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1 __ THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE FIVE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1947 His Majesty Salutes His Majesty's Fleet Capital - Closeups .By DOUGLAS HOW Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa--It can be reported that Prime = Minister Mackenzie King, Canada's No, 1 bachelor, flunked his Addressing a banquet of the Na- tional Liberal Federation, he pledg- ed himself to haste so the dancing could begin. "My dancing days aren't done, you know," he grinned to hundreds of chuckling listeners. But then the dinner ended and the dancing began. In an adjoining room, a dance band swung it hot and high and the younger element got into the groove, By the time the Prime Minister entered the room-- surrounded by women--the tempo was warm. : The band halted a waltz and struck out with a welcoming cres- cendo. The dancers parted and a long avenue opened along the floor. Mr. King looked tentatively at Mrs. Douglas Abbott, wife of the Finance Minister. ' A light pause and hush fell on the room. The atmosphere of en was complete, But Mr. King didn't take the cue. He grinned a trifle sheepishly and lost. himself in conversation. The band took up its waltz and the dance went on--Kingless. Aspiration: John Bracken, who would like tp occupy Prime Minis- ter Mackenzie King's seat, tried it out for size this week, When an afternoon seation of the Commons opened, the ga eries saw the Progressive Conservative chief comfortably enconsced in the gov- ernment leader's chair, chatting with External Affairs Minister St. Laurent. At this point, there entered Prime Minister King, who had promised earlier in the session that none of the Opposition leaders would occupy his spot for some time to come. Am- ably, he waved Mr. Bracken to re- main in the chair. But the Opposi- tion head lost no time retreating to the more familiar atmosphere of the speaker's left. People: Now that the relation- ship . between electorate and Mem- ber of Parliament has been restored to a basis of correspondence, mem- bers have been able to take a more objective look at the people who have been in touch with them for one reason or another these past few months. One Ontario member told a reporter they fell into three categories, : "There are," he said, "the people who will get their old car out of the 'garage, brave a raging storm and drive for miles to your door. Strangely enough, they are never any bother. Their problems are easily solved. "Then there are the people who | will call you on the phone. They fall into a little more serious eate- gory than the first class, but they are topped by the third, - "These are the letter writers. For some reason that .I can't explain, the man who will sit down and write a letter really has something on his mind. He's the one you really have to think about." Protest Raised Over Hunters Woodstock, Feb. 10--(CP)--Be- lieving that a curb should be placed on non-resident hunters, the Ox- ford Fish and Game Protective As- sociation will seek to have legisla- tion passed along these lines, it was reported here. The Association has expressed dissatisfaction at the number of non-resident hunters at large in the various counties of Western On- tario. The Association said a check had been made at Windsor which 'show- ed that during a one-hour period more than 7,000 rabbits, Jacks and dislike having their land tramped over, fences destroyed and crops damaged by too many hunters, New, Powerful Wonder Drug 10--(AP)--The ections ordinarily requiring surgery has been discover- ed at Columbia University's Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons. The newspaper says the drug wef | named bacitracin in honor of a New York girl, Margaret Tracy, in whose injured leg the organism which produces the antibiotic was found. (An antibiotic agent is a biologi- cal product of a living cell which inhibits or kills other living cells, including bacteria.) The Herald Tribune said that bacitracin, like penicillin, had a wide range of anti-bacterial action and had demonstrated ability to control many surgical infections by local injections. Half Wales Trade Due To Six Ports Cardiff, Wales--(CP)--Total traf. fic handled during 1946 by the six South Wales ports: of Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Barry, Port Tal- bot and Penarth was only a little more than half the trade in only wto main commodities before the war. Official returns issued by the op- erating Great Western Railway Co. listed shipments of coal and tine plate at 349,008 tons compared with 1938 tonnage of 19,200,618. Total freight handled through the ports last year fell from 12,074,248 tons in 1045 to 11,023,108. The main decrease was due to loss of special war traffic. ' A few regular trades cut off by hostilities have resumed on fairly substantial lines, notably imports of iron ore, iron and steel, pitwood. BH Standing on the fore turret of H.M.S. Vanguard with Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth a . Margaret Rose, King George VI, once a sailor himself, snaps a naval salute to, the home fleet as the Vanguard steams past on her way to South Africa with the touring royal family. The King wears the uniform of an admiral Canada's Secretary of State George C. Marshall, right, welcomes Canada's Governor-General Viscount Alexander and | Lady Alexander as they arrived by train to visit the President and Mrs. Truman at the White House in| Washington, Governor-General Visits Washington Build Safety Features In 'The Queen 's Flight' 2 3 & This Vickers Viking aircraft, into which is built every possible safety device that aeronautical engineers could devise, will carry the Queen on any air junkets she may make during the royal tour of South Africa. Similar craft are available for other members of the royal family. being shipped to South Africa, The plane shown at Wisley Field, Surrey, before Sees Danger In Price Increases (A statement by Pat Conroy, Sec- retary-Treasurer of the Canadian | Congress of Labor.) Recent developments in the de- control of prices make it evident that Canadians are faced with the danger of practically complete re- moval of price-ceilings. In these circumstances, it is only proper that Labour should make it clear now that if prices of essential commodi- ties are allowed to advance 'un- checked there will have to be wage increases to meet the higher costs. The average Canadian worker is already faced with conditions under which