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Morning Daily (Founded in i887) Authorised as Second Class Mail. Post Oflloo Department. Ottawa.

President. Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. ft. Burnett: Secy-Tri-usz. G. M. Burnett; Editor and Mflllflglfll Director. .|. R. Burnett: Associate Iliiltor. Frank Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

'.il'0.\'D§1'w'JuYY'1T.'1s4'i‘ The Clan MacLeod

The Cape Bretoners have taken it upon themselves to bring Flora MacLeod of MacLeod, hereditary chieftain of the great clan of her name, to their island this summer, and a sum- mons_has gone out to all members of the clan, meaning anyone by name, or of maternal dres- cent, af MacLeod. Chieftain MacLeod will be present at the annual Gaelic Mod at St. Anne's, N. S., and there she will be introduced to the anticipated large gothering—in Gaelic, of course —by Premier Angus L. Macdonald.

The Eastern Chronicle, which devotes an in- blasting editorial to the subject, anticipates that the MacLeods will come from all North A"!- erica, for on this side of the water they far out- number thcir distant cousins remaining in Skye and the Highlands.

"Cape Bretoners," says our contemporary, "maybe have stolen a march on Pictou in assum- ing the status of perpetrators of Gaelic culture in the new world. More power to them. For the MacLeods it will be a great affair, and one that presumably will attract Pictznians by the score. If every MacLecd in the County of Pictou goes, Cape Breton will burst at the seams." Nor is there any reason, of course, why there should not be a noble contingent from Prince Edward island as well, where also the MacLeods are numerous and flourishing, as befits the descend- ants of the worthy Selkirk settlers and "Pol'y"

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include the incalculable savings and services of these ships to Canada. And, as all nations learn-

ed, an adequate merchant marine is a cardinpl part of an efficient navy faced by sudd-an war.

The new Maritime .Cammission does not

plan to go into shipbuilding. It will not operate ships except for taking the responsibility for any continuing government owned ships now being op- erated by the agency of the Park Steamship Company. It will have three full-time officials, a staff of civil servants, anr‘. such expert tach- nical help as may be employed from time ta rimc.

The commissioners wiil but not maritime freight rates. Th-ey will keep records of costs of marine insurance, mainten ance, repairs, wages and subsistence of officers and crew. They will advise the government on

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THE CH ARLUITEFOWN GUARDIAN

flutes By The Way

their way back to their

racy." - Brantford Expositor.

l life

Canadian Yugoslnvs who are on native country may not find conditions as happy as they have been led to believe. A Kirkland Lake man who returned to Yugoslavia after 20 scars in the Northern Ontario gold mines, shot himself after l5 days or llvlng in‘Tlt.o's “people's democ.

There will always be a public for cheap reading. We have taught everyone to read, and we must expect adolescents, to whom all of is new, to experiment with’ cheaply suggestive fiction. If they’

ado in international shipping conferences.

types of shipping service necessary in Cangdcfs domestic and external trade and represent Can-

standing advisory committee of ship operators, ship builders and seafaring personnel will be set up as soon as possible to discuss matters ccn- ccrning the whole industry. Incidentally, Mr. Howe said Canadian shipbuilders have now sev- cnteen well equipped shipyards in operation em-

iing 300,000 tons.

We should sing rather than say that straw- berries ore again in season. A‘ 1r

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be scarce this y-ear both in this country and in the U. S. * k i’ i

Wing Commander Brendan (Paddy) Finu- core, D.S.O., D.F.C. and two bars, one of tne leading R. A. F. fighting pilots, killed in action this date I942, aged twenty-one.

With all the enthusiasm about our new ferry it would probably be in very bad taste tc mention that the old one was lost away back in

pioneers. The prominent part taken by mem~ bers of the Clan MacLeod in settling the Belfast District in this Province is detailed in thail excellent history by Mr. Malcolm MacQuecn,' K. C., of Winnipeg: Skye Pioneers and "The ls-l Iand". (1929).

According to the Chronicle, the MacLeods date back to 1783 in Pictou County, where one William MacLeod is on record as having re- ceived eighty, and later, two hundred and ten, acres of land. Mr. MacQuc-enk narrative of our Belfast pioneers goes back only to 1803, when Lard Selkirk arrived with his first Canadian sct- tlement of Highlanders, including Malcolm Mac- Leod of Glashvin, Skye, and his wife, Effie Mac- donald, of the Glengarry branch of that clan. Were there MacLeods here before that? At any rate we learn that a few years later, on lunc 2, 1829, there were several MocLeods included in the eighty-four passengers on board the "Mary Kennedy", originally bound for Cape Breton, which reached here after a six weeks’ voyage.

