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THE GUARDIAN EDIIURIAL NOTES -

r Morning Dally (Founded in 1887-. Authorized an Second Clue Mail. Past 011i" Department. Ottawa.

President. Ian A. Burnett: Vlce-lresidenl. Win R. Burnett; SCCL-TIQEL, G. M. Burnett; Editor ‘and Managing Director. J. R. Burnett; Aasociiltc ill-ill"!- Franli Walker.

Twenty-two days till the Election. a w n a t Tomorrow, Twenty-fourth fiinday Trinity;"Charity suffereth long and is kind." I I W i Canada's trade mission

task. Under Trade Minister MacKinnori it took

t “The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than v _. i the Weakest Ink."

CllAlILO'l"1‘l£T0\VN. snuiwnv. NOV. 15. i941

_—”Rura| carom;

be developed along with increased imports. D i * I

" Lauvain University, near Brussels, which recently conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws _ on Prime Minister Mackenzie King, was found-

HOW lffeilmhslhle lh" “has Glllemmehl '5 ed in i426, fifteen years after.the establishment towards its election pledges may be |udged from at 5t Andtevm the fact that in the Legislature last year, while ~ - w w the House was in committee on the Estimates, Rtfssta has cjaitaaa batata that Sha a|taady Mr. Dougold MacKinnon, the Premier's colleague has the atomic bama jt is aaita a" the cards in the Belfast district, said he could not remem- that she may have taken advaataaa at a minor be!‘ 9V" hhvlhg "Wile °"Y P'°'hl5° ‘h W43 ‘h garthquake in Siberia to foster the belief that she connection with rural ellctrification. TlllStis master at the atam pledge figured as No. l3 in the Liberal Platform * - - - of i943 to which Mr. MacKinnon subscribed, The New yotk Hera/djftibungs saaaastiaa and on which’ he W05 defied hi lhhl hme- “Qthat a "Canadian-American Dollar" be adopted "Qhlh hPPeh" l" the 111"" Gwerhlhhhl Plhllhlm [would certainly do away with the premium we 0f 1-947. b"? lei-hi he"? MT- M"¢Kl"h°"'5 Ye"! now have to pay for the use of American dol- °Plhl°h 0i "5 meflhsr "5 Ohm" l" lhe "W" lars. lt would mean, however, that instead of last sessioni ,becoming expensive the common currency would

"l dim’! lJEllBVE (5014 MT- M°¢Kl""°"l lhebeccime unobtainable in this country. Government will take that over on a large scale.t fl it a lf you give it to one man you have got to give‘; it to every man in the Province. Otherwise if l was living on the back road, and my taxes were paid, to give those facilities to some other man l would say was not fair. I would say it has got to be proceeded with carefully. lt is a progres- sive thought, but I know where there are ten miles of power lines running through ten miles of farming country, and there is not one indiv- _ - - n - idual on that road avails himself of that policy."' The atawtaa at saga, beets may became a

M" MhcKlhhflh “"5 "emlhhed "Y the 0P‘ new Maritime industry according to reports P053511" lhhl he "h" hmmh" “"55 "h" l°lhllY from Moncton. lsland farmers however will reviewed their platform at Eldon in the i943 cam» ta“ ta sea the advantage at a'radactna zastty PhlQh "h" lhhl M" MhcKlhhhlh ha" ehdmhed sugar here at the expense of the taxpayer and ll "5 °P9"l"9 “P l° lhls P'°"'l"c° "hhe Whole“ at the same time neglecting West lndianlmar- possibilities ever dreamed of." He confessed that pets tat a,” mate ecanamtcattth Sound potato he had forgotten that too! _ “on

Now it is proposed in the Liberal manifesto i- w- i ~ to undertake rural electrification on a "large |t is watth Whija visiting the Prince Edward scale" indeed; but Mr. MacKinnon says he Theatre to see "The Yearling" the MG.M Prize doesn't believe the Joties Government will ever pktuta j, is bttmtat at dattacraaa episodes 5° lhhl- Jhdfillhg hm" The Gweihmehlls lec‘ hunting scenes, domestic controversies humor: "F" l" ihh Push "M" "'5 lhllhhe l" ehhhclhle hhY ous interludes, and, above all, juvenilclprecoclt- P°h¢Y l" lhe l-efiilslhlhfe °" "ml"? hhY Pl°vlsl°h ies appealing to the emotions. Today and to- l" lhe hmmhlesr h‘ l5 Pmhhhli’ "lghl- night are the last opportunities which should be

