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PAGE TWO THE BOWMOWTfl.LIL.RE' OrNAMUO TURS -. - --------------VJLJ., 1 -UUT WW A , ur~~ O 14 Parliament Meets v h s s a" k V _ Fifth of Increases Paid Farmers Speaking to the Ottawa Rotary Club ne- cently W. E. Heekins, secretary of Canadien Federat ion of Agriculture, said "Agricul- ture is the inost importent of al aur svar industries for, despite modemn mechaniani, an enmy atili traveis on its stomacli. lu ad- 'dition ta that we have the factor peculiar to -this Ivar that we are aIl in it'. and the -storgachs of the civilisa population are about ý:as important as those of the arrny." Mr. Hakins emphasized that an ilîcrease in farma pnices would not make a great in- * -crease in the cast of living. Assuming thé *eost of distribution to be et a fair level now, they need not ise because the coat of fart products is raised. He painted out that on a general average 80 per cent of a custom- -er 's dollar spent on food stuffs is spent with industry, commerce and lebor for packages, .freiglit, weges, and the whoiesale and retail 'distribution casts, and anly 20 cents of the 'e onsumer's dollar reaches the fermer. V War's Overhead Cost Saie rnontlis ago The Statesmen dnew attention ta the fact that because Canada lied not adopted a aystem of selective ser- vice, the cost of recruiting and maintaining greet numbers in the ermed services, as counted in dollans, wes a tremendous and aeedless birden upon texpayers. Tekiag aur local community as typical of most of Cen- '4da ,we found that many Who rushed ta join when war broke out, contained a large ý»~roportion of men who lied been on relief <wwere out of work and who lied femilies. They were accepted and, even today are ac- ceptable to those in autliority for overseas service. The single conscripta are heid in Canada. In no gavemument reicase were we eble 1ta find how much this was unnecessarily conting the country. Those feets gat no pubi- llofty. But we secured the figures for Juiy, 1L941, for ail the forces cave the Navy. The were 218,000 checks issued ta dependents of soldiers and ainmen in that monîli, toteliing -$*11,500,000. Those checks were for wîves, nlothers and chidren of men who lied en- iisted. Takingf£jgu1res for the Navy and for ,.subsequent eaistments, the annuai coat ~n'would rua close ta $150,000,000, which is -womc figure. Add ta this the expected rise în~ separation allowances end it would ap- ],piroximate *200,000,000 per year with a uteady risc as long as the government ne- fume to adopt conscription. :' , ' iwre eu be no argument ta justify this «-penditure. Many of thepe married men -1 1 i Eatabflscd 1854 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER With whlch are lncorporated The BowmanvIlfleNcws, The Newcastle Independent, and The Orono News. 85 Ycars' Continueus Service. To Thec Town of BowmanvilUe and Durham County. Member ~> Audit Bureau of Circulations Canadian ChsWeekly Ncws»peprs ClwAWecklies of Canada SUESCRIPTON RATES $2.00 a Year, strlctly iu alvance. $250 a Ycar in the Unitedl States. GEO. W. JAMES, Editor. The goverument wiJl meet parliament November 3rd. t is likely the preaent ses- sion will bec-prorogued forrnally, Novem- ber 4, and the newv session opened by the Goveruor-General, Thursdey, November 6, less then a month hence. Government by O.rder-in-Council has been th6-rule in Can- ada ever since war was declared, whether si' parliament was in session or not. What is said on the floor of the House makes little difference to government policies and de- cisions. For those who enjoy a continued etory, there is ail the amusement afforded in the day M~( day record of Hansard. t is unlikely thet the present session wil differ a' mucli from others. There may be debates dealing with war- Ztime restrictions, with curtailment of luxury buying, and with the persistent question of conscription. There enu be little doubt that 1' this will be the "hottest" wartime session ào far staged. The main leaders have toured Canada and Britain. Statements wiil b.e challenged. Division of opinion will be counterweighted by pronouncernents of those of minor parties. It will lie, largely, the sarne oid merry-go-round. But there is one matter upon *hich ail parties should agree, and that îs that the time has arnived for an "ali-out" in national seving. For sanie weeks The Stetesman lias stressed this downright necessity and it is hoped that de- bates will result in definite if not drastic steps in that direction. Sa far as conscription is concerned, if the inatter breaks out in full parliamentary de- bate, there will lie embarrasament for the govemument and possible threats of reaigna- tion. There is division of opinion within the Cabinet on this question and no matter how Iustily they "beat their breats" and pro- claim their loyalty ta their chief. some of them caiinot suppresa the fact that officers in the services have came out publicly for conscription. Interesting in this connection is that tufe Canadian LWgion bas calIed atn extraordinary Council meeting ta demand conscription, "regardless of race, creed or geographic origin, for total war effort." One of the officers listed on the Legion 's letterhead is Maj.