on nwa”

NOTHING BUT THE

machine tool kept

BEST. Despite the vast and insistent wartime
demands madé on Canada for gasoline and oil, not one aircraft has
ever been grounded, a ship held in port, a farm tractor stopped or a
idle because of their lack.
quality Of petroleum products for Canada’s armed forces, tests are
made at various stages of production.
cperating a quality-testing machine, in infra-red spectrophotometer,
a new method of testing the quality of petroleum

ity ia

Assuring the best

A chief chemist is shown

Programs

Auditorium,

for the
Fraser Valley Musical Festival, to
be held in the Canadian Legion

FESTIVAL PROGRAM
ARRANGED TO GIVE
GREATEST PLEASURE

Mission City,

threeday

Mon-

day, Tuesday and Wednesday, Ap-

ril 30, May 1 and 2, are .now
avaiable. They can be procured;
at a nominal charge, from Mis-
sion stores or members of the
Festival committee.

Entries are double in number
compared with last year and are
drawn from all parts of the
Fraser Valley and the Coast
cities,

The program, committee mem-

Long life...low upkeep

... the Ford V-8 Engine

ALL THE FORDS on the road to-
day are growing old—there have
been no new ones made since
1942. The amazing thing to
owners is how well they’ve stood
up all through the war.

In many cases they haven’t had
the best of care, for many of the
skilled’ mechanics who formerly
tuned them up regularly are in the
armed forces, and Ford dealers
must give priority to the servicing
of essential transport.

The way Ford cars have kept on
doing thelé duty during the war
years speaks well for the way the
Ford V-8 engine is engineered
and built. Its rugged simplicity

has meant low upkeep cost. Its
fuel economy has made thou-
sands of Canadians thankful they
owned a Ford when the war
came on.

Will the post-war Ford be
powered with the same V-8
engine? Yes, a V-8 with all the
battle-tested refinements resulting
from the war years. Continuously
since 1942 Ford of Canada en-
gineers have developed new re-
finements to enhance the per-
formance of the V-8 engine in the
war zones. In the post-war
models all these engineering
advancements will be offered to
you at once,

WAH

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FORD MOTOR COMPANY OF CANADA,

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LIMITED

April 25, 1945 ABBOTSFORD,

SUMAS & MATSQUI NEWS 7

Continued from Page Two

TALK ON POST-WAR EMPLOYMENT PROBLEM

might be called the period of in-
terruption and frustration. The first
world war struck in 1914 and drew
away a proportion of our young
men many of whom were potential
leaders of industry. Very few muni-
tions were manufactured in BC. and
industry generally ceased to and.
After the war, in 1921, a general de-
cline in commodity prices took place,
followed in 1929 by a slump in in-
ternational trade. A further blow to
our industries ss delivered by the
USA imposing, a prohibitive tariff
on lumber, cattle and other products
in 1932.

British Columbia industry was
only saved from utter collapse by
the British » Empire
which took effect in 1930 on lumber
and in 1932 on other products.

The population in: 1941 stood at
793,000. Thus we see that during the
time of our expansion up to 1911
our population increased at tlie rate
of 137 percent each decade, whereas
since 1911 the population only rose
at the rate of 38 percent per decade.

During the past four years our
industry has been busy at peak pro-
duction on goods for or of destruc-
tion. This false prosperity has been
made possible solely by high taxa-
tion and forced draft public loans.

So at the end of hostilities in both
war theatres we are faced with the
problem of providing productive,
steady work for, in addition to our
normal population:

Men of the armed forces

Those who came here during

the war 100,000
also youths leaving school and the

90,000

I do not presume to offer a solu-
tion of this problem, but would sug-
gest two things that arm very im-
portant in order to provide contin-
uous, productive employment:

1) Ensure the perpetual and
adequate supply of raw mater-
ials.

2) Find steady and sure markets
for our products.

We all know how seriously our
forest resources have depleted in the
past and how necessary it is to re-
place the growth. This must be done
as rapidly“as possible. It is estimated
that 1,200,000 acres of first-class
forest land is ready for planting.
This is land burned over long after
logging took place, thus destroying
all young volunteer growth. In ad-
dition, about 40,000 acres are logged
every year. The rapid reforesting of
all this land will ensure a perpetual
crop of 500,000,000 board feet an-
nually. The University of B.C. offers
a course in silviculture and has been
granted 10,000 acres of forest land
for research work. This is very good,
but not enough. I believe that the
governments should institute schools
of forestry so that youths on leaving
school could be trained in forestry
work, should their ability point in
that direction. In this way we could
obtain the required number of train-
ed men to supervise actual plant-
ing and care of the young forests.