The clhhselvhllvesr Wh° "he "l5" Pled9°d h’ availed of by parents and children alike who a - rural electrification, have the merit of being ptecgate a aaaa stat), and tirst, class acfln p consistent. They have protested many times w r r. t 9' against the neglect of this very important mat- ter. They are in full accord with the Farmers‘ Federation in the view that "the building up of a progressive, vigorous, intelligent type of farm citizen is dependent to a very great extent on the conveniences that are available in our rural areas," and that "electric light, water and power services atAcost within the economic range of the farmer, are three of the main factors that

Evidently were freight cars available, there will be a tremendous increase in potato ship- ments this Fall and Winter. The late harvest- ing provided the railway with a convenient alibi for delay in transportation. lt is a blessing we have now so much frost-proof accommodation to enable shippers to store their supplies.

_ Domesday Book completed this date i086. This is an English statistical survey carried out by orders of William the Conqueror, contained Ill two volumes (which are still preserved); North West England is not included, but cach county in the other parts is divided into hundreds and entries are given of all land, its owner, live stock, peasants, etc.; it was compiled to ascer- tain the value of land and its taxable capacity;

lhllhehce lhe lull"?- °l "Wlchllhle l" lhls and is of inestimablc value as an historical PMVIHCE. sourale, particularly for genealogy and topo- - . 9MP Y- ~ Ottawa's Obligations - - ~ - Senator Foster of New Brunswick, former The question of Dominion-Provincial rela- Premier of that province, was one Qf [[1953 out.

tionships has been revived by the protests of the Premier of Quebec against the method by which Ottawa has conducted discussions with New- foundland. The Halifax Chronicle. (Liberal), notes with interest that some at least of those who, in the recent past hove been inclined to regard the new agreements between the Domin- ion and seven of the Provinces regarding tax- ation as purely financial arrangements, have come to recognize that the constitutional issues involved are more important tthan appeared at first sight.

it is axiomatic, the Chronicle maintains, that the body which controls finance will ulti- mately control every other field of government. That has been the judgment of history, and there is no apparent reason to expect that this trend will vanish in the immediate future. For any central government to settle its financial status with associating provinces before it has gone thoroughly into the constitutional issues allied with the subject is to put the cart before the horse, and to take from the lesser bodies most if not all of their bargaining power in the future.

Hitherto there has been a tendency for the Dominion Government to stand pat on the legalistic interpretation of the terms of the British North America Act. Yet it is precisely these t:rms which should have come under in- vestigcfian, and possibly of review, before any financial reorganization was undertaken at all. The BNA Act is not an unalterable contract, and the Maritimcs at Confederation were given the assurance that if might be revised. To quote the late Hon. Norman Rogers: "Express obligations laid down in the BNA Act must be kept. They are statutory obligations. But this is merely the irreducible minimum of Federal justice. We are entitled to invoke not merely the letter of the Federal instrument, but the spirit of Federal institutions, which we conceive to be a spirit of compromise and equity, tende ing constantly to the preservation of the cul- _ turolpsocial oiid economic life of the political Two years later, on November l6 194i two ertitios which compromise the Federal union. We t Canadian battalions and auxiliary ‘troops’ or-

