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Mr. Message

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Bracken’:

Hon. _lOlll‘l Israeli-en's unique position at the present time is thus summed tip by the Sydney PosbRccord:

.\Ir. l; ckcn has kiioivii few if any days of drab leisure since his rcliiiqiiisliniciit of the Premiership of Manitoba last December to as- uiiiie thc Progressive Conservative leadership. liisteail of seeking a scat iii a moribund House of Commons wliosc functions have been almost “llllfCly ttstirpetl li_v the King Cabinet, and large- y haiitlcd ovcr to iiiii'cpre_~eiitativc bureaus at ilttawa, the Progressive Conservative leader has devoted his tiiiic during the past year to an intensive survry of national problems; a I70- ‘tllllltltl-“lllt tour of the Provinces devoted to research iii thc. fields of economic and social re- form, as wcll as to the organization of his party and thc presentation of its programme to .bc people oi Canada. The ivork he has ilon: siiCllbs for itsclf. llc has not only strctigthcitcd .-ll all sides tlit- confidence of Canadians in the Progressive Conservative party, btit lie has at thc same time stimulated greatly the interest of the pceplc iii public affairs by his earnest, forthright disctissioiis of the new issues which iiiust he faced bv tlie electors when the next Parliament receives their itiaiidatc. And in the ciiscliarg» of this mission .\Ir. Bracken has won ivcr_vone's praise for his clcariiess of vision, the integrity of his ideals, and his unquestioned sin- cerity of purpose.

The broad liiics on which a Progressive (fon- lcrvative Lioveriiiiieiit will administer Canada's affairs wcre very definitely indicated in .\lr. Brnckcnis llaiiiilton speech. The goals of states- nianship he outlined were rational rcform ratlicr than blind experiment, decentralization rather than increased centralization of government, the co-operatioii of constituted authority with in- dividual freedom of enterprise for increased production and employment, and ivitleniiig areas pf domestic and forcign trade

\Vho ls Responsible ‘I

Commenting on an editorial on CBC llllfWlll- tracy in the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, .‘.Ir. A. P. Patterson, Saint _lOlln, has the following sage comment to make:

"This is not a matter of party politics but is something which you aptly defined when you said: ‘in-my of them (bureaucrats) cultivate an illusion of omnipotence and mistake authority for ability.‘ However, the responsibility for such bureaucratic government in this nation rests with the parliament of Canada for giving a tiiircaiicratic corporation control of radio broad- casting, and with the legislatures of thc pro- vinces for allowing the parliament of Canada te do so.

“When the original provinces organized thc original Dominion of Canada t0 ‘conduct: to the welfare of thc provinces thcy agreed to entrust the li)0l".1lllit)lt'< parliament with certain l'i\v- making powers for particular objects and they certainly did not agree to allow the parliament of Canada to delegate its law-tiiaking powers to wrporatioiis nor to its executive government.

"Canada's constitution is clear and definite that law-making powers in connection with the subjects the provinces entrusted to the Doiiiin- ioii. are confined t0 the parliament of Canada.

“The most harmful results to this nation from such unconstitutional delegation of authority are in connection with tlic delegation of author- ii_v to the so-callcd ‘Canadian National Railways‘ l'_v ivliicl. thc Dominion has evaded its obliga- tions lri the provinces iii connection with the op- rratiiiii of rtiilivais especially the government- uiinrtl litter tfnlnnizil. National Trans-Contai- ciilal. and l'riiicc lidwartl Island Railway’ and (ar licrrv: The provinces, New Brunswick es< prcuillv. slliilllfl lltll inlcratc such tinconstitutioiial iicicgelioii of initlioriii and disregard for obligat- tiiiiis."

