PAQE TWO THE DAILY NEWS PKINCK RUPEKT, BKIT1SII COLUMBIA Published Every' Afternoon Except Sunday by Prince Rupert Daily News Limited. Third Avenue Q. A. HUNTER. MANAGING EDITOR MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian Press Is exclusively entitled to us for publication of all news despatches credited to it or to the Associated Press In this paper and also the local news published therein. All rights of republication of special despatches therein are also reserved. DAILY EDITION EDITORIAL 20-Year Job . . . I Monday, March 29, 1943 Re-establishment . . Seventy thousand Canadians already wearing the silver-shield badge of "General Service" in the Second Great War are the proof that demobilization starts when war; begins. The question of the discharged service man is not a post-war problem it's on Canada's doorstep now. Robert England, who won the Military Cross with the Royal Canadian Regiment in the First Great War, has done a service for the Dominion's fighting men by presenting their case for prognosis rather than postmortem. In "Discharged" (Macmillan) Mr. England has produced for administrators and business leaders a fully-documented 468-page record of what has been done and a blueprintof the vital and immediate job yet to be done. This vital job rehabilitation of an estimated half-a-million t men and women is not solely a government responsibility. Mr. England says: "It is not too early for every hamlet, every village, every town, every city and every rural community in the Dominion to plan, that most effective memorial of the fallen the re-establishment of their comrades who survive." By personal experience, Mr. England learned about civil re-establishment of veterans in Canada. In the two decades after the last war he found it "never quite possible to catch up with life." He taught school in rural Saskatchewan, worked throughout the West and for a time was Director of Extension at the University of British Columbia. Since this war started he has been executive secretary of the Dominion Advisory Committee oh This student of the old soldier's problems says that ny me enu 01 more than a million Canadians will have had some form of service, long or short, in the last war or this. - "The ex-service men of this war will ask opportunity to grow, to learn, to manage, to achieve. If planning a new Canada is to be done they will expect to share in that work." . Mr. England not only describes the machinery of civil re-establishment but indicates where it might be oiled up and improved "The administration will have a heavy task in the development of vocational training facilities, particularly with relation to the re-training of special casualties. Vocational guidance will be imperative and objective testing for aptitude "In addition, there are questions of housing, the employment of women discharged from the various women's corps, the encouragement of the ex-service man student to persevere in his resumed education, and the planning, by parents and friends in rural areas, to ensure that the qualified veterans under the Veterans' Land Act should be given every support in their effort to acquire a competency as farmers." Action Already . . . In detail, Mr. England discusses the larger questions on which the Dominion government has already taken some action demobilization, its priorities and methods; disposal of canteen funds; returned soldiers' insurance. And questions which mesh into post-war reconstruction policy urban housing, honors and decorations and war service gratuity. . But al his facts arid figures are presented as background to the principle that the only true reward for war service, is the provision of greater opportunity in Canada s social and economic life. They 'are presented also to the men m the forces in the hope "that if the knowledge of what has alreadv been put into force by the government as here outlined is really understood by service men, it will by neutralizing ill-informed criticism make a contribution to improved morale and reaffirm their orig- and deep conviction that Canada is worth fighting n3uamHi!ini TRAPPERS Can't you see I'm your friend. There's traps laid for you down there. Bring your furs up town where you're sure to cet 30 more. They are paying a man $50.00 a week and a big commission so you trappers can't bring your furs up town. I'm here to W. G0LDBL00M iTWMwn.. T ....... ".'..iiji.B:AKi.BJBiBi;i;jKJ LETTERBOX MOTHER'S PLEA Editor, Daily News: A lot has been written and said lately about the beer and liquor shortage but how about the milk shortage? That, it seems to me, Is far more important. Must we, in Canada, stand by and see our children go without milk? We are told by doctors and dieticians that each child should get THE DAILY NEWS MONDAY. MARCH 29, 1943 one quart of milk a day but how are we going to manage that when all we can get is a couple of cans for the whole family? , Preparing to kill the enemy might be Important but must it be at the cost of our children's health? We can only get enough butter to sniff at while the farmers, according Jo prairie papers, are unable to sell their butter as the stores Already have more than they can sell la the rationed public There is something wrong some place-Yours for more milk and butter. A DISGUSTED MOTHER. BIG SHOW IS STAGED 'Double Rill For Troops Ls Oreatly Enjoyed (By Dorothy GarbutO . Yesterday's and last evening's concerts for the troops neld a surprise element in that It was 1 double-header. Through what the dear old B. B. C. used to call a "Technical Hitch" until some un- I aspirated Cockney sent them a tin : t- of flea powder, two concert parties from the outside landed here on one and the same day. Both parties being composed of swell troupers they solved the programme by making the show bigger and better and both giving full programmes. The Edmonton concert party calling themselves "The Leglonalrres" took the first half of the program and the R,. C. A. F. "Joe Boys" the second half. SPICE-OLD CHINA Miss Grace Yomv?, who y -. .v. private secretary to c w'h man, managing director 0f Union, Steamship Co ar-i. the city Friday night tt lk couver. She is here to a,me position of s secretary jn a lo-aTJ 'u tary hospital. a'Bu. HAMBURGERS Cth St4 Hehlnd Uoyal Hotel Spices were known in China as .8 PHONE BLACK 59 4 far back as 2.000 B.C. oooOOOO0oj , Tj HOW DO THOSE . INEFFICIENT '" : . ' "" DEMOCRACIES '"'!;, GET SUCH GOOD V ! i RAILWAYS '1 t ' I .J ' HERE'S THE ABJSWER, KERR HITLER TlUNK back a while, Herr Hitler. Remember when you couldn't put your mind to anything but armaments and super highways? You forgot about your railways then, didn't you? You just let them tag along. That's where we thinK you were wrong, Herr Hitler. Look at the railways in Canada. We're one of the democracies you refer to. We weren't looking for war hut we were ready to do our job. That's why wer had the best of rolling stock and locomotives . . . modern roadbeds . . . improved equipment and trained personnel. We meant them for peace-time. You're learning now how useful they've been in war . . . carrying the biggest load in our history, most of it stuiF for licking you. Don't you wish you had railways like ours, Herr Hitler? With Air Force locomotive-busters adding to your troubles, wouldn't it be fine ? Hut it's too late now, Herr Hitler. Goering sold you the idea of guns instead of butter and then promised "No bombs will fall on'Gerraany.'t One way and another, it's left the railways u your particular headache. And it's all yours, Herr Hitler not ours CANADIAN PACIFIC M$k CANADIAN NATIONAL - SaMyfopftCc 444 'ZCkl zkc6 7ezce, ' v In'- I