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a nMUU' rAVMA lT AM T 'A 'IU7iAN- BfIfM&NVILL.TnriMT'AWn THURSD'AY. MAY 8, 1941 PAGE- TW'O MNl.U* JCliJVC1,-V a .~~~ ,.~~~u- ... ninud 1I ,ndoubtedl3?cntbte h Y .4; - Tic Western acreage bonus policy as ceâ- elvcd by tiose within tic -seeret enuncils at Ottawa, isa at at becu jammed tirougi tic Hanse. Tiare was long, tedieus, acnli- onons debate, throngi al cf whicli, tic Ministen, Hon. Jamesa Garfield Gardiner, sot sud grinned, self assurcd, confident of tic auteome. Ip a description ef. sanie cf the passages of Housard, Tic Statesmnan suin- med up, weeks ago, tic final outeomie. Brief- ly, it was titis: "Tic measure will pose and ail Libéral opposition wil dissolve under tic compulsion of tic party wiip. " And iat is what iappened. Ticre werc only two promineut *iold-euts in the Lîberal ranka; only two wio had backbone enougi te stick with themr convictions as oppoaed te' this har*e.brained policy. Tiey werc Hiarry Leader cf Portage La Prairie sud Bruce XeNevin et Victoria County. Tic rea't al cringed ta tic party wiip. Tiere waa first tic amendmeut cf Mark Seun, wiieh was eategorlzed as "wau.t cf confidence." Ticre was later a sub-amrendment asking an in- ocase in price above tic 70e per busiel plus precessing tax. Ontario M.P 's., wie speke . .. and tiese includcd aur ewn W. F. Riekard cf Durhamn, objectcd te bensing coarse grain on the dusr Ânos n alternative, they supported a mark. This was lu accord witi tic main provision cf tic sub-aniendmnent, but wheu tic vote came, tiey imply got down off tic fence on tic goverument side. This sort cf performance leaves tiose wio con diseru oye-waali, with tic impression that a lot cf these timc-wastiug speeches are iiuply. plastered acrosa Housard for what they are worti as vote catchera. Thea. are not tic days fan playing pelit- 'i.s',Righit erais Canada, f romi reporte we tthe impression la growiug tiat o change ~Q4~wiiuot tat 60 per cent or more cf tic imm aetemm M.P's. cauld bc dispcnrned ~~t.tW'dyantage cf Canada sud Can- fflond The Advertlser 'e- eb.: ,,iu Series r.ltiosIip btwccn tic newspaper »0 4vertiuensid os important te tic 't oader ai it is to tic publisier. a r*",@metiUics unfairly accused #;àrVfflt to-tic odvcrtiscrs wio- r.~lOupon which tic ucws- oeroII4us impression ios tie average person , w ~muet have sdver- -'.,.e2r.if he happons * m md, lie eau- -* * -' r wtset tic policy ,Untrue, but ý and te tic gWUier wMI rOtempt to -the '~th- Establlshed 1854 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER 1Wltb whlch are Incorporated The Eowmanvflle News, The Necastle Independent, oud The Orono News. 85 Years' Continuous Service To Thec Town of Dowmanville and DurhiamaCounty'. Member ý -4> ~Audit Bureau àS of Circulations iuI~ Wcckly Newspapers AmseIatioii Cloas A Weeklies of Canaa SUBSCREPTON RATES $200 a Year, strletly hn sivânce. $250 a Vear la tic Unied States. -GEO. W. JAMES, Editor. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1941 April Countryside There has scarceiy been a spriug season 'wthii mernory that could equai 1941. Despite exceptionally ieavy snowfalls, tiere were no flooda. There have been no rains, yet moisture has penetrated to a depti that hma brouglit uuprecedentcd growte. Fal wheal, grass and ciover have neyer shown te better advsntage. Cropa generally are 'weli slong despite lack cf help, but acreage, as secu frein tic highways, has f allen away. Wlde areas have gene back te grass. Many have seeded down ýwioie fanms. And this may presage a trend to greater beef produc- tion. Some fariners have barns still flcf last ycar 's hay wti ti year 's erop equally heavy. Tic farni laor siortage wil be felt witiin a few weeks. Several farinera state that tiey will plant notiing lu thc wsy cf hoe-crops this year. Al cf whiic reflecta opinionts voiced in The Statesman dating freni last fall. There kas been littie teud'eucy te heed varions sug- gestions of ccustrnctive nature, notably those in