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THURSDAY, MAY 11TH, 1944 (By Jiim Greenblatt) An interesting sidelight on price conâ€" trol is one which crops up in the Anâ€" nual report of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and which we pass on as food for thought, not propaganda. Just how do family budgets fare when war hits this country? In this houseâ€" wives are directly concerned.. Without a control organization during the last war, consumers found that in March, 1919 it took $1.54 to buy what one dollar bought in 1914. Today, with price control, it only takes $1.18 to buy what a dollar bought in 1939. Each taxpayer‘s share in the operation costs of this government Board amounts to about 10 cents a month. Total adâ€" ministrative expenditures from April 1st to December 31st, 1943, were $9,901,â€" 439. s l â€" Canadian householders will be able to toast their toes in comfort next winâ€" ter if they coâ€"operate as they did last, says Canada‘s coal controller, who has given out a tentative forecast of what you can expect for the 1944â€"45 heating season Canada will get about the same amount of U.S. anthracite as last year, but incoming Welsh coal will show a reduction and maybe they‘ll have to divert some U.S. anthracite, normally used in Ontario and Quebec, to the Maritimes for consumers whose equipâ€" ment is not suitable for burning Mariâ€" time coal. Supplies of Canadian and U.S..coke will be about the same, but lower quantities of low volatile bitumâ€" inmnous (Pocahontas type) in household sizes, is predicted. In New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI., enough Mariâ€" time coal will be handy for those using bituminous, and sufficient anthracite and coke will be available to tide them over the colder months of the year. With the final estimates out now for the 1942 wheat crop of Canada a lot of folks will be surprised to know that it wasn‘t the biggest crop in history ever produced in Canada, but second best, for in 1928 the total harvest was 566,â€" 726.000 bushels. Final figure for 1942 1s 556.684,090~-bushels. Of this amount 529 million bushels was produced in the three Prairie Provinces. Most of the A WEEKLY EDITOR S AT â€" "writing down" was done in Saskatcheâ€" wan where the crop failed to entirely measure up to indication as of harvest time, 1942. A great dust control campaign is beâ€" ing carried out in Canadian Army camps, following the highly effective experiment carried out in Camp Borâ€" den, Ontario, last winter. It proved so successful in immobilizing germs of airâ€" borne diseases such as pneumonia, tuâ€" berculosis, _ scarilet â€" fever, _ tonsillitis, mumps, that Respiratory Diseases dropâ€" ped 50 to 65 per cent. This should have far reaching effects in peaceâ€"time preventative measures. "R.D." casuâ€" alties in Canadian military hospitals in Canada alone, have been averaging 35,000 a year, costing the taxpayer about nine million dollars annually, In 1942 alone the loss to the army amounted to 500,0600 manâ€"days, enough to fight the whole Canadian part of the Sicilian campaign and 200,000 manâ€"days left over, Full time sugar rations are not com»â€" ing back immediately after the war, according to Sir William Rook, British sugar controlléer who was in Canada conferring with Wartime Prices and Trade Board officials recen®;. The view that all that is lacking is enough shipping space to transport sugar, he takes as erroneous. He warns that Ottawa Champion Rivetters at the Masseyâ€"Harris aircraft plant in Weston, Ont., makers of wings for Mosâ€" quito, one of the war‘s greatest planes, Mrs. Jean simpson and Mrs. Margaret Carnahan can throw Written specially for the waeekly newspaners of Canade CANADIAN LADY RIVETTNG CHAMPIONS NEARLY DO UBLE SPEED OF UNCLE SAM‘S BEST world supplies of sugar are so‘ short that the present supply is insufficient to meetâ€"essential: needs without strict rationing. : j Whenever you see bananas these daysâ€"we said, wheneverâ€"you ‘can. rest assured there is a ceiling price on them. Now the retail price is set at 15 cents a pound for the West, Northern Ontario, northern and ‘the > Maritimes provinces;> 14 cents for: southern Onâ€" tario and Quebec. : ' Here‘s an interesting breakdown of the chief> racial origins of : the: Canaâ€" dian people, a grand total of 11,506,655; There are: 1,267,402 of Irish origin; Scandinavians 