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Authorized as Second Class Maiter, Post Office Dept, Ottawa, Can. Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 8 » 2 2 0 APRIL, 1948 FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1948 Britain's Overseas Trade A true comparison, between Britain's overseas trade now and before the war has been made possible by an official revaluation in terms of 1938 prices. This revaluation, which was published in the Board of Trade Journal of May 8th shows that while Britain's total imports in the first quarter of 1948 had an actual value of $1,950,000,000 -- the highest figure reached since 1920 with the exception of that for the abnormally high third quarter of 1947--the value on the 1938 basis was only $714,000,000. The volume for that quarter was accordingly only 78% of the average for three months in 1938. y Britain's export prices have risen less sharply than world prices--a factor which helps largely to account for a deterioration of 13% in terms of her overseas trade during the first quarter of this year compared with 1938. This re- valuation of exports for that quarter is more favourable and gives a total of just under $592,000,000 compared with $1,413,600,000 actual value. The swift expansion in United Kingdom exports during the last few months is reflected in the volume index numbers. Taking 1938 as 100, the index for the quarter under review is 126 compared with 114 and 118 per cent respectively in the third and fourth quarters of last year. "It is difficult to make precise comparisons over a long period" says the Journal "but the volume for this quarter is easily the highest since the first quarter of 1930, though still roughly one-tenth below the general level in the years 1924 to 1929." On May 5th Sir Stafford Cripps confirmed the continua- tion in steady expansion of Britain's postwar export trade, when he announced the volume for April as being 135% above the 1938 level--the highest point yet reached: The end-of-the-year target is 154%, The Board of Trade Journal, surveying progress in the first three months of this year, shows that while many industries have still a considerable way to go, others are dpproaching their targets. For example, textiles and clothing must increase by 63% by next December and coal exports must increase threefold. On the other hand, cutlery and hardware have overshot the target rate by 6% and vehicle exports fall short of the target by the same per- centage only. At 104% of 1938, the volume of exports of food, drink and tobacco was the highest since the war. The value at present prices was just under $92,000,000 and at 1938 values $37,200,000. Raw material exports also showed a rise, prin- cipally because of a considerable increase in coal exports, which were easily the highest sinse the third quarter of 1946. The value of raw material exports at present prices was $46,400,000 compared with $28,800,000 for the preceding quarter. These values on a 1938 basis are $15,600,000 and $10,400,000 respectively. It is noteworthy that the biggest increase in exports was shown by manufactured foods, which rose by ten points during the last quarter to a new postwar record of 143% of the 1938 volume. The total value of these exports was about $1,231,000,000 or just over $520,000,000 at-the average values of 1938. fii Siphaln Only A Stop-Gap (Brockville Recorder and Times) Cemetery "bees" are again the rule throughout the countryside, as groups of people, usually men (sometimes joined by women) belonging to church congregations, join together to cut down brush, burn old grass and otherwise cairy out a Spring clean-up of rural graveyards. These Springtime burying-ground "bees" are an excel- lent idea. But they have their limitations. What happens after the clean-up has taken place? Too frequently the ceme- tery is again forgotten. It is once more allowed to grow up in brush and deep grass. And so the clean-up "bee" has to be repeated at intervals unless the place is to 'wear an air of utter decay and desolation. Of much more permanent value than these "bees," ad- mirable though they are, would be the accumulation of suffi- cient funds to maintain rural burying-grounds in such. a manner that periodical "bees" would be no longer a neces- sity. The effect of the "bee" has to be repeated over and over again and between the times at which it is held the cemetery inevitably presents an appearance of neglect in the absence of regular care, ; In