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FARM LABOR CRISIS Total of farm labor in Canada has decreased over 13% since the war began, an official survey shows. In actual numbers it is estimated that close to 150,000 men have left the farms during that period. A great many of these have enlisted in the armed forces, the remainder mostly into munitions «work. As a result of the decline Canadian farmers have been forced to utilize a great deal more of their own family help and ailso high school students from the cities during the rush period. In the eastern half of the country the peak of harvesting is now passed. but on the prairies it is in full flood and will continue so until at least midâ€"September.â€"Financial Post. MMC CC EqPZDPPICCNE INnEY NCCW °D COnquer Int enemy? As we read the name# of scores of young men who suffered 14 died on the beaches of Dieppe, how precious few of us will want to withdraw our money from the war chest in order to have a good time with it or to spend it on goods that will make our own lives more With such leaders, Canadians will not fail in any task ahead. What Canadian father would drop his tools and slow up war production needed by his fighting son overseas? How many Canadians will deâ€" liberately spend money for comfort and amusement, when that money is needed so desperately to give our soldier leaders overseas the last bit of equipment they need to conquer the enemy? / No Canadian soldier puts a limitation on the extent of his service. He is truly going all out for victory. Each of those Canadian leaders overseas has voluntarily offered to stop living, if necessary, that we may live. Each has turned his back on chesterflelds and pillows and the joy of doing what he likes. Each has forgotten the ease of an eight or ten hour day and the weekly pay envelope that permitted him to buy a new suit or a shirt or to take the girl out to a dance. Each will work twentyâ€"four hours at a stretch when called to do so. Few will argue against that opinion. Good leadership embraces the ability to inspire a people to higher achievement, and there is nothing so inspirational as a good example. In all the selfâ€"denial and hard work required from us at home, we are inspired by our gallant leaders who scour the ocean to protect our troops and war materials, who sweep the skies to shelter our homes and industries, and whose who dash into enemy territory to crush the heartless wretches who plunged the world into war. It is admitted that price control in a democracy is impossible without the sympathetic coâ€"operation of the public, and it is true that the Board has had enthusiastic coâ€"operation to date. It is suggested that, now that the restrictions imposed are proving irksome to conâ€" sumers as well as to merchants, it might be in the Board‘s own interest to ease the tension, and send a battalion or two of its employees home. The new rates of income tax should be a protection against a great increase in popular spending.â€"The Printed Word. One who did not mean to disparage the efforts of men and women in Canada now giving leadership in this country during wartime. declared recently: ~ How the rumor started may never be known, but its rapid acceptâ€" ance as truth by a large section of the public shows how readily any rumor about rationing will be believed now that a rationing system is fairly under way. With gasoline, sugar. tea and coffee, progress has been swift from voluntary reduction in use to compulsory rationing. Evidently many consumers are determined that they shall not be caught napping again. One man, knowing that the rumor was improbable beâ€" cause of the need for glycerine as a byâ€"product of soap, nevertheless advised his wife to lay in a supply on the general ground that stupidity of any course of governmental action is no guarantee against its adopâ€" tion. Even the denial of the rumor is taken by some as corroborative evidence of its truth. i ness under the interference of government agencies with normal standards of living. The consumer, at first a strong supporter of the Wartime Prices and Trade Boad as a bulwark against inflation, now finds his cost of living rising and supplies of available goods diminishâ€" ing. If a degree of inflation had been allowed to take place last autumn, the consumer would have had the same experience. At present the consumer may give the Board the benefit of the doubt, and believe that the symptoms of inflation now discernable are not as bad as the results of real inflation would have been had the Board not been established. If shortages of goods continue to get worse and the cost of living continues to rise, a serious strain is going to be placed on the sympathy of the consuming public towards the Board. "Canada‘s true leaders are the boys in uniform who are fighting on the seas and overseas." ‘The United Service Branch of the Canadian Corps Association has again urged payment of the costâ€"ofâ€"living bonus to dependents of the mep in our armed forces. It must be quite a shock for many Canadians to learn that they do not share in the general bonus payment ordered recently. It is a disgrace that there should have to be public pleading to have‘it granted to