244,603; Indian‘ 118,316; German 464,682; French 3,483,038; Netâ€" herlands 212,863,; Jewish, 170,241; Ukâ€" ranian, 305,929; Asiatic 74,064; English 2,968,402; Russian 83,708;.Scottish 1,â€" 403,974; Polish 167,485; Itahan 112,625. Of the total 5,715,904 hail the British Isles, 5,526,964 European and 267,787 listed as "Others." The Department of Labour at Ottawa makes it clear in the plea for teachers to take essential work during vacation time that there‘s no intention of interâ€" fering with those rarrying on further courses to qualify for their profession. It is the others. Many have had exâ€" perience in farming, which would help the situation greatly, but there also other essential jobs available through Sselective Service. There seems to have been some misâ€". understanding about the incorporation. of cost . of .living bonus in basic. wage rates. Employers subject to Wartime Wages Control Order have to estabâ€" lish a new wage rate ‘inclusive of the cost ~of living bonus previous paid, commencing with the first payroll afâ€" ter or on F‘ebruary 15, last. These same are also required to pa ya cost of livâ€" ing bonus of 60 cents a week starting â€"first = m on cor after August . 14, 1942, to all the adult male employees <and :other employees earning $25 or more a week and 2.4% of the weekly wage rate to male minors and female employees receiving less that $25 a week; and that beginning with first payroll on or after Novemâ€" ber 15, 1943, it became obligatory for employers to increase this bonus to 95 cents a week or 3.8% of the weekly wage rate. What happens to all the men examâ€" ined for military duty? The Minister of Labour had to answer that question in the House of Canada has had 1,014,498 men medically examâ€" ined and of this number 452,348, were "A", or fit for front line duty. _ 123,364 were "B" men, fit for general duty; the C‘s fit for home service numbered 130,â€" 316 while 23,415 were graded D, temâ€" porarily unfit for duty, and 285,055 were categorized "E" unsuitable for service anywhere in any capacity. Of course the war has made for the bettered business ‘conditions. The Doâ€" minion Bureau of Statistics . Report showing that 1943 saw a new low in commercial failures in Canada since records were first kept, from the beâ€" ginning of the century. There were only 314 failures reported under the Bankruptcy and Winding Up â€"Act. as compared with say, 1,392 in 1939, the year the war started. Canada shipped a lot of merchandise out in export during March, a total of $282.682,000 in value. Where did it all go to2? ‘ We found the analysis to be apâ€" proximately this: The United Kingdom got $110,362,000 in supplies this month; to Italy went $25,350,000; China, $3,â€" 611,000; British India $6,939,000; Briâ€" tish South Africa $2,.703,000, Egypt $9,â€" 565,000] and Russia ©#$2,968,000. It is inâ€" teresting: to note: that shipments to Russia doubled over the same month last year, and that a year ago exports to China were nil. The Canadian Federation of Agriculâ€" ture warns farmers everywhere against high pressure salesmen who allege to have giltâ€"edged stocks and bonds to sell, a number of these coâ€"operative in setup, as bait. Closest scrutiny is adâ€" vised, and that‘s good advice. home Put Victory Pirst and buy your share of bonds; bring our lads and lassies rivets into the wings at the rate of 80 a minute Mrs. Carnahan‘s husband is with the 48th Highâ€" landers overseas and two brothers are in the army. Germans Collecting Stamps for Safety as Well as Hobby Post Stamps Have More Possible Value Than Their. Paper Money. l Sso many people have collcctedu stamps as a hobby that it is difficult | for them to think of it as anything else. Of course, there are a few who‘ have made a business of stamp collectâ€"| ing and perhaps some have even atâ€" tempted to make it a racket, though stamp collectors are not usually gullâ€" ible. It is safe to say that the averâ€" age boy at one time or another has | been a stamp collector. At one time‘ there was so much interest in Timâ€"| mins in stamp collecting that The, Advance considered it necessary to run | a special weekly column for stamp collectors, just as similar columns were given to the Boy Scouts, the Girl: .Guides and other institutions, and to health, good food, beauty hmts houseâ€" } | ~hold affairs and so on. ! | l Because of all this