Mae Saturday, July 22, 1944 British Columbia’s forest wealth, which is columms the following impression, general at the time, of ze telephone: “A man about forty-six years of age, giving a n2e name of Joshua Coppersmith, has been attesied in New 1 York for attempting to extort funds from ignorant s)2d superstitious people by exhibiting a device which he ys will convey the human voice any distance over metallic wes, so that it will be heard by the listener at the hee end. He calls the instrument ¢ “telephone,’ which obviously intended to imitate the word “telegraph” and ‘ta the confidence of those who know the success of the j tec instrament without understanding the principles on \ hich wt, ts based. Well-informed people know that if ts | ;possible to iFansmit the human voice over wites as may mu? done with dots and dashes and signals of the Morse ade, and that, were it posstble, to do so, the thing would 8) Of no practical value. The authorities who apprehended 014s ccimuinal are to be congratulated, and it is to be hoped wat his pumshment will be Prompt and fitting, and at tt, may serve as an example to other conscienceless © 2emers who enrich themselves az the expense of their J i low creatures.” jg) ICH was the estimate, as recently as 80 years ago, of what has become known today as one of the seven wonders “this world—the estimate of a noted paper and authority. ‘bat a tragedy for us if that ignorance had not been suc- ssfully challenged by those who had the inventive genius : | give us the telephone. : BSTACLES to the full devel- opment of the policies made possible by the Teheran agree- ment are to be found wherever Similarly, for years we were myths about the Soviet don, its army, its government, people: Phe Red Army was : Green Gold for the Peace EXPORT CABINET Worn EXPORT MAN DAYS OF DIRECT LABOUR RE ‘OF STANDING TIMBER To E AMARA This chart illustrates the increasin employment provided by increasing degrees of manufacture of a Shs base ts 1000 BM! ot Standing timber. Increasing manufacture without requiring an increase in the depletion of forest resources. given quantity ‘of standing timber provides an increase in total employment Prepared by Bureau of Economics and Statistics PAPER BAGS KRAFT PAPER ~ Locs Locs EXPORT ) —>) ———_ = F r > cad R R MAA AANA ht — i EXPORT, PLY WOOD Locs LOGS ROUGH GRITN LUMBCR CXPORT- . oa , <———_ ——_ A —— ——— ——_s , EXxPory, NEWSPRINT LOGS Loss SHINGLES EXPORT, E fF ——— <—— —_— R » R ee >> 4.ocs a RA FINISHED DAY LUMBER ao SASHES ent COOKS fe RARAARAL =o QUIRED TO CONVERT i000 FBM. XPORTABLE PRODUCTS pone CAC ONT the ships; similiarly, the (Eas ; ——__> aaa number of man days of direct Departmen? of Trade and Industry, Nictoria , B.C. Q Represents one man day of direct labour mee SEES export J product ae The number of man days of direct labour required to pene a product for export is represented by the number of eas under labour required to refine the timber at each stage is represented by the number. of figures below the product. RAKAR ak and leaderless we were d; the Soviet government is annical and oppressive, the tiple backward and unecul- = ed, Soviet industry ineffici- + and powerless and Soviet wale low. Those myths have W been shattered for all time. foday the achieyements of * Soviet Union, together with } remarkable gains of the “r United Nations, have laid || basis for transforming the sire world situation. The eeram of the United Nations fd out the immediate prospect Evictory in the war—and just ssurely opens up a new post- Prospect for world prog- => and an enduring peace. . turning point has been hed by mankind, and the mest hopes of all democratic tare today within our reach. of course, like the inventor he telephone, like those who teered the social experiment the USSR (without which ory might never have been sible), we have the pitfalls = =featism, lies and distortions Sontend with. there is opposition to, or skep- ticism concerning the fulfill- ment of that goal. It is there- fore not only: important to know that these agreements are the foundation stones for an endur- ing peace and a long period of production and employment; it is important that they be ap- plied to each industry. Our No. 1 postwar problem, of course, is to see that we win this war, and that we win it as quickly and with as little loss as possible. That is why labor has and wall continue to place so much emphasis on the ques- “tion of full and continuous pro- duction. Without winning: the war, we will never even have the chance of winning the peace. The lumber workers of Brit- ish Columbia have done an amazing job in helping produce the tools of war that have . brought victory nearer. In 1941, although the lumbering industry supplied its full quota of fight- ing men to the armed services, the Canadian forest industries turned out practically double the 1938 record, to produce a net value of just over a billion dol- lars worth of lumber and wood byproducts for victory. Canadian lumber went for naval, military and air estab- lishments and equipment: Queen Charlotte Island spruce for ply- wood sheaths for aircraft wings and fuselage; chemically treat- ed woods for alcohol for the manufacture of explosives and rubber; wood for doors, baskets, barrells, boxes, canoes, silos, spools, furniture, doffins, agri- culture implement, railway stock, boats, brooms, cars, tanks, wall boards, insulating ma- terial, rayon silks, cellophane, imitation leather, fountain pen barrels, phonograph and dicto- phone records, linoleum, plas- ties, smokeless powder and even yeast cakes. Few of us, I am sure, actually appreciate just how vitally important lumber production has been to the United Nations’ war effort, nor just how our productiveness has increased. We have learned to produce many times the volume of goods that we formerly did, and with fewer people. Will this mean then, the shutting down of our factories ,and bigger relief lines than we had during the depres- sion ? This is just what it must mean, if we only think in terms of going back to the standard of 1939. There is clearly only one alternative for us, and that is to find a way to make full use of our new industrial capac- ity, by raising the standard of living of our people, and by finding markets for all our sur- plus products. This means high- er wages here, and the friend- liest relations with other coun- tries. new world war.” WHEN victory has been won and fascism destroyed, the United Nations will be faced with a Europe that is completely and utterly devastated. Cities, industries, power plants, buildings, railroads, mines, factories, bridges, roads and even farms will have been destroyed. Tens of millions of people are already homeless, lit- erally starving and in rags, as pestilence and disease take their toll in exhausting civilian te_ sources. The extent of the devastation is illustrated best by the gov- ernment statement, that in the Soviet Union alone, an area which was previously populated by more than 70,000,000 people has been almost levelled to the - ground. In Britain, which has not been exposed to anything like the devastation of active battle- ground areas of HEurope and Asia, it is authoritatively esti- mated by the ministry of supply. that better than one out of every five homes has been seriously damaged or destroyed in the blitz and during subsequent air raids and now by the robot bombs. Obviously the Huropean peo- ple will need all the things that we can produce. The Soviet Union, which has suffered in- calculable losses, will require whatever surplus materials we can send for years to come. In- dia, China and the Far Hast, facing the problems of recon struction and development, will provide a ready market for ma- chines and goods which we alone will be able to produce. We have successfully har- nessed our forest resources to meet the challenge of war. We can and must harness those Same resources to fill the neeas of those peoples who have bravely withstood all the hor- rors and suffering of war—war that has killed their loved ones and destroyed their possessions —that we might be spared the Same fate. ACCORDING to a statement * made by A. S_ Mather, President of the National Gon. struction Council of Toronto, “Britain’s minimum postwar emergency housing program ealls for the establishment of five hundred thousand tempor- ary homes.” And Britain’s housing needs constitute only a small raction of the problem facing those countries which will be called upon to Supply the bulk of building ma- terial for the reconstruction of Hurope. In his report, Mather states: “There is not only the rebuild- « ing of Britain’s bombed areas, but those of Europe as well. There are no figures for Hrance, Italy and other allied or cap- tive countries, but in Germany alone it is estimated twelve —Continued on Page 10.