them. It took quite a tussle to have Ottawa extend family allowances to the third and fourth children of our fighting men, though we can‘t recall that a single voice was ever raised against it. But there should not be any confusion now about those allowanees taking the place of a costâ€"ofâ€"living bonus, They don‘t and they can‘t. Official denial of the rumor that rationing of soap is under conâ€" templation will not be good news for small boys but may relieve the minds of their mothers who are already worried by the disappearance of many familiar brands of goods from the shelves of the neighborhood The Government is very clear as to the principle behind the costâ€" ofâ€"living bonus. It is the Wageâ€"earner‘s insurance Against a rise in the cost of living while wages are under a ceiling. It was first paid to workers in the war plants and other industries under the Dominion Labor Disputes Act. When the overall price and wage ceiling went into effect last November the bonus was an essential feature of the plan. It then became mandatory on all employers to pay a bonusâ€"agriculâ€" tural workers, domestics and employees of charitable institutions exâ€" ceptedâ€"should the costâ€"ofâ€"living index rise a full point or more. Then it is simply a question of, Are our fighting men wageâ€"earners? There is no one who doesn‘t know and wouldn‘t give the right answer to that. If the workers on a Government contract are entitled to the costâ€"ofâ€"living bonus, and some get a bonus of $4.25 a week; if the Federal civil servants are entitled to it, and some get as high as $18 a month, then why not the families of our sailors, soldiers and airmen? We have been a little too tolerant of the demands of other groups in this country. We have leaned a little too far backward to be certain they were happy at their work, and not considerate enough of those who take the risks and make the sacrifices. Not only should they have the bonus; there is no ground on which to deny them. Surely it is not with them that we are to begin the practice of economy in public spending.â€"Globe and Mail. since war began. In that time the costâ€"ofâ€"living index (adjusted to August, 1939) has risen 17 points. The last jump amounted to 2.4 points, equivalent to a bonus payment of 60 cents a week under the Governâ€" ment order. There is no way for the families of our fighting men to dodge this increase. They must eat, clothe themselves, pay rent and do, The symptoms, in fact, indicate the beginnings of consumer restlessâ€" Soldiers and their dependents have been under a wage ceiling Rumors Are Symptoms Who Has Better Claim? Follow The Leaders things on which the costâ€"ofâ€"living averages are NOTE AND COMMENT A total primary load increase of 17.1 per cent for July, 1942, over the corresponding month â€"last year is revealed in the monthly summaâ€" ry of load just released by The Hydroâ€"Electric Power Commission of Ontario. This increase, based upon the maximum 20â€"minute peak horseâ€" power load for the respective months, covers all four Hydro sysâ€" tems and the Northern Ontario Properties and continues to reflect|be 1,945,000 horsepower, a powen theâ€" mounting demands for power shortage of approximately 250,000 Niagara System ... Eastern Ontario System ........ Georgian Bay System ............ Thunder Bay System ............ Northern Ontario Properties Primary and Secondary Loads Niagara System ... Eastern Ontario System ... Georgian‘ Bay System ... Thunder Bay %stem Northern Ontaric Properties... July Figures Show * Continued Load Increase Wj ..‘v;‘ifl;!l!lii,! bad, Doctor. °L t;an'ti even sleep @ .when it‘s time to get up." ~ Complete load tabulations are as follows: Total ... Total ... ~B tg LAFFâ€"A.DAY zus W ATBRLO® (Jatgts) CHB: True, there is no law which says you cannot sell your Victory Bonds or Certificates. It is not a legal obligation that you keep them for the duration. But there is a moral promise to make a loan to your Country for the War period. To evade that undertaking through sale, at this time of great need, is to welshâ€"it is the denial of an obligation which you admitted and aecepted by your act of purchase. Your Country does not ask you to deny yourself those necessary things which make for decent living, that you may buy Victory Bonds and Certificates. But the voice of Public Opinion does say that those persons who now insist on the unnecessary luxuries of life are not themselves decent. Of courseâ€"you have no immediate cause for worry. No one will ask you to cross the beach and climb the cliffs of Dieppe. You are not in a slit trench with Stuka Diveâ€"Bombers showering death about you, The blazing sun of Africaâ€" the windâ€"driven sandsâ€"will never cut and blister your skin until every exposed part of your body becomes a festering sore. Noâ€"you will never feel the vibrant crash of a torpedo EI"S be brutally frank. The man or woman who buys a Victory Bond or Certificate to save face, then sells itâ€" except in case of dire necessityâ€"is a welsher. Maximum 20â€"Min. Peak H.P. Per Cent. July 1942 July 1941 Increase WELSHER 2,166,523 2,107,381 1,560,992 1,566,756 174,084 53,282 110,912 261,489 101,233 217,790 174,084 be in the neighborhood of 2,197,â€" 000 