-Gen. L. R. LaFleche, D.S. 0., who we are informed, is Associate Minis- ter of National Wer Services. Canada is pre- .pared for precisely ivhat the Genadian people want. At no peniod in the history of Canada have so many "Help Wanted" appeals gone forth as dunin~ the past six montha. On évery'baud'thé fect is apparent. There is eompetition despite the mild footnotes that raids are not intended on personnel of coin- peting industriel plants and there is little heed by industry, generally, that the youth of the land are needed in the armed ser- vices. There are four main celle going forth at the moment for manpower but in- dustrýy seema ta have firat- preference lie- cause it cen offer by fer the moat attrac- tive inducement. Industry enu offer short hours, high wagea, and protection for slackers. Look et the "want-ed" pages of the dominant dailies. You will see column upon colurnn of "Youth Wanted, only young men need eppiy." Nine tentha of these indus- trialists are calling for youths when men of 40 aud over couid answer the cail. Here is a coxtrat: A Toronto department store chants: "Young men wented immediateiy for steady empioyment" while in the sarne paper, e grocery-chein warehouse wants: "Men for store work, full time. 40 to 45 yeers aid." The latter is the exception. The others, apparentiy, cane littie about Can- ada 's wvar effort in the broader sense. And once a "youth" gets under their pratecting wing and makes gond. he heasrightly power- fui friends who en talk ta exemption b)oar'ds. Most important of al war industries, i.e. food producers, or in other words, farmers, have jiot the ghost of a show in getting lielp. Jn spite of the fact thiet farm wages have gone up 100 percent. ini the past yeer, they cannot compete with those wvlo bid stili higlier for the yot.h of the land. The government do a lot of protesting aud pieading but tiiese big-shot employers pey no attention. We have yet ta hear of one ,oiitary plea from Ottawva îot ta deplete the most vital farces af al. . . fan ilabor. We are heading for chantage of foodstuffa in severel Unes because "youth" lies been lured off the land. The other two calis take fonm as recruiting tours and demanstrations, and Mn. Raiston 's recent appeai to the pub. lic ta help hirn urge "yoluth" ta join up. What a medley of ili-fitting competîtion. This is the "voluntary" way of beating Hitler, and kidding the public Canada is making an eli-out effort. -V Using authority given by the provincial legisiature last year, Hon. T. D. Bouchard, Minister of Hlighways, has banned com- mercial sigils and posters considered a det- riment to the beauty of Quebec's leading highways. Ontario should folloNv a similar policy if it expects to attract its full share of American tourists to its border. Why build beautiful hbighways and have the secenery marred and distructed with un- sightly and ugly signs and biliboards? -V Hair dressers ini England are now asking women to bring along their own pins. 0f course a hair pin neyer did last a lady as long as a man makes use of a collar button, eommente the Peterboro Examiner. As proof of thia statement the editor of The States- mnan bas been wearing a collar button regu- larly which he bought in England in 1917 during the asat war. ýt Lt is By Cap& rLimore philpott should have been assigned to industry ai home in the first place. They could havE produced with greater efficiency than thf untrained youths who shunned enlistmenl and flocked in to take factory or office jobE and wvho shuld have been directed into thE armed services. The aaving in effectiVE manpower would have been tremendous and this huge cash outlay, month by month would have been but a fraction of what il now is. AlI of this bas had no publicity anc it ought to be exarnined completely when the House meets. News of this kind, and itE cause, will corne as a shock to those wh< have to foot the bill. The Ottawa Scene o', 4' pt# # 0 0 ~1 Under the above heading, on the editorial pages of the Globe and Mail, a staff writer pungently focuses publie attention upon the Ottawa scene, with particular reference tc government personnel and the nearing crisis which their ineptitudes have beckoned to corne and perch, like Poe's raven, and reproach them. The present series is as timely as that of the military commentator who, weeks ago, on.that paper's enlighten- td sixth page, did much to awaken readers to the needs of the hour and complacency in high places. The present series cornes on the eve of changes which are overdue. No governrnent can long withstand the