Xciilicr, of course. should Prince Edward l>l£llltl l: i: lrll. p: sible for our three i\lari- iiiiic l.il ral Qfl\‘('l'lll\lt‘lll\ to gct together on an ‘sail’: iii this lallltlf

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-T_he Industrial Front

'l'lii- lilillk Ill Xiivii Fcotias Index of Indus- trial .\c'ivii_v declined again iii September. The |l|'(‘llllllll.’tl'_\' figure fut‘ that month was 178.8 per cciit of thc l‘)j§-l\)_3,l) zivcragc, as compar- cd wiili i807 per cciit in August. At thc Sep- l(‘llll.‘(‘l' lcvcl thc indi-x is almost (i pcr cent be- low the high piiiiii rczichcil last Spring, but rc- iiiaiiis about 4 pz-r cciit JIlJUYC thc figure foi the iaiiic month a year zigo. llotli components of the lll(l\;.\' declined from August to September ——tlie falling-off in Industrial Freight Loatlings bciiig siiiiicivlitit sliarpri- than that which 0c- CIllTCfl in liiiipliriiiit-iit. lii (‘ilClI case, the de-

__cline in thc corrected iiidcxcs was thc result of

a failure tn experience the iioriiial degree of seasonal expaiisioii--:1ctiial employment and the loiiiiage of frcig) loaded both rose slightly, hiit less than is iisiiiil at this tiiiic of year. The flanks indcx and both its components have dc- cliiied cit-r since .\lill't‘ll, with ilie exception of an llll\\ll"tl jug bctivccn Jiitie and July. In other ivords, llif‘ cxtiziiisiiin of iiidiistrizil activity which normally lit-gins in .\lill‘ and rciiclics a peak in (lstohi-r has. during i043, hccn a good dczil lCsS niiirkcil than usual. Iiidccd. iii ciiiployaiiciit, ilic actual lvrcls of last .\larch have been barely i'c- gaiiied, though iiiiriiiall_v-iiii the basis of past cxpericiice—ono w-nultl expect employment in Rvptciiihci" t0 ht- almost 6 per cent higher than in March.

- EDITORIAL NOTES -

Australia’; riational_debt at June 30 iris $1-' 355 per head of the population-and still grow- mg. a ii- u Unless intending shoppers get busy this iveek- end, it may be a case with them of “too late and too little" left. a

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If, as i Ilon. Mr. IIowe claims, the refusal

of CBC to carry Mr. Brackeifs Hamilton speech

was a. publicity stunt, tlieii it sure went over big. I I i U

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In connection with the vacant judgesliip it is reported that Mr. H. L. Palmer will be raised to the Supreme Court, still as Judge of Probate, the Provincial Government contributing $5.000 to his salary, the fees going_ to the government; ivliile Mr. Tweedy, Mr. ‘McGiiigan or Mr. Martin will succeed Judge Saunders. TlliS would provide an appeal court, of which the province is still in need.

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George Whitefield, English divine of strict Calviiiistic sympathies, born this date 1714: was one of the early leaders of Methodisiii in Etig- land, Scotland and America; his followers built for him the “Tabcniacle" iu Moorfields, Lon- don; he owed his iiuexamtiled popularity as a. preacher to his manifest siiicerit_v, his unboundctl ove and concern for fallen humanity, added t0 his great dramatic talent, his eloquence, and his powerful and sympathetic voice which carried conviction as well as hop: to‘ his hearers.

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Ottawa seems iii no hurry to relieve the starv- ing hosts of India. Canada's gift of 100,000 toiis of wheat to India, announced some time ago, has not yet been shipped. “We hope to get it away some time in the near future," one of- ficial said The gift was designed to help rc- lieve the Indian food shortage and at the time of its announcement by Prime Minister Mac- kenzie King and its acceptance by Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, it was indicated the wartime shortage of shipping iiiiglit iiiakl: it impossible to dclivci" the wheat for some timi- But no one had any idea it would he as long as