horsepower, an increase of ‘some 250,000 to 275,000 horsepowâ€" er over December, 1941. As the esâ€" timated capacity at that time will be 1,945,000 horsepower, a power from essential war industries. The Commission‘s en’ineen preâ€" dict that by the end of December of this year the primary demand in the Southern Ontario area, comâ€" prising the Niagara, Georgeon Bay and Eastern Ontario systems, will THERE ARE ONLY A FEW PEOPLE WHO Will BE INTERESTED IN THIS ADVERTISEMENT 2,012,277 1,265,013 162.466 49,897 1,439,678 1,800,252 102,172 257,595 224,351 162,935 DON‘T â€"2.9 17.1 1.2 6.8 27 8.8 6.8 6.8 8.6 1.5 7.4 tems and the Northern Ontario Properties totalled 2,166,523 horseâ€" power, while the corresponding month last year showed a total of ‘2,012.277 horsepower. DNICLEB 7. Drastic federal government economies in the use of paper and supplies and printing and distriâ€" bution of government books to be effected through a Director of Govâ€" ernment Office Economies Control, War Services Minister Hon. Joseph T. Thorson announces; Col. John Thompson named director. The July, 1941, total peak deâ€" mand was, 1,800,252 horsepower, as against 2,107,381 horespower for July of this year. The Niagara system again headed the list with an increase of 295,979 horsepower or an advance of 23.4 per cent over July, 1941 Combined primary and secondary loads for all four sysâ€" Germans murder 12 of their comâ€" rades who had been taken prisonâ€" King cables Lieutâ€"Gen. McNaughâ€" ton declaration of Canada‘s pride at Canadians having beex;‘fiven a foremost place in Dieppe k Board warns that action will be taken against persons spreading false rumors of prospective rationâ€" to 45,000 officers and men and inâ€" crease the number of ships to 550 Defence Minister J. L. Ralston tells American Bar Association at Detroit. 9. Wartime Prices and Trade Board announces removal of the overall price ceiling from Canadian and imported newspapers, â€"magaâ€" zines and periodical â€" publications in general. & CANADA‘S _ WAR EFFORT ments on the Home Front: August units, commanded Major &!‘J.KMGILM‘B attack of the Dieppe raid, it is reâ€" 6. Plans for expansion this year will bring Canada‘s Navy strength 8. Duke of Kent killed in flying boat crash in north of Scotland. 10. In interests of manpower conservation the Civil Service is permitted, for duration of the war, to take part time work outside their regular government office 11. Prime Minister _ announces creation of a Wartime Information Board with Charles Vining, Monâ€" treal, newsprint executive as chairâ€" horsepower is anticipated BE A 2 French Canadian troops back If you do this we know what the answer will be. We know because the men and women of Canada are inherently decent people. They value the good opinion and respect of friends and neighbors. But most important is the fact that we Canadians value our own selfâ€"respect. We ask charity from noneâ€"we assume our obligation to work and lend. So there can only be one answerâ€"you will beld your Victory Bonds and Certificates for the duration except in cases of extreme necessity. But if you think you are doing your part by buying Victory Bonds only to sell themâ€"then, you had better take yourself into a dark room and ask yourself some soulâ€"searching questions. Ask yourself what you are doing to protect your loved ones, your Country, and your way of life. All you are asked to do is to lend to your Countryâ€" Canadaâ€"lend at interest all the money you can possibly spare to provide the tools for those men who are fighting your fhight. You are not expected to deprive yourself to the extent that you must live below the level of ordinary decency. â€"the tilt of a ship‘s deck under your feet as it slides to Davey Jones. No one is asking you to leave your favorite chair tonight and fly over Germang. None of these things is asked of you. NATIONAL WAR FINANCE COMMITTEE For two years, citizens of Canâ€" ada have been advised to set up budgets for personal incomes, in view of the great need to divert as much as possible from personal inâ€" comes to Canada‘s war chest through the purchase of bonds and certificates. At this point, that adâ€" vice holds good, but instead of beâ€" ing offered casually it will have to be shouted from the housetops. Unpatriotic Canadians can conâ€" tinue to live the same kind of priâ€" vate lives during the coming year as they have enjoyed during the Personal Budgets Mandatory Incorporated 1855 Waterloo Branch â€"J. S. McMillan, Manager Kitchener Branch â€" W. E. Sharpe, Manager Business firms and other organiâ€" zations which make a practice of showing individuals how to budget every last cent of their incomes are rendering an invaluable service to Canada‘s War Finance program. past year in spite of sharp increases in income taxation. They can do this by cutting out their purchases of certificates and bonds. The paâ€" triotic cit.he%,owho realizes that his country has to meet the obligations of a war for his freedoom, can not maintain the same standard of livâ€" ing during the coming year as he has in the past. He has to plan not only to pay his income taxes but to buy even more certificates and bonds than ever before. Friday, September 4, 1942 C242