sidc appointees to Federal Cabipet rank who was subsequently defeated at the polls. But Prime Minister Mackenzie King looked after him all right, appointing him in i928 to the Senate of which he became Speaker in i936. His young- est daughter married Mr. John E. McCready, Saint John. scn of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. E. B. McCready, Charlottetown. A correspondent writes protesting against the action of the British Government in refus- ing to permit the presentation of an address from the British Catholics signed in the official des- ignation of the Cardinal head of the Church in Great Britain. The Government had no alterna- tive as it is one of the idiosyncracies of the law which was not remedied at the time of Catholic Emancipation or since. Public attention having now been featured upon it, there can hardly be any doubt that the law will, in due ccvrse, be amended in consononce with the United Nations policy of Freedoms. The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has had to leave the Labour Government due to an indiscretion in disclosing the contents of his budget before submitting his propuggd changes to Parliament, is one of the most cul- tured members of the House, educated at Eton and Cambridge and o distinguished Reader in the London School. of Economics at the some time that Prime Minister Aftlsc was Tutor and Lecturer there in Social Science. They become great friends and "leftist" politicians, and have stuck ta one another cver since, both in the Churchill Coalition Government, and in the pres- ent Labour Government. lf is interesting to note that Dalton was a great friend and college chum cf John McRae of "lii Flanders Fields" urdying reputation. r “Eight years ago November l5, Canadian Military Headquarters was organized and open- ed "for business" in London,‘Englond.

after

African countries has completed its immediate

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Senator Thomas of Oklahoma to European and Sh" "h m" elilhi

.World War I before the price level t finally was set. 1n 1926." But 1t took

only three years after that. before

the realistic attitude that export trade can only l" “'85 badly "PSQI- S0 Where do

v.-e go from beret-Kansas City Star.

In addition to the 21.014 ltate rental houses erected 1n New Zen- ,l-.nd since 1937, the government. r has loaned since 1935 to private 1n- divlduals, numbering 28,124, a sum equivalent to $117,200,000 for the erection or purchase of houses. - Ottawa Citizen.

If you didn't already know it. you siroulcl be interested to know that the expression. "Between the devil and the deep blue sea." originated ill 1637 when a. Scottish regiment was trapped between the ocean and. Swedish artillery fire. —- St. Cath- arine: Standard.

When the Fraser Valley delta duck-shooting season was three days old, farmers reported the loss of one horse, one dog_ 11 tur- keys and one chicken, and the wounding of two cows. These were tlre "trophies" that fell before the guns of those entitled to shoot: waterfowl. — Victoria. Tlmes.

I -___ | A Cambridge, England, tax firm ; has set pp; permantant shafitlwatvte

commun ca on serv ce w s iCKIS. When a client rings up for tr. car, the car nearest. to him ls pickea olut on a matp fir! oxéaierred ‘oywreess to go a ea ess concerned. The firm expects at least: o. 20 prlagcerrrt trtpvlng tin gnsollnetas a resu o e sys em, says rie United K1 gdom Information Of- f' D

ice.

, A letter from a British buainesl man 1n Pakistan paints a grim picture of the scenes there notably

at. Lahore. One aspect of which l 11c newspaper reports have said

little is indicated 1n one pregnant sentence: “About half the town burnt out; no shops open, no banks and no government; municipal ex- penses 17,100,000 per day, munlcl- pal income R18 per clay." In a postscript the writer adds: “About 2.000.000 are praying to a variety cf gods for the return of the British.“ There ls no doubt an ele- ment of exaggeration there; but there ls no doubt equally an ele- ment of truth 1n it. - London Spectator.

There is no tenant for Vidkun Quisllngs castle. located a short. distance from Oslo. the amazing architectural combination which the late traitor erected at State ex- pense. now stands empty. Since the war, the multi-roomed building has been occupied by a foreign 611111’)- nrat, Baron Koenlgswarter who is now leaving Norway to take up a new post. 0n the market for some weeks, the Qulsllng mansion now appears‘ to be too costly for any Norwegian and there have been no takers —desp1te the Oslo hous- lug shortage. It 1s indicated that. the Government will 0055M)’ Mk6 over the residence for conversion liito a. home for the aged. —Nor- "negian News Letter.

Diogenes set himself an easy task by comparison with that. uri- clcrtaken by the taxation dlvislori of the National Revenue Depart- ment. The ancient Greek only went. looking with a lantern for mi honest an. The tax collectors are huntl g-so far without suc- cess~for a high-powered public relations expert who can persuade taxpayers to make honest returns vxlthOilb fuss, evasion or delays. 1t is hardly surprising that the de- partmenl. has fatlecbto find the nizin it wants among several can- didates already interviewed. The Iyob 1s a somewhat formidable and l

delicate onejon a par with trying Itc convince a child that it is an unqualified pleasure to take bad- tustlng medicine or eajollng the Soviet Union into preferring co- ‘operatlon on its own initiative- - ‘jlontreal Gazette.

