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For which they did manage to give out a few grunts, might, with imag pation, be interpreted as signs of but were followed by Partner --""What you done any?" "A few which verbal which asking Haven't appreciation about peaches? Jars y I replied. "There arc some in the locker." A little later Bob looked over the "fruit" of my labour and sad, "ls that all the paiches you've got?" Reluctantly I adnutted nt at the same time | felt something should be done about it or 1 would be forever after disgraced. also wWas-- » » » So the next day I bought ano- ther basket of peaches -- since a bountiful ration board had allow- ed us extra sugar -- but when it comes to scalers, that was some- thing else again. Sure there were a few empty jars on my shelves but there was a chip out of this onc and a nick out of that which seduced the number of usable scal- ers to exactly two. It was then I found scalers in stores simply didn't exist. And why? Because the manufacture of glass had been practically stopped for lack of a chemical compound used in its manufacture, This chemical is no lenger procurable because the one and only plant throughout the length and breadth of Canada which produces it, is out on strike -- and has been for nearly three months. » N » So it looks as if you and I and Mrs. John Public cannot fool our- selves into thinking that industrial strikes are no concern of ours, They are definitely the concern of everyone -- but what we can do to help this deplorable state of affairs, dear only knows. However, no situation is entirely bad. We lcarn something good even from strikes. We find out the hard way what goes into the mak- ing of many everyday articles. The connection between the textile wMrike and shortage of certain nec- By Gwendoline P. Clarke of GINGER FARM . . . . essary garments is obvious but how many of us stopped to consi- der what went into the making of glass? But we lcarn in a hurry when fruit spoils for lack of scal- ers; or when milk isn't delivered unless an empty milk bottle is left on the step. » LJ » We find then that necessity is not only the mother of invention, it is also the foster-mother of en- forced economy. When sealers cannot be bought we forage through out-of-the-way shelves and cupboards and bring forth many forgotten jars used for something other than their real purpose. Yes, it is surprising what we can do without when we have to -- or when we get mad enough Honestly, the price of some things makes me so mad I just sce red. For instance the other day 1 noticed a small tea-kettle in a store -- the kind which. before the war, we thought indispensable for quick boiling and which used to scl for about a quarter. This one was more than three times that amount and was ag thin as paper. I put it back on the shelf and said, "Boiling water in an open kettle 1s still good enough for me." But even at that 1 wouldn't have minded the price so much if the tin and the workmanship had beén of good quality. 1 feel like wear- ing old clothes until they drop off my back for the same reason, . . * We were just as well off when wages were lower and goods cheaper, As for a 40-hour week -- what are people going to do with their time? Of course higher wages are needed when there is more leisure time -- it takes mon: ey to pay for amusements to fill the gap. The simple pleasures of home life are not commonly appre- ciated these days. * » » I like to hear Partner hold forth on farming versus industry, 'The other day two young fellows drove in and wanted to buy the farm! They had been working in some kind of a plant, thought things over and decided that the govern- ment just about gave everything to the farmers on a silver platter. In which case I wonder why the farmers out West are out on a de- livery strike and why all this agi- tation for continuance of the milk subsidy. This weck should bring interesting developments. Highlights of the News | Fa.mcrs' Strike Spreading Officials o1 the Alberta Farmers' Union last week claimed the 15- day-old delivery strike of all farm produce by 20,000 union members had grown into a "general protest" by Alberta farmers for higher produce prices. Theye estimated that an aaditional 40,000 of Al- berta's 97,000 farmers had joined in the fight to obtain Federal rec- ognition of A.F.U. demands for parity prices. : "The support wc are getting in Alberta is a w ay beyond the strength of the A F.U," R. J. Bou- tillier, union sccretary said Mean- while fresh reports from Saskat- chewan told of growing support from the United Farmers of Can- ada, who «claim membership of some 30,000 farmers confined to Saskatchewan A Warning An imernational committee com- posed of leaders in politics, diplo- macy, science, education and eco- nomy in Britain, France, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and the Nether- Jands warned that the world was again setting out on the same roads that had led to war before. It sup- ported Winston Churchill's recom- mendation for a United States of Europe Jews To Submit Plan A Jewish plan for Palestine will be submitted informally to the London conference on the Holy Land, a Jewish agency spokesman said. He said the Jews would urge Britain to implement the princi- ple of partition embodied in the 1937 report of the Peel Commis- Jon and also give the Jews the egeb or South Country area. Un- der the British-American experts' secommendation for