regard to tic use cf power unita, the Inercase lun feed crop acreage sud tic caution tiat vegetables weuld net be grewn througiaut tic country this season as they were forrnerly. As the war gees ou sud heip becoines ,no-exitent there will be an alm.ost compîcte thiange iii agricultural economfy in rural Ontario unless ticre lsas change in the policies cf tiese who are elected to serve tic interests cf forgotten farinera. As we uoted lat week; many farmers 'wait for 'de- livcry cf implements ordered iast fali. Tiey arc stüi idie, sud we wouder if that condi- tion ebtaina elsewiere. Hia Master's Voice decide sud it wus inconvenient for it to re- assemble. oreold canker cf tic Sirois Re- port dies iald. The war still goes on and prof essed pafriots hem aud haw, ensidering Ontario 's position. Tiat stands first snd foremoat above war effort. T~he truthisl tiat tic tinie is very near when Ontario sud alother provinces sud tic whoie population will do juat what tiey are told te, do, under Dominion authoity ... an4 1k. it. As SeMt* Br iCapt. Elmore Philptt drawal of business, if that policy was net changed ta conforin with the wishes cf thc advertiser. Tie sucoessful merchant la us- uaIly successful because hie 15 an honorable man, aud few would stoop ta the level cf threstening a newspaper because its publish- er lied different ideas on a given question than the adve rtiser." The relationship between the advertiser and the newspaper is similar te that which existe between a inerchant and his customer. anly in tuis cae the publisher is the merch- sut and the advertiser the customer. The ad- vertiser purchases space in the newspaper because lie has a story te tel the readers of the paper. He uses sdvertisiug as a legit- imate means of drswing custom te hie store. If the newspaper continues ta provide the service required aud adequate returus fer the investment, the merehant continues te advertise. Wien hie feels he is net getting that value hie eoases teasdvcrtise. That tee is the relatianship whicli existe between any other merchaut and his custom.er. So long as the customer feels lie is getting good value and service fromn the store, he continues te be a customer. When value and service cesse lie takes his trade elsewhere. Plenty of Tinte Speaking ta Canadian sud United States Rotarians a f ew days age, Hon. J. L. Raîston said: "I fear that Canadiens th.emaelves do net see and knew enough cf our war activit- ies and they complain about it tee. " And again; " Our most dangerous enem~y la the idea that we have pienty of tume."1 These rernarks show that Mr. .Ralston is. informed as te publie opinion but, as oniy eue mem-. ber cf the Cabinet, lie la appareutly helpiess te do what is uecessary te combat the very things lie talks about. Over the, week-end The Statesman had occasion te test public apinioji away bock in the country where few copies cf daily papers circulate, and the consensus was: Wliat is wrong et Ottawa t .. . there's toc much delay; tee mucl talk; tee inuci waste of mouey . . . etc." Liberals of the old scheol are commeucing te criticize Prime Minister King. Tiey are aware of thie 30-day and 4-months training schernes; of thc apparent lack cf use cf National Registration; of the waste of tume and money oeccsieoied and the about-face as topolicies; cf the senseless waste of nioney fer poiitico-padding lu taking the census; cf tic inequalities as between in- dustry and agriculture; of tic cynical in- position of agriculturai palliatives, and s0 forth. Farmers are today far more keeuiy aware cf the lack of leadership than most people imagine. Asn Mr. Raiston says: " They are beginning te complain about it too.ye And tiat is something for Mr. Raiston and ail the Cabinet te begin thinking about. It int'o insistent deinand. And it all stemns froin thc belief tiat we are not into tuis. war as we should be into it. Mr. Raiston lias se statcd it; there may be implications in his speech that foreshadow an upset. He is te be commended