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It is fundamental for the nura

l iii industry to work under" the d1-

icr-rlon of a physician. This ‘rm-

poi-tarii professional "ei5ll°"5"\i>

lras been stabllslicd by basic hos- ,p1ta1 training and 1s maintained l l7) the nurse 1n hospital. on pri- lvaie duty and 1n public health . activities. Nurses employed 1n \vc‘l- jorgunlzed medical departments

acrually have few adjustments to maize from hospital to industry. While 1t may be desirable for ad- IIIllIiSIFBLlVE purposes. for the nurse Lo be responsible to an executive office: of tlie plant. 1t is essen- rral that. she give health counsel and treatment under medical au- thority. A full-time or part-time‘ physician plans and coordinates all phases of the industrial medical service. preventive. curative and rehabilitative. --- Industrial Health Bulletin.

"A horse-drawn coach of dark mood, upholstered 1n whtte and with carpeted steps. which carried the man who influenced the Que- bec Act. 1774. and the Constitu- tional Aet, 1791. and who turned

contend that the BNA Act is not final or un- lrfved at Hang K-ang aboard the troopship oltcrable, but that on the contrary its future re- ~ "Awntea". Four years ago this month as Qisionvrasclearly implied in the character of the i winter set in, Canadian troops were fighfing ‘negotiations that preceded its enactment and in heroically as part of the British Eighth Army in, the assurances given by the British Government Itritv. On November 20, the Eighth secured] ‘that its terms would be modified in so for as control of the lower Sangro River after a jffiey were pretpdicial to the Maritime portion of fierce baftlef At that time too, .we were past. 1”" 09mm”?- _ _ _ ing Europe with everything we had and on the ._ This point of view, maintains our Halifax 21st, 775 Allied bombers paid rvisit to Berlin. liberal contemporary, was entirely ignored iii . Three years ago this month Canadia llhlll Dominion-Provincial negotiations of last troops battling alongside their allies in Nortl-l trot-t" Nov‘ that the conversations with New- west Europe were closing in onpGermiiny. d. r iiii oiid m reopened the constitiifioniihissue l’fI_8 28th November the Ciraudiere Regiment w": iltracf its ships Wlllll o gassed the borders of that country-the fi f , i o u-opcnirigo cmggtg enodian troo s into German since We d- !» Ill. ' ' w.» i, p ' ,

back the United States invasion of Canada 1775-1770. ls to be pre- sented to the archives by the present Earl of Dar-cheater." The toach was that of Sir Guy Carle- ton, Quartermaster General o General Wolfe in the siege of Quebec and later Governor-in- Chief of North Ameglcl, 1798-1796, who later became the first Lord of Orr-cheater. Lady Dbrciiester gives

years after

. The following

SALTY PASTUBEI

Down a steep hillside of tihe sea. Clfrnbl-ng a further slope.

The fishing smack slides easily And clambers up to grape.

For the lop of a green and curling crest

Like a hilltop thick with ferns.

While blossoms- spray the helvns man's chest.

And the wide red sunset bunna.

The next bright wove. The ruddy sails

Are stout and homeward wings d

Over salty pastures. Silver scaiel

Are cleaned while the helmsmiiri si-ngs.

Down a twilight hill and up again.

Up a starlit hill and down.

The fishing smack and her brown hard men

Sight the landfall-lights of town.

—Frances Frost in New York Tlrmes.