his total take-home pay is required to meet the bare necessi- ties for his family. A general ad- vance in prices, without correspond- ing wage - increases, would mean that the government was imposing a wage-cut or a lower standard of living. Sharp Food Increases Despite assurances from the Prime Minister that basic living costs are to be protected, sharp in- creases have been approved in foods which enter into the dget of pound; biscuits and bakery products, other than bread, 10%; shoes, 9- 11%; ice cream, 8c a gallon; used cars, 10%; pork, 2-7c a pound; res- taurant meals, 10%; leather gloves and mitts, 11-16%; knitted under- wear and outerwear, hosiery, shirts, cotton work clothing, etc, 5-25%; | bedding and household textiles, 5- | 26%; packaged soap flakes and i chips, 1-5¢; toilet and laundry soap, 1c a bar up. Many of these increases appear to be based upon a government policy of throwing subsidies overboard on a wholesale scale before the start of the new fiscal year. Such a policy clashes with an explanation of the subsidy principle given by Mr. Donald Gordon, chairman . of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, in a broadcast November 8, 1946, Gordon's Words Recalled It is timely to recall Mr. Gordon's words: "The subsidy system under price- control is aimed to keep down the cost of raw materials at the earliest stage of manufacture. This, in turn, prevents one rising price from | feeding upwards to another, as it | would otherwise do, because each | manufacturer or wholesaler or re- tailer who handles the goods adds ; & percentage of the cost to him as his profits, « | "Cc tly, the higher the practically every Canadian family. These budgets are now strained to the breaking point. The government's action in tak- ing ceilings completely off a wide range of articles on January 13th was: a serious blow to the wage- | earner. Since then, prices of other goods--almost all of them commo- diitles. which the average family. is compelled to buy--have received of- ficial approval. ! The fact that these new price-in- creases have been announced at various times, apparently with a de- sire to minimize their importance, does not ease their impact on the pocketbook of the average Cana- dian. : Assempled, they make an impos- Shortening and salad oils--10¢c a ' price the higher the profit mark- up, which is based on a percentage of cost, and so the higher the final price to you. That is why the col- lective saving made by all you con- the subsidy which is, of course, paid by you collectively as taxpayers." The subsidy-abandonment pol- icy which the government has adopted before world-prices are stabilized means that the "collective saving" to which Mr. Gordon re- ferred to is lost, and the burden falls most heavily on the lower-paid workers. Higher prices mean fewer buy- ers, and that, in turn, will result in a surplus of goods and ultimately in a drop in employment. The time course is now. When You WORN OUT and drag around each day, unable to do the ork --cianky with 'that clear- R= today. 140 Slowed Up by Snow ? the time to get a bargain OSHAWA 3258W 47 QUEEN ST. SEALTITE INSULATION With : ROCKWOOL If you live within 250 to 300 ft. of open road now is as 75% of our jobs are snowbound. For Free Estimate PHONE 494 BOWMANVILLE on Insulating your home, WHITBY 2160 BOWMANVILLE sumers far exceeds the amount of for the government to halt such a anaes and pp, Got nd London, Feb. .10--(AP)--Britain's fuel crisis, forcing millions out of work and sapping the country's economic recuperation from war, has been building up for a third of a century. ' War and cold wave have so ag- gravated the long-deteriorating po- sition that the country might easily be thrust into economic chaos for years to come. Douglas Jay, recently elected La- bor Member of Parliament who for- merly was an economic adviser to Prime Minister Attlee, put it this way in the House of Commons: 'We shall finish this winter with a level of stock which is absolutely disastrous and if we do not build up stocks and have much more than the normal rate of production in the summer . , . industry will come to an almost complete stop in Novem- ber and December of this year." But what caused this situation? In 1913, Britain produced a rec- ord 287,000,000 tons of coal with 1,107,000 miners, Year by year the total tonnage sagged to a 1945 low of 182,000,000 tons and the number of miners fell to fewer than 700,000. During the war oldtimers ready |Britain's Coal Problem Simmered For Years Before Boiling Over to retire were held on under essen- tial work orders and youngsters who objected to military service could pick the mines as an alternative. Several thousands did so. : When the war ended, the aged and the young conscripts largely | fled the pits. Demobilized ex- miners and new youths did not fill the gap. The country went imto. this win- ter--which turned out to be the severest in nearly 70 years--with half its normal stocks. Meanwhile, domestic consumption both to turn the wheels of revitaliz- ed industry and to heat bomb- cracked homes, rose to its highest point in history--much of the in- creased demand going into the making of gas and electricity. The blizzard beginning two weeks ago bisected the country's trans- portation system, , stopped many coal deliveries and forced some mines to close for lack of ability to dispose of their coal. The consequence was immediate disaster. LAND OF FARMS The principal occupation of Aus- tria is agriculture. Angry Eire Member Denounces. Minister Dublin--(CP)--By a vote of 85-11, the Dail approved appointment of Patrick Smith, parliamentary secre- tary to the finance ministry, as minister of agriculture despite scathing criticism from outspoken J. M. Dillon, independent member for Monaghan. Called to order when he referred to Dr. James Ryan, the retiring minister, Dillon shouted: "Surely I can argue that. if Dr. Ryan was bad, Deputy Smith would be a damned sight worse!" The Dail, he said, was being asked to approve Smith's appointment to carry on the government's policy of "wheat, beat and peat, which has left us without bread, sugar or fuel." ' ependents, Dillon, three other ind y six Farmer and one Fine Gael member voted against Smith's ap SLOAN'S Bd triresed Good for TIRED MUSCLES JUST PAY BY ON*§ RUPTURED? * THE DOBBS TRUSS METHOD For Treatment of Rupture IS DIFFERENT BUT PROVEN by thousands of wearers in many lands. IT'S BULBLESS! IT'S BELTLESS! IT'S STRAPLESS! 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