for a frank public statement. No Roont For Waste - A recent issue cf the Christian Science Monitor, (oeeof the best iufornied dailies in the world), lias somcthing to say about tuis mtter cf waste. They discuses it under the above caption in a way designed te arouse public awsrencss of the importance of salvage. It la cf interest te note that pap- ers everywhere are now giving attentioni te tuis question. It la cf vat importance lu wartime. It la pretty wideiy known now that The Statesman was foremost in its ad- vocacy over a year ago, sud cniy during the pat menti,1 the goverument finally decided te launci a campaigu te salvage waste. A receut news item lama that serap la stili bciug shipped to Japon, a.coiitry linked directly with our enemies. In peacetime, of course, Japan was tic great consumer cf scrap froni America. We should have assur- anae that Mr. Gardiner 's great campaigu for .rags, boues, bottîe, should be safeguarded against transhipmnt te Japon. 'Výe are told that Anglo-Anierican interesta are shipping thournanda cf tons cf East Indies cil te Japaný News and runiora cf tuis sort may or may net be truc but certsiuly wc ouglit to be told. Only ycsterday wc had éuquiries frein tic country about délivery of scrap. Many fer- mers ae tns càÉ Mfmetl iiug about here sud WHAT WINS WAIS? It was Winston Churchil hlm- self wlio remlinded us noty'1ong ago, tiat glaons as was tie'Dun- kirk exploit, '.evacuotions do net win wars." The otier haif cf the story la that succesatul' evacua- tiens, weii-conducted r e t r e a t a keep wars froinibcing loat out- riglit. The worid of difference there la bctween a retreat sud o defeat la rnlustrotcd by Italian experi- ence in Libya and tic British cx- perience in Greece. lu Libya - wlierc tic British aI fia time had more thon two divisions engagcd - an Italian force cf. more thon 100,000 was cornpietely destroyed. The Italians nat oniy lbat.th . -bs tic, but bast ail power ta fie t ny more botties. lu Grecce thc Britlishsuffcred hcovy lasses, considering net oniy men unobie to gel out, but also tic heavy cquipmcnt lu whicli we are 50 woefuily shoýt. But Iliose ieavy bosses werc for leslieavy. tion those suffered lu the last war, nat'once or lwlce, but tume and lime again--season aftcr ses- son, ycar aller year. Everybody knows that Hitier's bid for world power la marc for- midable thon tiat af any canler wouid-bc world ruler. That la nol s0 mucli because of tic totalilar- ian nature cf lits evil prograii, but because case cf cornmunicg- tions, sud speed of travel, plus ernotmity of military power now make quick complete wonid con- qctwitiin tic realinof e cci- anclpossibility. say that experience cf previaus wars* suggests no bessons for 1h15 anc. Whal wc are trying ta do now la precisely wliat we tnîcd ta do agamnat Napaleon. For years we werc as woefully liandicapped in military power, in comparison wththti Frenchi dictator's ail con- quering army, as we are right naw. It took Brillis sea-power more thon ten years ta accomplisi ils historic task - weakening the encmy down ta tic point toI lie could be f inally knocked out by the army. The tide turncd wlicn uprisings began te occur in tic countries under Napolcon's heel. The Bri- tish sent on army inlo Portugal in 1808 for precisely thc sanie rea- sons tiat tic Britishi sent an arnmY into the Balkans i 1941 : There was resistaiice te thc aggressoi witîin tial ares. The soie thlng happened tien as lias happened now - we we~e chased al aven the country. We were alway0 fcrced to retreat, but wcre AI- ways able to do so intact sud .se wcre neyer forccd ta accept final defeal. As cvery schley knows thé poem net a drui was licord, not a funeral note as lits corpse te thc ramparts wc liurried" - soecvezy- body sliauid naw know that Sir Johin Moore was chascd out of Portugal in thal war just as we wcrec clascd eut cf Greece lost monîli - losing lits own lifebut kceping lits army intact. In this Peninsular war wc first liad to retreat - retreat - retreat. Then Welesley (after Duko et Welington) g et inside thie Mes cf Torres Vedras, whicli le lield for ycars fînally enierging. to chose the Frenchi eut of Porti.