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- w ~ M i i. t Cigars, Teli amettes - &iU mau wral CHRlI Phone 778 bacco, Cit- lu nChrist- ippinga, Doxed Stationery la suitable for adult gifts. New styles at lqw Prime -- .,~',, ~ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1941 By Capt Elmore1 The steady, if bloody, progresa of the Germans in Russia; and thce tmprary rmiscarriage of Uic Bri&lsdefcnsive-attack in Libya arc ncw reminders of Uic gravlty and imniensity of aur task in wi- ning Uis war. As I travèl further i Canada and try ta learn the mcaning &i ààZvhat I sec and hear, it becomes 'ýMMniost painfully dlean that the fgreat mass of the people of this country have as yet no real fore- boding of the size of the job abead of tbcm. They do not real- ze that wbcn Winstan Churchill promiscd bis people "blood sud tail and tears and swcat" be was flot juet indulging in a fiigbt of oratony, or making another mag- nificent phrase. He was predict- ing what was certainly coming ta pass in the wbole free wold- sooner or later, n some measure at least. Canada's tcsting time approach- es just as dcath hàs removcd anc of the real pillars of the political arder in Canada. The late Ernnest Lapointe was in a neal sense Uic last of an era. His life-influence bas 'a real story ta tel ail Canada in the months just ahcad. Fan bis power for a wholc gencration was at icast equal ta that of the titu- lar Prime Minister. For twcnty ycars French Canada dominated th'e political scene in Canada. It did so because of wbat happencd in 1917. ANOTHER LIBERAL Fate bas a way of playing qucer tricks. The passing of Ernest La- pointe, just after the burial of another noted Liberal, Newton Wesley Roweil, throws into clear focus a sont of miniature pictune of Canada's langer prablcm: That hs that in ahl sinccnity French Canadians and English spcaking Canadians may feel cornpélled ta pursue distinctly divergent cours- es in any given situation. The conscription law of 1917 wauld neyer have 'been passcd bad t nat been fervcntiy support- cd by Libenais like Rowcll as wdl as by Conservatives and western progressives. When the fate of Bitain was in daubt, as t was in 1917 only in icss degrce than now, Canadians wbose most fundamen- tai loyalty was ta the British beni- tage did what they then tbaugbt was neccssary ta kcep it from bcing overthnown. In the process the two races n Canada votcd more nearly as solid blocs than at any other unie. Wtb anc exception Prench Canada bas maintained that solidity at evcry subsequent edcc- tion. The resuit bas been a vin- tuai dictatorsip-but in the ne- gative, sense. The Dominion of Canada bas been able ta do only those things ap provcd by French Canada. Our constitutional re- lationships were found Abe hapclessly out of date, especially whcn the economic systcrn was beset by the great depression. Our dominion-provincial relation- ship was sa obviausly antiquated that the Rowcli-Sirois Commis- sion was set up ta deal with it. The fatal flaw in the work of that body was that, because of Que- bec, the attemptcd solution had ta be so indirect-and the treat- ment of provinces so different- that its rejectian was a foregone conçiusion. Now again we approach a warse war cisis with broadly the sanie background as that of 1917. Un- less ail signs are false, the British armies will soon be beavily, des- pcrately engaged witb Germany, and ber allies. The history of this war s that the longer the luils and inactivities the more fierce canccntrated and funiaus is the fighting whcn t cames. Our Canadiaux active army will surely be engaged not znany montbs bence. And wbcn it s, wc arc going ta have in Canada exact]ýT the same decision ta make as wc had in 1917. We arc gaing to bave ta decide whcther those boys wbo have volunteeréd ta fight Hitler, and who are actually n the line fac- ing the foc, arc gaing ta be icft without an assured supply of re- inforcements. That is wby, in the truest sense this is a testing time for Canada. For if there are obviaus dangers in a dlean cut spiit betwen the two sections of the people of Canada there are far greater dan- gers i a Hitler victory. Ail Uic platitudes about Cana- dian unity will mean less than nothing if the pnice of maintain- ing tbat so-calicd unity is in- action, or insufficient action. in the way for the maintenance of freedoni. If Hitler wins we al lose- and we lose ail. That s the mast important fact in the world today-and one which my obser- vation in 'Canada telle-me la-not- even sensed by the vast mai oity. 1941 CONSCRIPTON Wbcre conscription for this War THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO ut Philpott ELECTRIC SHAVERS Hgth Speed RAND SHAVER ln leather case SCHICK SHAVER (Captain) ..