there wfll mo{ doubt be special interest here in theI underlying plans of the Germans in! adopting stamp collecting on a largei All efforts of the German authorities to curb the plans have' been in vain, The Germans, for once,. have shown a determination to go on stamp collecting, despite all the "verâ€" botens" against it. The idea underlyâ€" ing this German adaptation of the stamp collecting hobby may be sumâ€" med up in the idea that it is an atâ€" tempt to save something from the wreck. The Germans apparently are convinced that there will be no normal forms of wealth after the war, and that the "paper money" of Germany will be worse than valueless in the markets of the world. In search for something of value that could be easily hidden and transported the Nazis hit upon collections of stamps as the ideal way. The whole idea is fully dealt with in an article by D. S. R. in The Torâ€" onto Telegram of recent date. Here is the article in full:â€" Stamp Collecting Engages Germans (By D. S. . People who have never felt the lure of stamp collecting are prone to wonder why adults especially can succumb to what seems such a senseless hobby. Such critics are unfortunate in never having experienced the joys of philateâ€" ly, which never quite die out,. Even grownups who abandoned the hobby years ago are apt to hold it in nostalgic regard. Stamp collecting, which had its inâ€" ception about one hundred years ago, is worldâ€"wide today. In happier times French devotees and dealers used to foregather of a Sunday on the Champs Elysees in Paris. King Edward VII had a marvellous collection which he passed on to George V. an enthusiastic, Many famous folk have gloried in their stamp albums, Stamps can run into big money. News comes that the Germans, losâ€" ing faith in the value of the reichâ€" mark, are investing in stamps. They feel that whatever happens stamps will be valuable and perhaps at higher prices than today,. Like gems, stamps can be easily concealed and, when the time comes, smuggled out of the counâ€" try. The German authorities have had scant success in trying to control the scant succe traffic. "Millions Flee in Stamps" was the recent heading in a Vienna newspaper. The trade it said centred there and at Prague, the buying being done chiefly by monâ€"collectors. The paper points by nmonâ€"collectors. The paper points out that stamps which sold â€" at 150 marks in Bohemia and Moravia now cost 450 marks. Germany‘s 1933 comâ€" memorative "Winter Relief" souvenir sheet of four lowâ€"priced stamps, which sold in post offices originally for 2.40 marks the sheet, brought 500 marks last year. Today it sells for 1,400 marksâ€"or over 580 times its primary cost. Needless to say, stamp trading with the enemy is strictly forbidden among the Allies. Once in the British Museum the writer accidentally came upon a magâ€" nificent collection which had been donated to the nation by â€"a British How stamps Advance 17“‘(7! I;‘b;tér.‘lveft;.”and Vivian' C'h-lumsk§ of Consolidated Aircraft at Fort Worth, Texas, â€" Speed is 45 rivets a minute. NOT QUITE AS FAST, apparenly, but still plenty speedy are Virginia M.P. back in the early 1890‘s. It hangs in glass panels, as do the stamps in the collection at the Royal Ontario Museum. It is the envy and despair of philatelists who view it. Among the many items it contains a dazzling agâ€" gregation of rare Americans. Some of them are the local "postmaster" stamps issued in the 1840‘s. One can‘t recall the specimens shown but such stamps are quoted in the latest New York catalogue at prices ranging from $500 to $15,000 apiece. Find in YToronto Attic Its Canadian section is undoubtedly unique, for it contains sometimes sevâ€" eral specimens of the early varieties. There are about four of the famous 10 penny blacks of 1851, perfect speciâ€" mens. One such was sold in Toronto ten years ago for $750â€"today they are priced at $1,500. These stamps were once on sale at the Toronto post office, but the government, lowering the rates, called most of them in agnd destroyed them. Only 52 are known to exist. I collected stamps in the days when boys sold them from sheets in Toronto schools ‘"on commission." The hinge had just begun to supersede the crude pasting into albums. About that time Victory Loan Headquarters, 39 Third Ave. You Read or Heard About the Case of "A"" and "B" It Will INTEREST You