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Latimer House have announced that they are publishing "The Red Spider's Web," by Bcr- nard Newman, a version of the revelations of the Russian spy network in Canada, based on the official report of the Canadian Royal Commis-

The experts are saying that potatoes will lmouche"

.111" 800d homes and good charac-

cannct be imposed upon a nation

ough Examiner.

.ter, it. will not interest them for long. Good taste is an outcome A of character and education; it

by act of Parliament. — Peterbor-

i Durlnx tho operation of UNIIRA Canada has been the third largest

subscription of $154,000,000, exceed-

the United Kingdom. producers have been among greatest beneficiaries,

playing 16,000 men on 122 ships on order totul- ed only by the United States and Canadian I

addition to the Canadian funds

‘fixlwmlcd in Canada. they have also supplied commodities to the value of $i10.000.000 paid for

contributing nations. - Ottawsl Citizen. Across the middle of “Scara-

we came across a swell word, “fribblefl says a writer in The Boston Post. It has been out of general circulation for a long time, and while the first meaning ls "frivolous," it also means "silly" and "contemptlble." You can use it as an adjective or s. noun and the biggest dictionary we have in the office says that its origin is unknown. We insist.‘ it is more ex- pressive than some of the current synonyms such as "jerk" 0r "dope."

behind the expression: you little frlbble."

"CFWEII,

Fashions in manne a change but dirty eating road hogging. Public pawitlg and public brawling have been condemned in all ages. We do not nowadays throw away a. cigar which we have just lit when

And you could put a lot of steam,

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ceiver. Could they have both met the same salesman? R ‘l’ R W

Halifax election today seems a safe bet for

kcnzie King, llsley,_ct al, and went parading with the Liberal candidate. opposition vote between Piogressive Conserva-

The P. E. I. Register and Gazette of that date notes that "with prudent foresight character- istic of their race they came provided with 12, months provisions and on ample stock of wapwl clothing. They have all relatives already settled in the lsland chiefly about Belfast, and with the exception of one family it is, we understand, their intention to locate in that thriving settle- ment." lt was these pioneers who settled Uigg, among them being a man of outstanding acr- sonality, the Rev. Samuel MacLeod. It appears also that the first person buried at Uigg was n MacLeod-Norman by name—who died there 2n olrl man in 1837. _ ‘

In view of the close ties and associations of the clan with Prince Edwaril lsland, perhaps it would be possible to have Chieftain MacLeod pay us a brief visit after the Gaelic celebration at Cope Breton is concluded. Surely, after coming so far, this would be time well expended. There can be no doubt as to the enthusiastic welcome Chief MacLeod would receive if she decided thus to honor us.

The Merchant Marina

The most encouraging statement in Rt. Hon. C. D. Howe's exposition to the house of Con-

iiras and C.C.F.'s should also help materially. A‘ W fr t

The Baby Bonus is paid, of course, to Eski- mos os w-ell as other Canadians. Since the Eski- Vmos have no votes, they are not paid the Bonus in the ordinary way. Thcy arc told that the Bonus cxists, and it is credited to the children until they become old enough to use it themselves. Par- cnts are not permitted to draw Bonus for the'r children, except by permission of the author- ities, and in urgent circumstances.

Fete Nationale of France, the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille in 1789, the beginning of the democratic revolution on continental Eu- rope, which is still in progress, though more along Marxian and Stalin lines than those of the early reformers. Russia and Spain were the two prin- cipal countries which escaped thc influence and effect of Victorian democratic policies; and they still are "Iaws unto themselves" in this re- spcct.

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Attorney-General Large is to be congro'u- 'ated on getting nominated for one of the sects in the First District of Queen's. The trouble for him, however, is the fact that should he be elected it does not necessarily follow he will retain the Attorney-Generalship, it being unusual, that tne constituency should have two portfolios; and al-