$9.95 (Flyer) . .$15-75 SHAVEMASTER $19.75 IFOIR MEN Focusslng Eveready Spot Lîght .... $1.25 P.nlight ....... 75cý Bmush, Comb and MIrror Sets $4.50 up Sec them today è'w - He will love a smart uew Waterman p e n sud penoîl set. Guarsu- tee& At the Camera ounter -Brownien, Kok,I oeuipamt f 0r thl e eamera fan. BTMAS CARDS - SMlILES 'NI CHUCKLES - BEVERAGES C.N.R. Tckejs WED fIENGLAND IwMl have ta differ from th at I1917 is in stcope. It will have Sdo severai things, as follows: 1. Provide labor for farme engaged ini vital production Sfoods-which are flrst lime of d fnce here and cverywbere. *2. Sce that no man or womi engaged in production of vit war munitions is releascd f army service unless trained su! stitute is ready to replace him. 3. Prevent cnlistment of mi *and women with unusual bar obligations. Present policy imiting allowanccs for depený ents is step in this direction-bi flot enough. 4 . Provide 'men and wom( needed for army, navy anda force as well as for all industi and public service-on basis fitness to serve. 1917 ACT I was anc who came from Libenal family, who cast my fir vote in Prance for conscription. did not. know anyone in Franc who voted otherwisc, and for ol vious reasons. We who had bee fighting the German for a lon .while knew bow hard it was gc ing ta be to, beat tbem. We kne, that unless steady reinforcemenl came from home we would nc only have ta bold our sharec the Une, but hold it wlth strengt dwindiing daily. The saine sentiment animate our families at home-as it mu right now animate thc New ZeE landiers who have seen their me folk take the bumps in Greeci Crete, and now Libya. After the war I lived for man years in Quebec-invariabiy ai tendcd clection meetings, .by wa of duty, and was rathen amuseda how liberai speakers magnifie "conscription" as a national crinm against French Canada. W i t: cvery speech at every election i: the twenties it became a grea hideous monster in the mindsc the French Canadians. In fairrici ta that generation af politiciansj should be added that nonec them foresaw Hitier-none ex pected another world war. But the fact is that Worl War II is here. And whiie peopl can argue truly that we wouJi have been better off without cor scription in the last 'war-iti anything but certain that bistor: wiil repeat itseif. If the war had gone -on i 1919 and 1920 as it well migi have conscription would hav gone down in bistory not as national unpleasantness buta the very lif e preserver of ou armny overseas. If anc would be succcssful 1 the future, let him make thc mos of the present.-Mary Baker Edd: For truth and duty it is ever th fitting time; who awaits until cir cumstances completely favor hi undertaking, wil neyer accon plish anything-Lutber. It is in man and not in his cir cunistances that the secret of hi destiny resides.-Carjyle. Every duty brings its peculia, delight, every denial its appropri ate compensation, every thougl its recompense, every cross il crown; pay gocs with perforn ance as effect with causc.-Miic may. 0111-0Ci Ki Kii en Gnr. Allun E. Rowe ng An interesting letter appeared 0o in last week's Statesman from eW Gnr. Rowe to his mother, Mrs. It Vera Rowe, Newcastle. Aflin*has lot been overseas since last spring of and recently married an English h girl. His brother Howard went overseas in Dec. 1940 at the age d of 18 and has lately gone on draft st to an unnamed destination, pas- ýa sibly North Africa. As in the last en war, Newcastle mothers and sons e, can be depended upon, early in the conflict, to step into Canada's 'Y first line of defence along the Lt shores of Britain. 