Regarding our fisheries. To the
layman not having the opportunity
or inclination to study the figures
of our yearly salmon packs, it will
be something of a shock to realize
that the pack from all areas of B.C.
has declined in eight years by 600,-
000 cases per year. In some indivi-
dual cases the pack of certain dist-
ricts has almost disappeared. The
loss of wealth in the Fraser Valley

15,000,000 cases, representing $180,-
000,000.

Fortunately the International Pa-
cific Salmon Commission has done
very valuable research work which
is now being put into practice at
Hell’s Gate, and it is confidently
expected that on completion the
Fraser River salmon yield will be up
to a higher level than ever before.
However, this is not enough. In my
opinion this research or practical
work should take place on all our
salmon rivers and streams. Obstacles
both natural and artificial, should
be removed to give access to the
spawning grounds. Fishery officers
should be appointed near all im-
portant rivers or streams to protect
the fish crop. He should reside near
the scene of his endeavors and ac-
commodation should be provided for
this purpose. Poaching should be
severely dealt with, for the loss of
one salmon mearis the future loss
of many thousands, and gentlemen,
Salmon poaching has reached very

_Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, Cana-
dian high commissioner in Lon-
don, has been appointed Cana-
dian representative on the United
Nations War Crimes Commission.

bers point out, is arranged to
give a maximaom of pleasure to
the public able to attend the s
sions which are to be held fore-
noon, afternoon and evening each

day.

The adjudications of the various
classes, they point out, re
education in themselves, coverin,

as they do the entries in. piano-
forte, vocal, folk dancing, rhythm
bands, choirs, school choirs, duets
etc.

Preferences |

immigrants so optimistically spoken. Ti
0!

The last period from 1911 to 1940,serious dimensions.

So in t

no time in future supply
of our raw iven these
we can safely leave it to our manu-
facturers, whose record in the past

five years is so outstanding, to use
them in an economical and profit-
able manner.

| _We now approach the disposaj of
our surplus goods. We can never
expect the balance of Canada to ab-
sorb very much of our products. The
goods we manufacture are such that
each province has a_ sufficient
quantity for its own consumption.
| We have always had to find a mar-
ket outside Canada for about 75 per-
cent of our products.

The world markets are divided in-
to three areas:

The Sterling Area consisting of
the Commonwedlth of Nations (ex-
cluding Canada) a large part of
Europe, the Dutch, French and Bel-
gian Empires, all of Africa and two-
thirds of Asia.

The Dollar Area, consisting of the
Western Hemisphere;

and Russia, on a gold and barter
basis. Sy

In the past we have found the
Sterling Area to be the most stable
and satisfactory market. However,
Britain is no longer in a position to
purchase large quantities of our
, Boods. She impoverished herself de-
\fending democracy. Britain has no
dollars to spare to purchase our
goods. She enjoys the use of our
fruits, dairy products, lumber end
fish, but if necessary she will keep
her belt tightened and purchase only
her direst necessities in these goods,
and that within the Sterling Area.
here is one way in which we can
trade with her, and that is to re-
duce our tariffs that she may ship
to this country her manufactured
goods that we need and so place her-
self in a position to buy our surplus
products.

As far as the Dollar Area is con-
cerned, it does not need our produce.
The Dollar Area became rich and
obtained almost all the world’s gold.
It built numbers of huge stream-
jaibed factories for mass production
of every conceivable type of product
and trained millions of workers in
new trades and methods. All this on
borrowed time
Kingdom while she heroically fought
the Battle of Britain. Thus we can-
not expect to find a market in this
area.

This leaves Russia, but as she is
well supplied with the raw materials
to manufacture the same products
that we wish to sell, we cannot look
for much help there is disposing of
our goods.

Therefore it is my opinion that
we must look again to the Sterling
Area as our safest and most reliable
market, as we proved in the pre-war

lays.

There is* therefore, I believe, a
duty to be performed by influential
organizations such as this Board of
Trade:

First, they should urge by every
possible means that our future sup-
Mply of raw materials be assured by
immediate action to this end;

Second, they should make it per-
fectly clear, in no uncertain terms,
to their representatives in the East,
that some adjusment of tariffs must
be arranged so that the United King-
dom can sell her manufactured
goods (which we need) in the Dol-
lar Area, thus enabling her to secure
enough dollars whereby she car

alone since 1913 till now was about|PUrchase our products (which she

so sorely needs). This in defiance of
the Eastern interests, who will be
quite willing to protect themselves.
at the cost of our industrial life.

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