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Mr. MacKinnon’s Retirement Had it been at a Conservative in-

stead of a Liberal convention that Hon. Dougald MacKinnon announced his .retirement from active politics, we venture to say that the tributes to his popularity and integrity would have varied little from those paid him by his own party stalwarts at Eldon on Thursday night. He will carry on _ until the next provincial election, but he firmly refused to nominate again.

Well, twenty-four years in. politics is a long time, especially if you work hard at the job and serve your con- stitutents’ interests as your own. For several years past, as Minister first of Public Works and Highways, then of Industry and Resources and latter- ly of Fisheries as well, Mr. Mac- Kinnon’s constituency was the whole Province, and he gave the same con- scientious attention to these duties

as he did to the requirements in his

own bailiwick as a back-bencher.

Back-bencher is hardly the word, for Mr. MacKinnon never took a back seat: anywhere. He and the late Sen- ator Jones entered politics together in 1935, and from the start they were an unbeatable team. Mr. MacKinnon actually made the grade first as a non-portfolio member of the Campbell Government; but both of them were seasoned debaters when they entered the House, and not at all inclined to be intimidated by members of greater pretentions on either side.

Senator Jones, though he tried to disguise it, was a highly educated man, and Mr. MacKinnon always claimed that he was not. To watch these two professed amateurs on the hustings in their early campaign days was an entertaining and instruc- tive lesson in the tricky art of poli- tics. Like the late Will Rogers, they eonfessed to knowing nothing more. than what they had read in the news- papers ; but the unwary opponent who accepted this idea, and presumed to take advantage of fhem on any sub- ject—political, moral, philosophical or sociological—was soon pulled up short and was lucky to escape with his tail-feathers. That was one of the

joys (to a reporter at least) of the ;

old joint-meeting days, when rival candidates went at it hammer and tongs on the same platform, and the incompetents were spotted and weed- ed out before they ever got on the legislative payroll.

From the day he was elected in 1935 Mr. MacKinnon went on piling up majorities in every contest. He could coast along now on his laurels and get back next time, we imagine, with very little difficulty. But the traits for which he is admired do not fit him for that kind of old- soldiering. Feeling, no doubt, that his health will not stand the all-out effort he has put into his public chores in the past, he is stepping down to give place to a younger aspirant.

His friends may regret his choice, but will understand his reasons. That goes for Conservatives as well as Liberals. Indeed, some will be inclined to say that Dougald MacKinnon has more true friends’ in the enemy camp then he has in his own, and that his merits entitled him to much more then he ever received from the Liberal Party. Be that as it may, we know that the Party will never havea stauncher champion, a shrewder ad- viser or abler expounder of its policies and principles. The best wishes of all his fellow Islanders will accompany him in his retirement when it comes.

Sounds Timely Warning _ Addressing an investment deal- ers’ convention in Toronto recently, Mr. N. R. Crump, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, made _ Sage reflections on Canada’s chang- ing position in international trade. Canadians, he said, should reappraise certain assumptions which have come to be accepted as landmarks in their economic life. These as- sumptions are often reflected in public and business policies, and are widely, but erron ly, considered to be self-evident truths. 3 At the top of the list Mr. Crump

__ placed the assumption that the world

economy needs us more than we néed it. (isn’t that behind every de- mand for tariff boosts?) There was

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In Mr. Crump’s view, the in- dustrial burgeoning of _ Western Europe has made world trade more intensely competitive than*at any time in Canada’s history. The com- petition will become even keener when the European Common Mar- ket produces the results expected oi it. Canada still sells large quan- tities of the traditional export com- tmodities, but not as high; a pro- portion as we could, or as we used to. In most cases these products can be bought elsewhere and often at lower prices. The business we re- tain often is held because of some advantage other than price which we can offer. It will become increas- ingly difficult to hold if the price gap widens. ve

Monty's Braces

The most curious sights at the Aldershot and Searchight Tattoo this month, says a London report, ure to be seen in an Army exhibition placed beside the arena. Pride of place among mementoes of many wars goes to Lord Montgomery’s braces. They were once thought to have been lent him by his batman, when his own broke in the heat of battle in. Normandy. In fact, the disaster happened after the war, when Monty was leaving the War Office for the theatre. A sergeant major lent him his own pair and later presented them to the RASC museum at Aldershot. —

So there they are, proving that fame can be measured by trivial things as well as great. Beside the braces are Napoleon’s personal den- tal instruments, a- two-man wheel- barrow used as a field ambulance in China, and the gun metal from Sebastopol, from which all VCs are still made. They have been salvaged for posterity, and—who knows?— posterity may treasure than above many of the glittering ornaments a geateful nation bestows upon its war commanders.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Schoolchildrén in India’s Deep South cheered recently when the Communist Government of Kerala state postponed the opening of schools by a fortnight to June 15. The move was an effort to avoid a real clash, if not bloodshed, between the Communists and the non-Commun- ists, mainly the Catholics, over the Education Act. What Kerala's chil- dren did not realize, of course, was that a desperate battle had begun for their young minds.