Àgal, eut of Spain, and tien te smasýh Napoieon's army at Toulouse. The whloe business took six years. INVASION ATTEMPT SUR£ Hitler knows tic lessons ot Napoieon's time as weil as any- body. It la therefore absoit.y, fînaily certain tiat lie wiil never wilingly permit the Brit. Empire ta figght the kind cf war that the Britishi have always woniluthie pat. In the fint p lace lielias foianh- Itention of ailowing tic Britishl biockade slowly to starve, ee- nomicaily if not literally, the countrîes lie new rules. He knows tsI st tthfla now stand ie uhm tie political sense as dlatingulali- cd from, tiernllitary. There la nat anc country i Europe frarn whici lie could wthdraw lits troopa, wtiout liavlng that coun- try throw off is yoke. His task of creoting s New Order i Eur- ope la nat finished but only begun by rnliltary cenqucat. As long as al tic -ordiary peo- pie of France, Italy, Norway sud se on,'ail yearu for a British vlc- tory-as their only hope for libera- tion Hitler con never secure fram withi those cauntries thc kind et coaperation lie muet have ta achieve is Europcan ain. At heart lei l probably as con- temptuotis cf the Qulalings, La- vais, Lindberghs as Uic people ot their own countries aise are. What lie must have to get any- where wlth wiat lie reaily wants ta do la tic acceptonce by thc people everywhere of tic Mesa that his new erder 15 luevitabie. Ail of whlci boils down toaa very simple fact:J.hat for poiti- cal ressens even rhore thon miii- tory Hitler muet destroy Britain's power te realat lits aims as effec- tively as lielias already destroyed that of France. C"PEACE" TRICK THOSE GLORIOUS RETRIATS In tic most critical days cf the campoign in Greece Ilhappened te be viaited by su elderdly-but oiert sud acute public persan fromn a distant part cf this con- tinent. I was laughingly poiting out ta hi tiat we British wcre ancè again doing wliat wc in- variabiy do - dramnatising sund giorifying aur retreots sa that In tic end they become akito vic- taries. Dunkirk ta tic average Erkitiali- er throughout the warld âfready stands as tic finet, moWt 'Sr miracuions, event ;f this ,WioiCe war. In Germany, on thcether liand, it la lield np ta Uic people, bti by printed word and movie filin, as about tic moat spectacu- bar Nazi succesa cf tic war. I was suggesting to My frlend that Napoleon was underatating tic case wlien liesaetd tat the Engilal neyer knew tvhen thcy were beaten. For history shows time sud again that retreats by tic Britlis were neyer for ýa Mo- ment accepted as defeata, but were themscives a 5 glorlf#ed that even i the minds cf thc men in- valved they becanie the fore- runner of future victories. My friend thought I was wrong. He agreed about the glorlfying of wliat tic armyi communiques used to coil "strotegic wltidrawa]s." But lie was convinced that tiare was net even o trace cf self-de- ception in tuis procescf glorifi- cation. "It la tic spiritual values that count,"1 was the way thot tuis astute aid gentleman liad it Ifigur- cd out. "ThIe British knaw hby lui- stinct thot ta retreat successfu.ily la about os liard sud higli« . test as icre la.,, This whaie question cf retreats seems particuiarly Important juat naw. Unicas al igris fa11; sud unless previaus wars affoi' no basla ok-camparisou we arelikeiy ta haove ta do o lot more retreat- ing befere thinga change, sa that we con begin ta attack wltli suc- cess. Voico of The People Dear Sir: Longbefoe te preaent Sal- vagecanpaiu bgan. indeed be- fore hewr brokeoutthrewr frequent reuesta before the coun- clof Ontaro towns ta have the .ugly cannon and field-pieces whlch supposedly decoratecparka and memorial plots removed. The purpase of the request ot that time was simply thot they are un- sightly. Now there la a real need for scrap metal but littie la heard, about utlllzing this obvious