pressure of reasoned exposition. The first article deals with three serious disabilities with which the present Cabinet is afflicted, chief of which is -the over- shadowing influence of Mr. Lapointe, ever eounselling caution to the Prime Minister. Sixty-four safe seats seems a mighty potent argument. Mr. King is fully aware of the need for total effort but, inherent reluct- ance to demand sacrifices from the people imposes a handicap upon him as a war lead- er. Recause of these things, people are becoming impatient as they became *ith Mr. Chamberlain, and the writer draws a subtie inference. The second article gives a brealtdown of the Cabinet, which leaves. but a remuant of really resolute men. The others are shown in various degrees of incompetence. The Minister of Agriculture is shown as an in- flated failure, a hinderance to the Prime Minister and a "seil them down the river" attitude to Agriculture. The third in the series examines the Civil Service and traces wh? it is the real govern- ing, force of the nation. Incompetent Min- isters are overwhelrned and overshadowed by it and favorites have their day. The dlaim is made that a majority of votera are' now agin' the government. We look for- ward with interest to the next article by this wide-awake observer. . DKSGRACE TO CANADA i keeping with general orders In aspech t Winipg, T.froni the censor at Ottawa that In spechat innpeg R.T.there be aboslutely no mention of tElson, a noted ICanadian news- the Greek ships. jpaperman who represents the Southam Press at Washington, The utter absurdity of this poli- shoedho shrtsihted cen-cy of attempted censorship la il- shoship whch suppres news of lustrated i thla case. Trhe sanie naval axtd ahirex ploits, ahut articles that could not be publish- Britlans airceloit hurtltg edon the Pacifie coast were pub- Briai's arcase n he niedlished elsewhere i Canada. States. Moreover the field representative There have been two other out- of this particular broadcaster. saw standing examples of this recent- the Boris tied to the dock in Vic- ly. An ironclad censorshlp was toria, got the ntory *hile here as clapped down in Canada on all a tourlst, wlth the above result. * newa concerning battleships like r the Warspite. Yet U. S. neWs- W13ERE CENSORSHIP 18 e papers were pourmng acTrS the VIOJ1OUS 1) border, and the radio waves were Nations cannot fight modern r cluttered up with news of that wars without censorship. Cennor- very battleship. The ship's offi- ship la absolutely necessary to cers were even making broad<éast withhold from the eneniy infor- speeches from service clubs, tell- mation which la useful to hlm in ing about the exploits of the ves- the conduct of the war. But where sel, durig the very period when censorshlp la not only unjustified Ottawa officialdom was brestlng but positively injurious to the na- fire and brimstone threats against tional interest is where it with- any mention of the ship's name. holds from the public news of ac- This episode may be but a mod- tions or policies which are them- L ern illustration of what that Dic- selves giving aid and cordort to kens charaster was made to say a the enemy. century or so ago: The law la a In my opinion, the censorship hass--even more in wartime than which has applied for mucb of in peacetime. this year on the Pacific coast had But another simation lias exist- nothing to do with the fighting ofj ed out on Canada's Pacific coast the war. t was ta withhold from during the past year which la ffar the public information the publ-' from fuxmy. cation of which would have re- We have had a glarmng example sulted i stronig expressions of of how censorshîp can be made to opposition to the government's operate absolutely contrary to policies. the public interest. We have seen That la, it was a political cen- how the hamstringing of the reg- sorsh.ip, and not a censorship jus- ular agencies of public informa- tiffed by militaiy necessity. tion can result in government i- Does aniy reasonable person action and gross official injustice really believe that seven meni- which woulçl have been complete- bers of the Greek steamer Eliza- ly impossible had the newspapers beth could have been taken from been permitted to operate as they their ship and thrown into custody are supposed to in a democracy. for five weeks without public I refer to the case of the 14 trial or hearlng of any kind in Greek ships which have been car- court, if there had been hearimgs rying war materials to Japan in public or full publicity in the from Canadian ports. This mat- press? ter lias now been made the sub- These men 'suffered as they did iect of several coast to coast radio because nobody knew about it tiil broadcasts in the United States. too late. Nobody knew that their It has found its way, via a speech only crime,.was that they refused by Mr. Coldwell, onto Canadian to take war materials to their