ada's new Maritime Commission Act, says an exchange, was not so much the recital how Canada's merchant marine today is six times‘ in tonnage that of 1939; rather, it was how well, the government is getting out of its enormous‘ wartime shipbuilding activities with so compara- tively little real loss. l During this war, Canadian shipyards built; the astonishing total of 445 ships of all types ranging up to three hundred and fifty-nin~e_ I0,- 000 ton ships. Of the latter, ninety weiescld at cost to the U. S. which in turn lease-lent the-m to Britain. The total cost of construction of all these ships was $626.9 millions. On the present basis of sales to private ship operators, Canada should finally recover $418.9 millions or 67 per cent of hcr expenditure, leaving a net loss of $208 millions of which $7.3 millions or 3.5 per cent is due to war and other casualties. Canada entered the war in I939 With 0 merchant marine of only thirty-five ocean going ships of over 1.600 grass tons on hcr register, totalling 241,820 gross tons. As of April _1, I947, Canada's merchant" mnrine numbered 336 ships of aver 1,600 tons each, totalling more than a million and a half gross registered tons -1,667,724 tons to be exact, of merchant ship- ping. Even deducting fifty-two lqrge cargo vas- ssl: operating on the grcal lakes and seventeen passenger ships operating in coastal waters, the Canadian merchant ‘ocean-going vessels at Apri I numbered 142 ocean fraighters and l1 ocean 'ankers totalling 982,869 tons. When eighty? ihips totalling 560,000 tons chartered to BrP-l Illl are returned shortly, Canada will hove an]

recon-going merchant marine close to a million ind o half tons. Tliot is six times hcr merchant recon tonnage in 1939. ,

This ‘is what the Canadian taxpayers have gained for Canada at o pofsibll not expenditure if $3M million dollars. Of course that does not

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ready Agriculture Minister Stewart holds one.

- But perhaps there need be no need worrying over

that, as probably neither will be elected.

Mr. lankov, the N. S. rural beauty expert, who visited here professionally lost week, car- ried away a very favourable impression of the lsland and its rural attractions. Should he .'c- turn next year he will probably see o still further improvement, as the beautification scheme has caught on both in rural and urban centres. It shows a healthy mind in a healthy body for a man and woman to steadily improve the sur- roundings in which they live.

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Hypertension, scourge of modern urban life, said to affect almost 40 per cent of all individu- als over the age of 50 and to be the primary cause of death in the case of almost 15 oer cent of the population, will come, in for special study by the researchers of the Department of Medicine of McGill University. on the disease will be done at the new research insti- tute of bio-physics under the direction of Dr. K. A. Evelyn, who has ‘a brilliant record in sush research ot McGill, in the Royal Canadian Air Force and at Harvard University.

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Latest information from Sorel is to the ef- fect that the delay in the arrival of the new Car

Ferry Abegweif at Charlottetown will be longer than first anticipated. The check-up being un- dertaken by the builders is very detailed and exhaustive so that there may be no hitch when once the new steamer goes into service for the Government. time taken up when the vessel is dry-docked at Quebec. All of which implies. that probably it will bs the middle of next month bsfors

Abegweit makes liar appearance at Charlotte-m, o“, “m” ‘mm m" “It

Than there will be considerable

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Not one but two seekers of buried treasure are preparing to unearth riches in the Maritimcs. Each is equipped with a radio transmitter-re-

"rhe Liberals, seeing Premier Angus has buried rhc hatchet with which he was attacking Mac-

The division of the

we meet a lady of our acquaintance

in the street, as did one of the characters in Prousfs "Remem- brance of Things Past." We do

not produce visiting cards when

Sidelighi on A Statesman

(Winnipeg Free Press) When Rt. Han. Malcolm Mac-

mlssloncr to Canada he discover-

rry's Creek across the Ottawa river from his home. Esrnsciiffe. once the residence 00S?!" John A- Macdonald. This creek. despite its proximity to the centre of Ottawa, is a bird sanctuary and Mr. Mac- donald, who loves studying the habits of birds almost as much as the vagaries of politicians, spent many carefree hours on its quiet waters. Brewery‘s Creek has s grateful place in his memory largely. perhaps. because it let him escape for a moment from the tumult of a world at war t0 another world, where the hush of peace still endured. At any rate. Mr. Macdonald. now SW67!!!" P! Malaya, has put his Ottawa mem- ories in s book, ‘The Birds of Brewery Creek."

There are some Englishmen like l contributing nation with a total w_ R Hudsmh who can endow the

flight of s. bird with a grace so delicate that the glory of lang- uage ls exalted to a new height

m“ in giving it expression. Others, since in

of more Intense vision. like Jere- my Taylor. can catch in the swift brevity of g bird an image, sad i and haunting, of man's brief days

by the l on earth which pass .like a weav-

er's shuttle and are gone almost before they have cast a shadow. And there is Sir Edward Grey who found in the company of birds a solace denied him among men. I particularly when darkness fell an Europe and peace become a mem-

cry. The quiet eddies of Brewery's Creek lead Mr. Macdcnald to n0 stormy sees of controversy. The discordant echoes of parliament hill fall muted across its waters. And in far-away Malaya he still has the harvest of a quiet eye, the bliss of solitude. Has he not. taken the best out of Ottawa?