various communities where this problem arises, people are apt to contend that perpetual care is an impossi- bility because they cannot hope to raise enough money to bring it into effect. Have they really tried? Probably the same idea was entertained by people at Maynard, Lansdowne, * Maitland and at other points throughout this district where the cemetery maintenance problem has been faced and over- come and where graveyards are kept in excellent order, not merely in the Spring but throughout the year and every year. If these communities can do it, others can do likewise. ~The periodical cemetery "bee" is better than nothing at all. But it is only a stop-gap. The problem of rural cemetery maintenance will only bg solved when funds are made avail- able to make certain that care is given plots perpetually. By AAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspo=dent Ottawa, May 14 -- United States troops and supplies are moving through Canada to Alaska at a rate unequalled since the end of the war. . The troops are being moved large- ly by air while supplies are being sent by rail to Dawson Creek, B.C. and thence to Fairbanks, over Al- aska Highway. Canadian facilities are hard pressed to handle the heavy traffic and United States Army establish- ments at . Edmonton and at Fort Nelson, B.C., have been greatly en- larged since the first of the year. These are the two key stops on the northwest air staging route from Great Falls, Montana, to Alaska. United States troops in transit are supposed to be confined to barracks during stopovers in Edmonton. By the same token U.S. military sup- plies passing through Edmonton by rail generally do so at night with- out any stopover. But despite these security pre- cautions the whole Canadian north- west knows of movements. Any shop girl in Edmonton can reveal "top secret" movements. "Security consciousness" dent everywhere on the army and airforce stations along the Alaska Highway and the northwest staging route, U. 8. troops and officers in the north seem convinced they are headed for combat service and that soon they'll be in action to defend the continent against an invader. Canadian troops and officers, on the other hand, are skeptical about the imminence of war and believe that if it does come there will be very little actual fighting in the north, This also appears to be the opinion of the Canadian Govern- ment. Not one Canadian service man is stationed in the Canadian northwest on a combat basis. There's not a single man whose role it is to defend the Alaska Highway against attack, nor is there one on any of the seven huge Canadian airfields between Edmon- ton and Fairbanks. Canadian troops in this area are concentrating entirely on training and maintenance--maintaining the Alaska Highway and airfields. An observer returning from the north says that the fields are in just as good condition as when the Am- ericans turned them over, and that the highway is in better condi- tion. "People who have worked on the highway ever since its construction started assured me that never has it been in such good condition at this time of year than it is right now," this observer reported on his return to Ottawa. "I verified this by. driving over a section of the highway at the height of the Spring thaw. It was broad and firm and it wag easy for the driver to maintain 45 miles an hour cruis- Ing. speed. The same driver had covered the full Canadian section and said that all of it was in first class condition," he reported, The maintenance is done entire- ly by Canadian Army engineers who take real pride in the work. But 'unlike the Americans, the Canadians are preoccupied not with the prospect of an imminent Rus- slan attack, but rather with the prospect of an influx of tourists over the Alaska Highway this sum- mer, The Canadians are afraid many will try to cover the highway in rattletrap cars suffering break- downs on desolate stretches where no civilian service stations are op- erating. Canadian Army officers fear that their main activity this summer may be rescuing these un- fortunates, thus diverting men and equipment from the job of highway maintenance. Who is right in this urgent ques- tion? The Canadians or the yo ericans? The Americans, at least, don't seem to be taking any chances. Their concern is not with frivolous tourists but with the seri- ous business of protecting the con- tinent, is evi- hn LESS WHEAT SEEDED Ottawa, May 14--(CP)--Cana- dian farmers have indicated