7 oJ oJ Motorists should wear hats, ac- cording to an English doctor. The doctor is not so much concerned about fashion or the effect of the sun. His point is simply that, in the even of an accident, a hatted head is less likely to get bashed in than a bare one. Should head and wind shield come into sudden and violent contact, a hat in between would ab- sorb a good deal of :the blow. The cap that the doctor himself wears when he is driving (he. tested it) can absorb 60 per cent of a 4,000 pound impact. » o -

From many parts of the * United States protests have gone up con- cerning the sharp rise in automobile liability insurance rates. At the same time insurance companies cite losses of many millions of dollars on their automobile underwriting busi- ness. In Massachusetts and New York State the pressure of motorists’ costs is felt a little more intensely than elsewhere, since these two sta- tes require each owner to show in- surance coverage in order to register his car.

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All three opposition leaders were defeated in the Alberta elections on Thursday. Combined, their followers will scarcely amount to a corporal’s guard in the next House. The Social Crediters practically swept the board in their seventh consecutive victory at the polls. Liberals who may be nursing hopes of doing the same thing in this Province should remem- ber that Alberta has been riding the crest of ‘the wave financially, with rich oil deposits that have turned staggering deficits into whopping surpluses, enabling the Manning Gov- ernment to play Santa Tlaus to the voter's on a scale unparalleled in-Can- adian history.

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Our House of Commons has vo- ted unanimously to adopt an is- olated house in the Quebec Hills as the official summer home for the use of Canada Prime Minist- ers and for the entertainment of distinguished visitors.

“As the acquisition of the house was purely incidental to our pur- chase of a critical area of jand needed for the Gatineau National Par, we would most likely have decided to pull # down if it had not been put to this yse."’ Gen- eral Kennedy, chairman of the. National Capital Commission, told me, The progressive pian to build this former lumber town into a

by Parliament exactiy 60 years ago. In 1899. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier inaugurated the Ottawa Improvement Commission “to improve and beautify the Na-. tional Capital by the develop - ment of parks and construction

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tional park enclosing the south- | for moose pasture im the hinter-

ern crest of Quebec's Gatineau Hills, This area includes magni- ficent countryside for summer walks and winter ski-rails, at-

Incidental to the land purchase, the commission got various build- ings standing on it, the two sum-

tractive picnic settings and sandy | mer homes of Col. Edwards and lakeshore beaches. Rt also offers | of hie frend, ex-Ambassador W.

a breath-taking view of Greater Ottawa, including long stretches of the Ontario and Quebec shores of the Ottawa River.

D. Herridge, a farm, some shacks and boathouses. WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

The commission intends to keep the lake im a state of wilderness. Its steep wooded shores do not offer sandy beaches or picnic sites, as does nearby Lac Phil-

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Mr. Frost On The CBC

Montreal Star

Kt has always been known that the broadcasting of news and com mentaries is a sensitive point in any system of publicly-owned broadcasting. Ik is at that point, if any, that the pressures of gov- ernment are likely to assert themselves. This i« the main reason why. ever since 1936, the CBC has devoted much thought | and great ability to achieving the | greatest possible degree of im-| partiality.

This is why, also, Premier Frost of Ontario has delivered a diatribe against the work of the OBC on election night last week. He believes that, in principle, there should be no public broad- casting, that « should all be ia private hands. He adds that he himself has in actual practice suffered at the hands of the CBC. NOT TELEVISED

The latter charge will surprise most of those who listened to the OBC broadcasts of the Ontario election returns.’ The OBC, now well versed in handing such events, performed, one would have thought, with admirable ob- jectivity. Premier Frost is also annoyed that the leaders of the Liberal and OOF opposition groups were televised, while he was not.

But the CBC has a good answer. The other two men were avail- able where they were.; Insurmonr- table technical difficulties pre- vented putting Mr. Frost on the acreen, for Mr. Frost had retréat- ed to his home at Lindsay, Onj., on election night, and Lindsay is, from TV point of view, inacces- sible. The impression is left that Mr. Frost hag become unduiy sensitive as a result of losing @ few seats.

But the Ontario Premier says that. as a matier of stern’ princi- ple, he is opposed to all public broadcasting. Mt is a pity that Mr. Frost did not take the trouble to present his arguments to tie

those bodies that he and the Government of Ontario, and the Ontario = Progressive-Conserva- tives were opposed to all public broadcasting, it would have car- ried weight. € ESSENTIAL BULWARK

Bereft of his opinion, however, those Commissions have given strong support to the principle ¢f public broadcasting on national grounds. Radio and TV in public hands, they have declared, is a strong, indeed an essential, bul- wark against the steady infiltra-

influence.

This is correct. and most disin- terested Canadians: share the op- inion thus firmly expressed. There is a strong natural tend- ency for Canadian industry to be turned into subsidiaries of Amer- ican industry. Should this happen in the field of radio, and TV, the national consequences would be grievous.

Mr. Frost, to be sure. has his dander up. But Mr. Frost on ma- ture consideration would, we feel sure, take into account the broad considerations which the Royal Commissions have so prop- erly emphasized.

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