Import Programme For Next Twelve Months

In a statement on the import. programme for the 12 months be- ginning July 1st.’ Mr. Dalton, the United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer sold: “This programme must be related to the needs of our own people on the one hand and to the external balance of payments on the other. Owing to the serious rise in the world prices

we go calling. The fashions which dictated such behavior have chang- ed. But. some rules of good behav- ior are unchanging, and a code of Basic Good Manners would not be too hard to draw up. —Pet.erbor- ough Examiner.

The robin is a devoted and per- sistent mother; also much of Spartan. says The Guelph Mer- cury. A minister of Ortanna, Pa, found a number of dead roblns on their nests alter a heavy spring rain. The birds perished rather than leave their eggs. Then a. for- est fire broke out near his church, ‘and he tried to shaa a. robin off lher nest in the blazing area. Not. till the flames were extinguished did the bird move, and then to fly over to the pump literally beg- ging for water. The pastor-writer gave the bird a. drink, but. she died right there, a martyr to moth- l ei-love. "Birds could teach some human beings." remarked tho preacher, looking at. the dead robin. l

A person with a sore throat or an infected finger, for instance, land working in a kitchen, mayi cause havoc with the digestion of ,evcr_\-one who is served. Unclesn hands and dirty dishes can do the some. Germs get into the food, in- ,cuhate rapidly when the dinner is ‘being cooked and kept heated - {and the startling result is an “epi- ydemic" of enteritis, dozens of peo- ple stricken with nausea and se- vere cramps. It is difficult enough to guard against infection from food-handlers who unknowingly are carrying germs, yet not feel- ing ill themselves, without invit- ing trouble by being careless about lsanitation and personal hygiene.- Solnt John Telegraph-Journal. l

If it were possible. some sort of course of instruction, similar in character to that taken by anyone wishing to become an aviator, might be the means of making the newt generation better and safer motor drivers. One does not/send n beginner at aviation into the air alone in charge of an airplane, ,simply because he knows how to start and handle, in a rudimen- tsry way, the mechanism which makes the affair go. By the some token, lt would seem that young people should not. be entrusted with the driving of a motor car until they have been given a thorough course in the right of way of driv- ing and of the various rules which hold good, or are supposed to hold good on thc public highways. — Chatham News.

When the expression "no corn- ment" starts to circuiatm in the basebsiLwarld, it is time to call a halt to use of this stcrotypc of the nan-committal. A baseball manager asked if pitcher Joe Whoosis would be traded, uttered the incompetent. irrelevant, immat- isl and infuriating phrase. The sports writer who asked the quca-l tion was not. unkind enough to uk the manager whether he mlndodl sounding like s politician. Tho‘ proper answer to some questions is silence; the smart snswer to others is a question. The curtnsos oi "no comme is sharper than silence and not so- intelligent as a counter-question. Admittedly politicians are asked questions do- signcd to be embarrassing, whether answered onc way or another. But either "l don't think I'll answer t-hst"'or "Wouldn't you like to know?" arc sufficiently flood ro-. torts to questions that are meant to bs traps. Lot. "no comment" b0 left u a legacy to tho historian

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nf food and raw materials and the disappointingly low rate of post- war recovery, a. severe shortiyge of dollars is making itself felt n a1- most. all parts of the wo d. In particular our own line of redits under the Anglo-American Loon Agreement is being drawn upon much more rapidly than we ex- pected. It is our clear duty to take further steps to close the gap between our necessary imports and our exports, especially to hard currency areas."

Mr. Dalton said that there would be substantial economies in to- bacco and gasoline and s. restric- tion of newsprint meaning a tem- porary return to 4-page papers. He would ask power to levy an im- port duty on films if necessary, o: economize in foreign exchange. There would be some restriction in consumer goods other than food and the country must make avail- able for export an increased pro- portion of production. This applied particularly to textiles. The situa- tion was very serious both for Britain and many other countries. Food and raw materials and ma- cririery must have first place in Britain's import programme. The possibility of some cuts in some foods including rationed goods cannot be ruled out. Economies would be designed to cause the minimum difficulty to industry. The Government would continue to find foreign exchange for in- dustrlsl re-equipmcnt. The United Kingdom would not be able to afford all the imports of food- stuffs for which the country had hoped, but the Government had decided to maintain and in some directions slightly increase the \olumes of those imports with the year ending June 30th. Owing to an inescapable rise in prices this meant a substantially larger sum to be found in foreign exchange for food in the‘next. 12 months. In some cases food imports would he less. The Government aimed to sustain the productive power of Britain and to safeguard, first. imports essential to the health and strength of the people.