that they plan to seed 500.000 fewer acres of wheat during 1948 than they did in 1947, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics said Thursday in reporting acreage intentions as of 'April 30: The 1948 wheat acreage is placed at 23,700,000 acres com- pared with 24,300,000 last year, L a * MONTREAL * TORONTO All Ford Hotels are cen- * trally fireproof and have a radio in every room. For reservations write or wire the Manager well in advance of anti- cipated arrival, "Descendants. of David" --Page, in The Louisville Courier-Journal ® 45 Years Ago KIDNAPPING CONVICTION Midland, May 14 -- (CP) -- Al- bert Parrish of Midland, described The Town Council discussed at sonie length the condition of the rolling stock and roadbed of the Oshawa Railway. Councillor Ed- monson stated it was difficult to induce excursions to come to Osh- awa due to the lack of proper fa- cilities, It took a gang of over 50 men about a week to 'clear away a slide of earth which occurred in the cut about 90 yards west of Myrtle Station, The scaffolding was rerhoved from Simcoe Street Methodist Church and it was expected the building would be open for ser- vices soon. Messrs, Bishop and Drew, con- | tractors for the town's granolitic sidewalks, were busy on the west side of Charles Street, e A Bit of Verse 'a. OF PLOWER AND SOWER A Bd. 3 seed to the mother A i r a earth, taking and giving --Joseph Joel Keith. Hear the soft music of plower and sower, steady and silent the movement of grower, Hear the earth parting as plowman and horses g0 the rich miles of the earth-turning courses. Hear the hands' rhythm returning the living F; Parasite' Plane Will Get Tryout On U.S. Bomber New York, May 14--(AP)--The United States Air Force announced Thursday it is ground-testing a tiny hitch-hiking, jet-propelled fighter designed to ride as escort for super-range bombers. The miniature fighter is the Mc- Donnell XF-85, a radical design adf#pted to stowage in the bomb bay of a B-36, which is more than 10 times as large. Known as a "parasite" because it is based aboard another airplane, the XF-85 revives a princpile test- ed extensively by the U., S. Navy some years ago when fighters were carried inside large dirigibles. The jet plane has a wing span of 21 feet and is but 15 feet long. It has swept-back wings which fold at the outer panels. Double rudders are part of the design to put the plane into the smallest possible space. It has no landing gear other than a retractable hook ahead of the cockpit by which it can be swung down from the bomb bay for launching in flight. It "lands" by engaging the hook. Its top estimat- ed speed is around 650 miles an hour, $50 to $1000 MONEY FOR EMERGENCIES, OTHER PURPOSES When youneed extra money, borrow $50 to $1000 from HFC. You can borrow with- out endorsers or bankable security; Up to 24 months to repay: Loans made for almost any good reason. "Phone or come in today. Prompt service: Tune in' The Whistler" --Canada's Top Mystery Show, CBC-- Wednesday nights 15 Simcoe Street South Over Kresge's Phone Oshawa 3601 OSHAWA, ONT, "Hours 9 to 5 or by oppoiniment Loans made fo residents of nearby owns SERVING THE PUBLIC SINCE 1878 OUSEHOLD (21.7.1. (d 3 as a ber of the Canadian Sea- men's Union . (TL.C.), Thursday was convicted of kidnapping John Fish, member of the rival Canadian Lake Seamen's Union. He was re- manded in custody to May 27 for sentence, ' ® Other Editors CONFUSION DEEPENS (Detroit Free Press) A lot of people have said that with the atomic bomb a navy is futile. Now the Annapolis alumni president says the atomic bomb is futile without a navy. Our con- fusion deepens. BRITISH SCIENTISTS LEAD (St. Catharines Standard) British scientists are reported to have, solved the biggest problem about putting atomic energy into industrial and other use. The war surely proved that British scien- tists are up there in front all the time, Their discoveries in many fields now have world wide recog- nition and usage. LUCKY MR. ROSE (Peterborough Examiner) Fred Rose wants to pose as a martyr, and to spread the impres- sion that Canada has made a po- litical prisoner of him and treated him worse than any other felon, This is quite untrue. Rose is no worse off than any other impris- oned man and, considering the con- dition of the world at present, he may think himself lucky. 