VICTORY BOND â€" Bank Interest Year WHY BANK IT? _ BOND iT and $ 100 200 500 1000 i We spent delightful hours ransackâ€" ‘ing the treasureâ€"ours was the sort of thrill that one cannot get in these days, when every hole and corner has been searched. Some of the old Canâ€" adians and Americans reyvealed were \ even then worth half a dollar, but toâ€" lday! There were unperforated Jacâ€" | ques Cartiers now selling at $35 each. | We gleaned a goodly crops of Prince. \ Alberts in various colors and denoâ€" minationsâ€"some of them now up to $40. The green ‘"sixpence sterling" ‘, Queen Victoria‘s head abpunded. There \ were lots of beaver stampg, 3 pence and | 5 cents unperforated and unperferâ€" | : ated in several shades. Brown 10 cent and red 5 cent stamped envelopes were numerous and the "Big" Queen / Victorias of several vintages between Look This Over some boy friends discovered treasure trove in the attic of their Toronto abode. This philatelic gold mine conâ€" sisted of two trunks crammed with old letters that had been addressed to their late grandfather, a distinguished public man in Ontario. It has been told before but the stoxy seems worth repeating. Gold Mine in stamps 1.50 3,.00 7.30 15.00 the ‘sixties and cearly ‘cighties Oone can‘t recall discovering a 10 penny black. Perchance someone else had gleaned this stamp, which had. already been valuable for many years, but I remember with a pang two unâ€", perforated American stamps of 1846 issue. Bluish in shade, they bore Washington‘s head and the figure 0 cents. Being a pal I was offered the , twain for 10 centsâ€"which I lacked. day or two later, having earned that| sum by cleaning off our snow, I went back to purchase. Alas, they had been| lost. Today the catalogue show‘s seven variations of this stampâ€"ranging in price from $50 to $500. Collect Albums, Catalogues, Etc. In the "gay nineties" few young Toronto philatelists knew much about such refinements as "laid paper," "wove paper," "watermarks" and the fine differences in shading which someâ€" times make vast differences in valucs.i The cult of collecting "covers"â€"leavâ€". ing the stamp on the entire envelope to add authenticityâ€"had not started. SBo we just tore the stamps off and scissored out the envelope stamps. Where, oh where are those stamps toâ€" day? A few evenings ago I had occasion to call on a friend who started collectâ€" ing when I did and has kept it up. He is one of the bestâ€"informed philatelists in Canada and his collection is so valuâ€" able that he keeps it somewhere in a strong steel safe. He loves stamps for their own sake and was feasting his eyes on some rarities when I arrived. He has many albums and reserves one, for instance, as the habitat of his "Big" Queen Victoriag. © He told me BOND INTEREST YEAR | that the collecting of old albums had been added to philately and displayed one dated 1867 A quaint, decoratâ€" \ed little volume, it still contained some ‘rarities, but gaps showed where others _had been taken out and sold in the ‘ years, before he had bought it at a ‘sale. Yes, and some philatelists are _even collecting old cataloguesâ€"â€"what _a tale they tell of price advancements ! in good stamps over the decades. 6.00 15.00 30.00 Next Sunday, May 14th, to be Observed as Mothers‘ Day sale. Yes, anc even collecting a tale they tell in good stamps Next Sunday, May 14th, is to be obâ€" served as "Mothers‘ Day" throughout Canada and the United States "Mothers‘ Day" appears ko be increasing in popularity, though in reâ€" cent years there were those who suggested that it had been commerâ€" cialized to such an extent that it would be likely to die out. . War conditions were also thought to work against this special day‘s observance, but all who had these forebodings in the matter overlooked the fact that mothers today are more appreciated than ever before in the world‘s history, and so the obâ€" servance of the day seems to be more popular than ever it was. Perhaps the observance does not take the forms that some expected and hoped for, but Mothers‘ Day seems to be established now as a day on which to show pecial remembrance of Mother, perhaps by a little gift, maybe by a letter or other message, but in any case to show love and remembrance Special services or special reference in the service on that day also help to carry out the spirit of Mother‘s Day. PACGE THREKE