source. Instead we have thrust upon us "4ramnificatiaus" committees who urge soving cigarette folis, etc., and we are openy told by these comniittees thot e value of al scrap collected la not sufficient ta warrant payment of anyone ta coilect it or to litre a truck. I amn as mucliii fovor of econ- amy and aaving usefui scrap as anyone,, but frankiy the prenent cornpalgn of odvocating the mean- est klnd of penny pluching In Can- ada, a country of liniltless re- sources, la ridiculous. But thot la just one man's opinion and of- fered by the way. Wliy I really write thila letter la because I want ta sec the Salvage committees al over Ontario take those uscis guns, which &é quite valuable compared with the trash tley are now playlng around wlth. rnelt them down and turu tliem ta cow the coward. Let's make muiter a "has-been" suad look forward toaa future of peace when lits raglng speeches wlll actuall be enjayed -as a feature on "'Ve the People Speak." Yaurs For Vlctory, ZO O RADING Editor Statesman: In last week's Statesman o printed a coiurnn on egg gracug from the De pt. of Agriculture. This purported ta clear up by the method of questions and answers, "some misunderstandingi" arising out of The Stateaman'. former sumxnary. Your questions and answers only served ta deepen the mys- tery and the net result la merely added confusion. To me lt's as clear as mud. Sa ta extract fur- ther information may I just ask what some of these questians and answers reolly mean? You say "i future - with thc exception of producers gradin g their awn - - only Regltered Egg Grading Stations wilU - - grade eggs." O.K. But you continue: "'Ail gradera must posa Depart- mental test" - go ta achoal, I slupp.But you do not sy whether roducer-groders rm u s t go ta this expenue - or whcther they are camnpeiled ta f it up egg roorna, alr-condltioned and what net. As a fariner, there lanflot a Une of spccific information - only the abovevaueoutlinc pins thc way a frmr roucr au s' on *0ni0 iet hrul poor f igh merchant but now degraded ta seml-serfdom as a I'firat receiver." And lie can loy part on the line - give no assurance. as ta true grades - and pay the balance, if any, later on. You answer the question 'Wili flot this resuit li piacing contrai af the egg business in the hands of big shats? And you shout: "De- flnlteiy nati"l that is your reply- but it's flot an answer. Formers want ta know "Why nat?". In, the next paragrapli the orti- 'cie readi: The number of stations wli be determined by ordinqry competition - - and it continubs: "and even thougli there la no're- striction on the number of grad- ing station. etc." Now what does it mean by ail this obviaus run around? It expluins nothingl Then it explains: «the producer wil be withaut lis egg rnoney only for the first week" - alter that cornes regular returns. That is pure bunk. As long as a pro- ducer continues to aliP througli a "flrst receiver"» he will have rnoney owing ta hlm and he must wait till lie gets it, wlth na guar- antee that its lis own rney for lis own eggs. Finafly, the' "«producer rnay grade lis own eggs for sale ta re- tallera or consumera."1 Why flot; wholesalers? And what *are the detoiled, instructions for forniers. Sa far ita dense as mud. As a far- mer I want ta knaw. This Q. & ^. quiz by same deputy up ot Queen'a Park or whaever put the akeletan together needasa smeone ta interpret saine. Meantinie we are holding aur eggs and will donate them free ta *omeone who can make sense ou t of these opaque regulations. Darllngtan Farne r. Enniskillen, April 14, 1941. What Others Say~ SPENDING DIELLIONS FOR BEER (Oshawa Daily Timies) Beer drinkers ln Ontario down- ed $27,380,306 worth during the year endlng Mardi 31, 1940. 