'y PAGE THREE Capt. Elmore Plslpott Lieut. Robb James IEmphasizes Science ln Modern Warfare The Cleveland, Ohio, Plain Dealer of Oct. 18. contains an article by a feature writer, whicb emphasizes the importance of science in modern warf are. He describes his impressions after a visit ta The Gage Laboratory, Case School of Applied Science, under 'the War Department's Ordnance D1,istrict at Cleveland. During his tour of the scbool he Interviews Lieut. Robb W. James, of the ,technîcal division, whose work be describes in technical terms Lieut. James is a son of Dr. M. A. James, New York, and a nephew of the editor of The Statesman. The article describes the school and iaboratory as equippcd with $700,000 worth of delicate guage-tcsting machines and equipment. It is the basis of the standardization and accuracy necessary in Uic ,vast mass produc- tion of guns that must fire accur- ately and in the shelis that must bit their mark. Inspectors use more than 10.000 guages in their tests and these must be accurate ta, an infinitessimai dcgree. The thickness of a cigarette pap- Ser is considercd by the chief of the testing and attaining accuracy. An department, as a big dimension in electrically-controlled precision, iength-measuring machine is sa sensitive that the operatar must Place a metal shield between to keep the body heat fram affecting dimensions. Many instances of such accuracy could be related, which, ta the layman would seem, almost unbelievabie. Lieut. James pointed out that anc defence order involving 25,- 000,000 ammunition parts, would ~'equire 125 complete sets of gages. To keep up with demand for measuring toals, the ordnance district has on orden about $500,- 000 worth of these devices. No attempt is made funther ta en- large upon the technical terms and descriptions containcd in this interesting accaunt. But it is a matter for congratulation that the son of another Oid Durham Boy bas made good in a big way and that bis technical training may be used in this crisis of the world's history. spiral of inflation feeds on îtself. To prevent; the spiral it must be broken off sharpiy-of this I am profoundly canvinced. Co-operation Needed The problem can be stated very simply. Here is a retail pnice. When that. retail pnice was figur- cd out, the cost of manufacturing, processing and delivering the goods ta the retailers was so much, and since then the cast of replacing the goods bad nisen very rapidly. Consequcntly, if retailers' pnices are ta be held, every one back from the retailer to the pnimary producer must accept a lower price-must accept bis share of .the added cast, s0 that the retail- er may reccive bis replacements at a cost which will enable bim ta absorb only bis own additional costs in the farm of labor or other overhead and still seli the goods at a reasonable profit. This problem of controlling in- flation we are attacking is basi- cally a problem in human rela- tions and where good-will, co- operation and above aIl, under- standing exist, cannot long re- main unsoived. Value of thse Press That is the tremendous part the press can play in this campaign- the education of public opinion- the education of Mr. John Public ta a realization that he and his family are the soldiers in this bat- tle.ý Through bis newspaper be can be aroused first ta a sense of his danger and, second, to the means aof avoiding it. This is the most important im- mediate aspect of the Canadian war effort. It should be entitled. I behieve, ta the generous use of your space for. news articles, for editorials, for feature stonies and for discussion and criticism of this board. I say ta you frankly that with- out the support of the press-I mean in the dissemination of in- formation and nat in any slavish or partisan sense-without the support of the press, we could noti hope ta succeed in this plan. I[nform Public We nced a public opinion thor- oughly and rapidly informed of the basic prablem and of the ne- solution naw ta be cnforced. Only the press can inform it. Only thc press can tell the littie man what inflation means ta