'KEEPING KILLERS (St. Catharines Standard) , Should the killer enemies of so- ciety have board and keep at the public expense for the best part of a lifetime? Far better that the money' be given to old people who have spent their lives honestly and industriously. The State of Michi- gan, for insatnce, does not have capital punishment, but it does have the largest penitentiary in America, with the greatest popu- lation, at Jackson. Culture of Britain, France Highlighted in Exhibition Which Elizabeth Will Open By JAN FRASER Paris, May 14.--(Repters) -- Cul- tural ties between Britain and France through the ages is the key- note of the exhibition which Prin- cess Elizabeth opens in Paris to- day during her first visit to the French capital. Entitled "Eight Centuries of Bri- tish Life in Paris," the exhibition is housed in the Galliera Museum, almost within a stone's throw of the Chaillot Palace where the Un- ited Nations will hold its third an- nual assembly in September. For the next three months, Par- isians and thousands of visitors will be able to study examples of the works of famous Britons who have forged cultural links between Paris and the British Isles since the 12th century, The exhibition comprises works ranging from 12th-century illumin- ated manuscript. from the Bodleian Library at Oxford to pictures of English painters like Turner and souvenirs and the "Entente Cor- diale" period when, under the in- fluence: of the Princess' great grandfather, King Edward VII, "the most Parisian of Englishmen," cultural relations between the two countries reached a high point. Exhibits have been gathered from French and British museums and many have been loaned for the co- casion from private collections such as that of the King. The many marriages uniting the royal house of France with the Tudors and the Stuarts are com- memorated by portraits such 'as that from the King's 6 collection (Fontainebleau School) of the marriage of Mary of Eng'and, sister of Henry VII, to Louis XfI, The marriages of James V of Scot- land to successive Princesses of works of the French school. In the next ection are many works of art showing the marraige and exile of Henrietta' Maria ani the life of the exile court of James II at St. Germain. In ths group, too, is the relic of the death-mask of James II. There are also many prints ana portraits of Englishmen who adopt- ed the cause of the French revolu- tion. In the' section devoted to the second empire and the third repub- lic are water colors by Lami repre- senting the visit of Queen Victoria to Napoleon IT and works of other artists illustrating the life of Eng- lish visitors in Paris at the end of the century. Here also are recalled the visits of Edward VII in 1903 and Georga VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1938. In the last room, visitors will see works of English painters who used Paris as their studio as well as portraits of English writers like Scott, Thackeray, Byron, Dickens, Du Maurier, Oscar Wilde and Kip- ling, whose influence left its mark on contemporary French literature, campaign." Because... Because... - Because LI in this campaign: VOTE or Mayor Frank McCALLUM NO ISSUE? The candidate of the present Government at Ottawa is reported in the press as having made the following statement as his first official utterance "As far as I know there is no very great issue in this FRANK McCALLUM Says ... The Issues Are - HIGH PRICES - HIGH TAXES -HIGH-HANDEDNESS HIGH PRICES are the direct result of the meddling and muddling of the present Govern- ment at Ottawa in connection with such vital issues as Controls, Dollar parity, the free marketing of Agricultural products, etc., etc. HIGH TAXES (including Excise Duties and Import Duties and Restrictions) are crip- pling the automobile industry. The present prohibitive high price of automobiles is the direct result of regulations made in Ottawa b y the present Government. \ HIGH-HANDEDNESS of the present Government at Ottawa has brought to a once democratic Canada an appalling measure of Fascism and Bureaucracy -- Government by Regulation and Order-in-Council instead of Government by Parliament which was once the right and heritage of every Canadian. : THIS IS A PROTEST BY-ELECTION --- MAKE YOUR PROTEST HEARD BY THE BUREAUCRATS AT OTTAWA BY VOTING FOR FRANK McCALLUM PROGRESSIVE- CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE in Ontario Riding The Progressive Conservative Candidate 7 JUNE 7--KELLY CREIGHTON M.P.P. To The Ontario Legislature JUNE 8--Mayor FRANK McCALLUM To The Dominion Government LISTEN TO-- MAYOR McCALLUM ¥ OVER CKDO OSHAWA MAY 19--8.45 TO 9 P.M. od