radio networks, and to all sub- enemy and ours - and that they scribers of the Canadian press. even volunteered to serve in the But down at the docks, as for Canadian army or any place else almost a year past, la stili tied they could help againstHitler. the Greek steamer Bonis. She Nor could the Greek steamshîp won't go to Japan with 7500 tons Borla have been shunted around of scrap iron for the simple rea- for a whole year if the public had son that the crew won't sail with been permitted to know the amaz- it-even though seven men froni ing truth. their sister ship the Elizabeth Thene Greek reglatry ships are were jailed for f ive weeks for said to be ownd by an Italian that very same refusai. But the stock company, of which the Pre- government has flot yet got ident la a white Russian resident around to putting that ship and of Switzerland. Ships flying the its crew to work for the allies, Italian flag were seized outright and not our enemies. by President Roosevelt many BROACAST montha ago-and put into service HUGHES RACS - for the allies. Yet the lant of the I do not know whether to be Greek ships la ntull here. While complimented or not. But it ap- our coastal services are stripped pears that the one article 1 wrM of hall the rlégular number of which caused the most attention slips, and whlle some ships on the was the one that was neyer print- Atlantic are so over-worked and ed. The following excerpts from filthy that hundreds of airmen the radio speech made by John lad to be threatened with punish- B. Hughes, over the Mutual net- ment to force them to sail on work from Los Angeles on Sep- those slips. tember 19, are self explanatory: My point la this-ýhat publicity "There la something very far froni being a hindrance to an strange about the apparent ten- aIl-out war effort, la the surent dency toward appeasement of way of helping to get that very Japan that marks the processes thing. of government quartee at Wash- Typiical of the comment caused new ington right now .. . Washington by the Canadian government's the han been said by some people to Pstoundin« handling of these "« befollowing 'the British lead re- Greek ships, and suppression of- broi garding the Japanese. But in Can-_________ ada where there la also complaint R against this appeasement policy, T Canadian officials say thet they THE U ITI i are following London and London is followîng Washington. That seems to be a circle that gets no- where. . .. "The United States continues ta supply oil and scrap iron to Jepan long beyond any sensible relation to our generel foreign policy. ,Canada followed too." "During the 1l montha after the British Empire embargo egeinst Jepan 14 Greek shipa were dlean- ed from Britlah Columbia ports with cargoes of war supplies for Jepen--shipments largely of scrap iron-while at the same time the Canadien shipbuilding program waa being held up for leck of steel. Public complaints over the situation merely resulted in Cen- adian censornhip of news on the subject, and the residents of Bni- tish Columbia didn't know about the ship sailings-did flot know that the members of the Greek ship Elizabeth were imprisoned for five weeks beceuse they re- fused to sail their ship with war supplies for Jepan. Under the Canada Shipping Act these Greek seamen were secretly locked up in jail at Oakalla, British Colum- bia, and were finally released to take pansage on another ship bound elaewhere than for Japan. I am told that the crews o! al these slips leaving Canadlien Bowmnanville Branch: P. O. McILVEEN, Manager ws concerning them is this frorn work last Thursday made certain facts are in accordance with his SPortland Oregonian: revelations concerning trade with assertions the governments are 'John B. Hughes, in hlm news Japan that decidedly needs clean- flot oiily ini disgrace but need )adcast over the Mutual net- mng up. 'We would say that if the their heads examined."1 FARMýERSUnAS IMPORTANT V- Competing For Hlep 1 - - -L - - - - - - - - - - - - AS ARMOURERS 0 beth crew, were written one eat the end of April and one at the _________________ end of August. T7hey were not I I i se callelrefused publication on A DIN ATO 'the Pacll coast but were omltted1 THE BOVMAIMILLE STATfflMAIV T im É%%YAýVý It May not appear so dramatic to operate' a dairy farni, to grow grain or raise bacon as to make planes and steel tanks, but the work of the farmer is just as essential to victory as the work of the armament~ maker. Always interested in the development of agriculture and. practical co- operation with farmers, the Bank of Montreal is especially desirous now of assisting our growers of foodstuffs. Farmers are cordially invited to talk confidentially with our nearest branch manager respecting their credit needs. "8A BANK WHERE SMALL ACCOUNTS ARE WELCOME" Modemn, Experienccd Banking Service ...the Outcome Of 124 iYears' Succesàful Opemation, 1