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7\'/\?\7\L\7v Old Charlottetown (And P. I. I.) ....L__-

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l UNEMPLOYMENT PROJECTS

From The Examiner, Jan. 28, rsso: By request of H1: Worship,

Mayor Dawson, a. meeting of rep- resentative citizens was held in the City Council Chamber on Mon- day evening, trhe 19th. 1nst.. for the purpose of considering the best means of providing work for the unemployed poor of the city. Four plans of relief were verbally aub- mltted:

1. The establishing 0f a wood- yard. _

2. The completion, by the City Corporation. of the breastwork at Victoria Park.

3. The repairing, by the local Government, of the breastwork 1n front of Government House.

4. The construction of a bridge across the North River, from Brighton Road.

To carry out. the first of these plans a Central Committee was appointed consisting of Messrs. A. A. MacDonald, L. L. Beer. James Peake, John Ings, W. D. Stewart, George Davies and John Pickard, nlth the Mayor and Stlpendlary Magistrate as members ex-offlclo. This Committee has opened sub- scriptions for the purchase of a quantity of firewood, to be placed iii n convenient; yard where the poor are to be employed, and paid by the hour or day, 1n chopping 1t to a suitable size ‘for kindling. 11 was estimated that $500 would set a first-class woodyard 1n op- eration, and that the wood could be had cheaply along the line of the Railway.

Regarding the second plan. it was remarked that $4.000 WOI-lld complete the breastwork around Victoria Park; and now that labour ls cheap, the Corporation should use its best endeavors to have the work performed.

The work mentioned 1n the third plan should. in the opinion of those present. be done immediate- 1y. The breastwork referred to is daily going to destruction for want. of rgpplr. By repairing it the local Government would save consider- able, while at the same time af-

rdlng much employment for those 1n need.

The fourth plan considered did

not. meet with the apprbvfll o! the meeting although ll] prewlt would, doubtless, be glad t0 S69 the bridge constructed. ‘The esti- mated cost of constructing a bridge across North River from Brighton Road ls $21,009. A gentle- man present remarked that half rriis cost. could be raised by DTlVBi-e subscription among the farmers of West River; and if the City 8W9 h grant towards its construction, the Local Government. might e in- duced to commence the wor . The building at‘ this bridge would af- ford employment for the laborers 0i this City for three or four years; 4A resolution asking the Local t Government to commence the work lmmedlntey was put. to the meet- ing, but it. was withdrawn when tlrc'mover was reminded that as ihe Local Government were new engaged 1n repairing the numer- luus bridges and wharves destroy- ‘cu by the late storm, they would 1mg likely move 1n the matter; land even if they were not so en- .5335 at such expensive ivorlcs, and were they willing to construct. the North River Brldze. with the ‘advice of the meeting. it! 00n- strucflon would not afford any re- lief to the poor at present. as it ceulcl not. possibly be commencel "for some time to come-

The three first plans were con- sidered very feasible. They could be worked with very little delay. and would grant. speedy relief. sub-commltte of two persons from each Ward was appointed to report to the Cen- tr-nl Committee on the deetitution existing 1n their respective wards: Ward 1: P. B. Bowers. ‘D- Flfquh"

rson; Ward 2: O Palmer. W- Flnlay; Ward 3: M. P. Hogan‘ "Thomas Flynn; Ward 45,0. F. Har- ris F. '1‘. Newbery: Word 5: J, L. Hazard-A. MncKlnnon.

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reluctant consent to parting with the old vehicle, which tin been lii the family care for so long, and she can hardly be blamed for the sentiment. But lord Dir-cheater wants the coach to be preserved in qarisda. It must boa ltout relic, built 1n times when there were not

med roads. 5t. Catharina Bund-

eeua fella. To lifi ‘W’ IIiiIIIIIIIlr-III 0% %fi“”e~~~~

‘should be incorporated-

Ihll colllln h open to the dlooldon by corro- queatloiia‘ oi Charlottetown Guardian doeo not neutr- lly endorle the opinion of oormpoiideiiia. "

BELT TO A GOVERNMENT I-MPLOKEI

Bun-Referring to the "hope- lessly helpless" MacMlllan Party and its record for 1931-35. referred to by Professor J. W. Arsenault of Prince of Wales College, may I suggest that Mr. Arsemiult. learn some educational history.

.Who built. and equipped the Prince of Wales College, one of the finest normal schools 1n Can- ada. at. the extremely low cost of 3286.000? The Stewart-Macmillan Government. with Dr. W. J. Mae- Mlllm es first Minister of Educa- tion. .