadily, Boots, shoes and rubbers slow. Hardware only fair. Building and construction not up to expectations. Retail trade shows improvement. Collections in all lines continue slow. Moose Jaw: -- Retail clothing usiness fair; wholesale boots and shoes show some. improvement in sales, but collections ' still. 'slow groceries showing slight improve- ment and collections good; hard- ware fair with collections fair. Re- tail hardware reports usual lines of paints and house material not moving freely owing to nnfavor- able weather conditions: buflders' hardware at a standstill, with gar- den supplies moving slowly, Regina: -- Wholesale groceries good and reported up to last year. Dry goods fair; boots and shoes quiet; hardware; fair. - City and country retail trade fair to slow Collections fair to slow with a slight improvement noticed in a few lines. ' «Saskatoon: --- A fair volume. is reported in wholesale boots and struction industries, but hardware | shoes; groceries fair; oils and greases fair to good; cetail trade shows an improvement in season- 'able lines. Collections slow. Calgary: -- Recent unseason- able weather undoubtedly respon- sible for general decrease in re- tail volume during the past week. Practically all lines reporting busi- ness very slow. Collections still quite difficult to make. Edmonton: -- Practically all lines of wholesale trade report business quiet with only spasmod- ic increases in sales. Retail city trade has been adversely affected by weather conditions. Collections fair. Vancouver: -- Manufacturing fairly good. Wholesale groceries good; dry goods, while fairly good, showing an improvement over the previous week. The balance of the trade report is fair with a slight improvement. Retail trade very fair. Collections generally | slow. 'AMAZING FACTS OF MIGRATORY BIRDS London.--The energy expended in swimming the Channel must be ag nothing compared with that used up by many of our migratory birds. There have been several instances of birds crossing the Atlantic. A lap-wing ringed in this country was recovered in Newfoundland, and this probably flew over the thou- sand of miles of sea without rest- ing. says Oliver G. Pike, F.Z.S,, in this article in Pearson's Weekly. Many of these birds are glad of the help of a passing steamer, and when they land on this in an ex- hausted condition they show little fear of man, and allow passengers to feed them. A short time ago a large steamer bound for Liverpool was nearly a thousand miles from the American shore when a large flock of birds settled on the rigging and decks. Longest Flight of All Mapy of these, which included pigeons and owls, were captured by the passengers, and the ship's car- penter was kept busy making cages. Three small birds fell exhausted on the deck of a steamer in mid- Atlantic, Two survived, while the third died from starvation. The two survivors were a linnet and a chaffinch. A Labrador falcon captured by a light-keeper on the west coast of Scotland was so exhausted that he was able to pick it up, and although he endeavored to keep it alive with suitable food, it succumbed. It must have travelled from New- toundland. Some migratory birds fly great distances. Our small swallows come six thousand miles each spring, and return the same dis- tance in autumn, and many of the diminutive warblers will travel thousand miles each way. The ringing of birds by British ornithol. ogists has given us valuable infor- mation about the destination of our migrants. We have found that our swallows winter in Natal, our cuc- koos go to Northern Africa and Pal- estine. But what are we to think of a bird which nests in the Arctic cir- cle and winters in the Antarctic? It is believed that our dainty Arctic tern does this; if so, it makes the longest flight undertaken by any bird on migrating. A sea bird could, however, settle on the sea during the journey, and as this tern travels down the coast of Africa it would have plenty of opportunities of resting. One of the greatest mysteries of migration is the way in which the tiny travellers find their way. It has been proved time after time that they endeavor to return to the self-same spot season after season. A pair of red backed sMrikes re- turned to the same bush for nest- ing two years in succession, and a small warbler I have watched has built her nest in the same little bush for three successive seasons. Between their nesting operations each bird must have flown not less than six thousand miles, Travellers in the southern seas have often seen the great albatross following their boat for a week or more, only settling for fleeting mo- ments to pick up food thrown from the ship. 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