him and how NEWSPAPERMEN CALLED TO OTTAWA ýt (Continued tram page 1) ssec that Uic public undcrstands Uic issues involvcd and that t cari bcst do so by getting aven ta the -public just what inflation is and how it works. jThree Choices e It bas been said again and agai, i and I repeat it because t is a - basic point, Uiat there s na moncy smagic whicb can 'be applicd ta, y the need of wantimc finance. There arc but threc chices-we Dmust pay for aur war effort direct- tly by means of taxation, or by eborrowing the real savings of the a people, or by a process of infla- stion. r The first two mctbods have been couragcously applied and, couragcausly acccptcd by the Ca- nadian people, but despite every effort the f act is that the tremen- dous specd at which we have built up a war machine and Uic enor- 1mouis effort we bave put into -doing so bave made it impossible sta, adjust these palicies suffîcient& *ly rapldly ta recapturc the cxcess purchasing power which the Gov- Sernment bas released. Whcn the war began wc bad rlarge idie resaunces of labor and -matenials. Sa long as these exist- ,t cd aur problemi was ta put tbcmn ta wonk and ta that end a deliber- -ate expansin.ist moncy palicy was floc. The nation brougbt into being by public expenditure a large ncw purchasing power ansd this in turn cncouraged thc rapid employmcnt of ai idie ne- saurces. Labor Scarce 0 wc arc nean the end of orlbrpower sud wc arc near- ing the full utilizatian of some of o ur matenials. Wc are praducing Imore goads than even, but more of thcm are gaing into the war, whcre they cannot be uscd by Uic people. If tle people try ta spend as much af their incarne as farmerly, tbcy wili bid against one another and against the long purse of the iGovcrnmnt for the limitcd sup- ply of goods,.in a kind of national auction and pnices will go up. They will go up crratically and unevcnly, cncating grave social injustices and public unrest. Thus the inflatianary technique, if you want ta call it that-the deliberate creation of more pur- cbasing powr-was a useful ser- vant in promoting Uic production of goods at the bcginning of war, but now, whcn virtuaily ail aur productive resources arc bcing used ta the full, or will . be uscd ta Uic full shontly, the inflation- any technique can become a fear- fui master, unless it is curbcd. People Uuaware The mess Uic worid s in today bears tcstimony ta my case, for 1nothing can be clearen than that Uic German inflation, arising out of the last war, was dincctly ne- sponsibie for the rse of Hitler sud the gâng of cririnals who rode ta contrai out of the bittcrncss, dislocation and coliapse whicb t cngcnered. Taday thene are many people who refuse ta beleve even An the face of a 29 per cent increase in whoies!iiicpnices sud a 14.6 per cent increase in living casts that inflation s upon us. They refuse ta recognize Uic meaning of the stupendous increase in Govern- ment spending involving nearlyC 56 per cent of national incarne ast compancd with 28 pen cent pre-t war. These are Uic people you ut wake up-thcsc people must be told-the cianion cry must go ail E across tbis country-the encmy is at the gate. Delay Fatalt Inflation Uiivcs on dclays ands balf-measunes. It la a sound ap- è ynec latian of Uiat fundamentali zatwbicb is behinid Uic Govcnn-% menVs policy cxpressed in Uic maximum pnîccu regulations. 1 That policy says slmply andf definitely: pnices must nat be ai-t lowed ta increase and after Dcc. r 1 the pnice level of the basic per- a iod, Sept. 15 ta Oct. il, must t prevail.1 It la a pronauncement uncqui- I vocal in its slmpliclty, it s a C polcy wblch calîs for beraic mca- sures ta enfonce andi administer, but It la the only plcy wbichs bas a chanuce of success.r Any alternative In Uic form of t selective contrai or an attempt at l a graduai stop is daomed ta fail-c ure for Uic simple reason that they GOODYEAR and prolonged applause, closed mas cheer for these children that EN E T IN E Tthe general program. th a , lary was started. By thls Directoi Honored children wiil be expressed to the (Coninue fro pag 1)The Patriotic Finale, a military children of Great Britain