partition, sub- mitted) this year, the Negeb area Poy he set aside as British-con- trolled area. ~ ---- To Succeed Wallace t W. Averill Harriman, United $tates Ambassador to Britain and former envoy to Russia, has been aamed to succeed Henry A, Wal- lace as Secretary of Commerce. Herriman was a close advisor of President Roosevelt at Yalta; Ca- eablanca and other conferences, ---- | ' Mariners Back To Work C.1.O. mariners filed back to work on ships in New York har- bor after membership meetings there and in other United States' East and Gulf ports voted an end to their maritime strike on the basis of an arbitration award es- tablishing an industry-wide prin- ciple of wage parity. As the ports of States looked sumption of operations following the teen-day strike, it was predicted that New York Harbor would feel the effects of the walkout for ten days. A backlog of 11,000 carloads of freight, averaging between thirty-five and forty tons each. has accumulated during the work stop- page. Only 1,000 carloads are handled in a normal work day. the United forward to a re- full-scale shipping Care of Europe's Refugees Director General La Guardia ~f UNRRA, in a personal letter to every member of the United Na- tions Economic and Social Coun- cil, urged greater speed in organi- zing a new agency to care for the 800,000 refugees and displaced per- gons in Europe when UNRRA ends. He declared that "danger- ous" conditions and a re-birth of Nazism would result if the Coun- cll failed in ite task. Truman Supports Byrnes United States Secretary of Com: merce Henry A. Wallace sent his resignation to the White House shortly after President Truman disclosed at a press conference that he had asked for it. President Truman asked Mr, Wallace to resign to end an uproar over American foreign policy. ' Members of the United States Cabinet serve only at the Presi- dent's pleasure -- hence Mr, Wal- . lage had no cholce but to resign. r. Truman firmly and formally declared to a press conference that there is to be no change In the government's foreign policy and that he has "complete confidence" In State Secretary Byrnes and the delegation representing the United States at the Paris Peace Confer- ence, seven- | GEARED TO EARS Fine precision-machined parts, ori- ginally used in bomb sights and other military devices, have been made into jewelery Buffed down and gold-plated, brass sprocket chains become chokers and brace- lets, as do aluminum and bronze bushings. Earrings are made from fine coiled springs, gear wheels and bushings. .At .top, .Ellen . Brooks models earrings made of aluminum sector gears, shown in close-up below. Farm Incomes Greatly Exceed Operating Costs The latest figures issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics pro- vide a rough measurement hetween the present income of Canadian farmers and their costs of opera- tion, reports the Winnipeg Free Press. The new statistics reflect the large gains of Canadian agri- culture since the beginning of the war -- gains in price which far ex- ceed increased operating costs. The average cost of operation on the Canadian farm, as estimated by the Bureau of Statistics is 38.6 per cent higher now than it was on the average between 1935 and 1939. These costs take into consideration farm implements, building mater- ials, gasoline, oil and grease, feed, fertilizer, binder twine, seed, hard- ware, tax rates, interest rates and farm wages. As against an increased operat- ing cost of 38.6 per cent, the in- crease in the price of farm pro- ducts on the average throughout Canada is reckoned at 82.7 per cent. Planes Fly Almost As Fast As Sound Only 40 years ago the spced per- mitted motor cars on the streets of cities, towns and villages in On- tario was 10 miles per hour -- 15 miles in the country. But vehicles were already travelling at high speed in special trials, says The Toronto Star. A railway train had made a short distance record of 120 miles an hour in 1901, and a motor car was to attain the same speed during a trial in 1908, But men took to the air and flew at speeds hitherto unknown. A Gloster Meteor has just established a world record of 617 miles an hour. That is better than 10 miles a minute. It is better than 000 feet per second, and sound (in air) travels only 1,000 feet per second. Man is traveling in the air al- most as fast as sound docs, and no one can tell what further speed the future holds. 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The first step toward a return to prewar white bread for the people of Great Britain was taken recenfly when the Ministry of Food an- nounced a reduction in the extrac tion rate of flour from 90 per cent Every fall the story is the same; to 85 per cent, it was learned. of the men who go blithely out to get a little recreation in field and The result of this easing of re- strictions, believed in authoritative woodland, a certain number will circles to be a preliminary to the die 'because of their own or end of Britain's two-month-old other's carelessness. bread rationing, will be felt almost immediately in baker shops Probably there is not much throughout the country, where the loaf has become darker since the end of the war. A1 Quality 7 that can be done to remedy mat- ters. 'The nunting grounds avail able to ordinary city folks are usually so crowded that accidents are, as you might say, fairly beg- ging to happen. 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