0f this ainaunt, 18,386,797 gallons valued at $16,612,456.80 were sold through authority holders. Since that time it la announced that con- sumption of the beverage has greatly increased. On Sunday evening Rev. W. P. Ragera, Bownianville, speaking at Centre Street Churcli stated that aince the beer parlors. were open- ed in Ontario the people of the proyince had'consurned $70 mil- lion wortli of alcoholic beverages and the government had coilected $10 million in taxes. Temperance socleties through- i their demanda that sorne re- striction be piaced on beverage raola. Premier Hepburn, haw- ever, lias made it abundantly clear thot 50 for as lie is concerrli- ed there wlil be no change in the liquor laws. Any restriction would have tô corne from the Fed- erai authorities, and it la very doubtfui if they wouid interfere, at this tirne, aîthougli it wauld be welcamed by manY wha make no temperanoe profession, but who feel that durmng the war the millions being spent on liquor and beer cauid be diverted ta moOre useful channels. MINORITY GOMERMENT (Almante Gazette) Ail f alr-rninded people nmust admit there la something Wrong at Ottawa wvhen aucli Liberal newspopers as the Ottawa Citizen the Taranto Globe and Mail an above ail, Uic hide-bound Manit- toba Free Press, came out in f avor of a cabinet shake-uP along na- tional govedninent Unes. The change must corne eventually and it wilU corne in spite cf Mr. La- pointe or Mr. King or any other man or group of men. Past historY shows conclusively that i tirne of war party politics must be rele- gated ta the background and the people must get together with anc cammon object in view. This nev- er con be done wlth a party gov- ernmcent in power bestowing Par- tisan favors on its own supportera and lgnoring thec cila cf what Caiiservatives, political neutrols and ail the other groupa repre. sented in the hanse of cornznans. LOCAL NEWSPAPER CLOSER'TO PEOPLE SAYS EXECUTUVE Head Office Toronto, Canada April 22, 1941 Dear Mr. James: >1 The firat advertiseneât i 1941 sertes of oui' Institutionai or Good-Wiil Building. Camnalgn la going farwardtO youand wlibe fallowed by thersWInail coverlng about the saine space as used last year. The reaction iliat lias resuited from the prevloi.ii suies lias been aucli as ta warrant à continuance of the programine, and inan srmail measure this li been due ta the helpfu co-opîration and service of the Wekly News- papera. ThroUgh your Publication we feel we get dloser to thc people in wliom we are iterested and with an intimnacy sucli as only the local publicationl can give. I appreciote greatly the many instances of helpful co-pperation on yaur Part. 'Yours sincerely, John Mrtn Director of Public Relations Massey-Harris Co. Llmnted. '~ N There are oniy twa woys thut I con figure wliereby Britain mlglit be averceme. Hitler miglit de- strey lier power ta realat; or lier wiil ta reslat. I do nat think lie con da cither but amn sure lie will try boti. In plain wards, I thlnk Hitler wil try, bath an octual invasion cf Britain by in tic arined force at is cemnind; sud lie wlll aiso try sather peace offensive. I do nat belleve'lie wll con- tinue te rely ouis air sud sub: marine attaçks ithc North At- iontic because, i spite of hla suc- ceas there, tic wiole weight of U. S. Atlantic naval power as wel as British wll sacu be availobie ta fruatrate that particular coin- paign. A direct attack on Britoin there- fore seems te me inevitabie soon- er or later. My guess la thst, if Hiter, meets with funther spectacular succeéa in tic Middle Est lie wil go al out oan uter peace Offensive - designed especiaily ta appeal ta tic propertied classes. Already anc U. S. newspaper whici sliould know better argues that Britain liad better come to terms with Hitler wiile sic lias sometiug te bargain witi. I regard that as tic most i-, sidiaus argument current in tic world ta-day., Any peace by ne- gotiation would be - nat the end of our troubles - but tic begin- ning cf tribulations a liundred- foldl' marc dangerons tien-toue we have faced since tice-Nazi beast came up out tie abyss. "They haven't sent my dress for the Dance.* "Your dressl They hoven't sent the Sweet Caips." SWEET CAPORAL CIGARETTES "#Tb.>atrestform in wbick tabacco cars h- yois~" W 1