in a (Cotinod 'fom age1> panoramic, with Red Cross nurse, tangible manner. in a blue Mex. outfit, with an f lag, torch, and every service re- Ail donations to the children'a accordion as big as himself and presented, gave tap and song fund will be acknowledged in a encores galore. Another boy, Ai- salutes to England, Ircîand, Scot- special column in The Evening fred Revington, age 9 or 10, land, Canada, enlarged into a Telegram, and the money will be dressed in Tux. and complete con- full throated chorus, God Save sent to the Lord Mayor's Nation- fidence, sang "Heigh Ho Corne to The King. Tired boys and girls ai Air Raid Distress Pund, where the Fair" in a soprano-tenor that had done their best and the audi- it wil be turned over ta the Wo- lifted the rafters to "'scads" of ence chorused a "corne again"' and men's Voluntary Services, who appluse.meant every word of it. Included will arrange the detals for applause. i this patriotic ensemble were Christmas cheer for the children Sonitrsatwo young ladies not on the regu- in Great Britain. Eevén year old Elsie Smart, de- lar programme, the Misses Mahala licately costumed, dainty and and Joan Spence, who, with Can -_................._...... composed, brought down the adian Seaman O'Hare, home on house with hier acrobatic number furlough, lent their presence and and came back for encores despite voices cffectively. frock and bands being ruined and smeared with stage grime. Pif- Reg. Harding, on behaîf of ail, teen year old Eleanor Wager, with invited Mrs. Durno to take a bow stage, did a tap-dance, with a tune foes h o ra i ad______ in every tap and applause for and wholly deserved it, and in a TREATRÈ _____ ever bow Strng, lear st neat speech thanked one and ail. evey ow Srogclar sirring Prior to returning home, lunch BOWMANVILLE solos, "Tell Me That You Love was servcd in the counicil cham- Me," and "Ireland Mugt Be Hea- berudrcpbectrn ot yen," were the contributions of ,udrcaal aern ot 12 year old Thelma Beach. Nx esses, Misses Georgie Somerscales act was delayed by hier curtainanEyteCer Thurs., Fni., Sat. calîs, and later on she sang hier DEC. 4,5 encore as a "request" number.4,, Ten year aid Ethel Fisher sang CHILDREN IN CANADA SAVE Yankee-Doodle and did a tap S0 SANTA GOES T.O BRITAIN Double Feature Pýrograz with unusual rhythm; clever girl. Probably the "scream-hit" of the Contribute To Special Fund For I evening was Ruth Legassicke in Young Britons Through Facili- UliCettin 'el g chckrd ighman be- ties of Telegramx B.W.V.F. s Feling rube" hat, always a bridesmaid sarn but neyer a bride, who sang em- The pennies, nickels and dArnes Merle Oberon and phatic protest at fate and pleaded of Canadian children will be the Melvyn Douglas for one more kiss. She was 9 means whereby eiose to hall a and years old and got tired out re- million children of Great Britain sponding ta encore:. will. mark the Christmas season D.H ld i' Amateur Ho-Down thisyear. D.g dv l First break in the program came "Christmas Cheer for British aan Dy solo, forgot his music. Reg. Hard- Children" is the name of an aux- sarn ing filled in with a hoe-down and gram British War Victixs' Fund, inlBryoe e ye won the first and last Bronx of introduced over CFRB by Hý Loe aryoe e ye the evening. "Red" Poster to his Crowu Brand and Lamaine Day Next came Rita Genise and Sports Club sponsored by the _____________ Carmel Griffin, 8 year old pro- Canada Starch Company. teges of teacher Maida Howey, in Prom now until Christmas, do- M n T team dancing to applause and re- nations may be made to the Mon, ues., Wed. peat. Then Jackie Rennie opened "Christmas Cheer for British DEC. S. 9 10 the second canto of the evening Children" auxiliary, and this O'NU with Harry Lauder songs. Ber- money will go overseas through DNTMS time tosthe fat il o ac issi ban hewil be arfarked ..VforchldenbutI L nard o teste i ossack s4lsibatheailties omrkf or BW.V.F butSo Ends vuriRigmi dance, and later did an acrobatic only. There wiil be no adn. inistra- which taok more grime off the tion costs in connection with the A cait of Stars floor. 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