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.\Ir. Alfred I’. Sloan, chairman of Cwiicrtil Motors Corporation, announces a post-war mas- ter plair for rccoiivcrsioii of thc automobile firm involving the expenditure of $500,000,000. “That is the contribution we arc prepared to make to liclp preserve the free competitive eii- tcrprisc system as thc keystone of the .'\lIlL‘l‘l- can economy,” lie told iiiciiibcrs of the Nailiuiial Association of Blaiiufactiircrs at the closing of their 48th annual cuuvciiticm. lle said the tit-n- cral Motors $500,000,000 expenditure Wflllld he devoted to conversion, advzincciticiit of tYFUSCIIl eiiiiipiiiciit to the latest standards of tt-cliiiolog_v and rctooliitg for l)0Sl-\\'Zll' products. .\Ir. Sloan added that the plan was based on the exp-scta- tion of an annual national income of $100,000,- 000,000 as compared to a pi'c-\vzii' iiictiiiic of (i5 to 70 billion dollars.

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During his visit to Sydiicy, Australia, the United States Under-Secretary for War (Jiitlgc Robert I’. Pattrrsoit) callctl at a military hos- pital and talkcil with the only soldier iii thc South-“icst Pacific zirczi trcatctl with the new drug, penicillin. Tlis soldier is Corporal A. 'l'licyssen, of “lisconsiii, reports Australian Newsletter, who was shot in the side iii New (fiuinca. Doctors almost dcspairctl of saving his life. as a ivristing disease dcvclopctl, and all available drugs, including siilpliziiiilaiiiitlc, had no effect. .\n tirgcut appeal was sciit to America for penicillin. liiiougli of the drug for I5 ilays’ treatment was flown to Australia. \\'lien it arriv- ed 'l'hcys~.cii's condition was so liiw that doctors fclr there was sc "ccly any hope. But Willlill 24 hours of receiving his first penicillin treat- ment 'l‘licysscii's condition improved and he went on to tnake a rapid recovery.

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Research has not alivays the pleasant and sat- isfactor_v consequences on: would like. A learn- cd committee consisting of Messrs. F. C. Mor- gan, Curator of the Hereford Museum; George Marshall, Fellow of the Society of Antiquarics, and Mai. J. G. Clift of thc Historical Alann- iaieiits Commission, has examined “Saint Aug- ustine's chair," recently returned to l-Icrcford- shire from Canterbury, and pronounced it to be a product of the eighteenth rather than thc first century‘. The chair is reputed to be the one in which the first Archbishop of Canterbury sat when he received the Welsh bishops. lloivcver, the aboac-iianietl experts now declare it was made up of old material by a iiian tinskilled in the use of carpenter's tools. They believe this could not have happened earlier than the inid- eighteenth century. Sir Reginald Johnson, whose father presented thc chair to Canterbury, declared he was convinced of the chair‘: ab-

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CBC has been finding it cxcecdiiigbv difficult to defiiic a political speech and to stick to any- thing (I611 approaching a. satisfactory defin- ition, as the case of Mr. Bracken shows. To circumvent the trouble it has liecn found ex- redieiit on the part of officialdom to restrict so-called political speeches to the leaders of re- cognized political parties or groups and then to permit these only during election campaigns and on special occasions when leaders may desire to give an account of their stewardship. llut whatever definition of a political speech is hit upon it must be recalled that the Prime Miii- istcr included in his broadcast of last Saturday night one important political feature when he told thc farmers legislation would be ititrodiicctl iicxt session to establish a floor under post-war farm prices. To that extent it was a political spCCCh, and. for that matter liow can a party leader avoid saying anything in a broadcast that iiiziy not be interpreted as an adroit political ap- peal? During ivzir time it is inevitable that the govcrtimcnt. because of thc varied demands of the war effort, should fccl impelled to talk di- feetly l0 lllc ficnplc. but uiidcr almost any kiiiil of definition of political- address those l'llih‘ might be open to criticism. .\iid the same would,

in reality, apply to peacetime.

Mr. Brackeifs Warning

(Montreal Stai- (labor-gt)

‘Phebe was mush In the address delivered by Mr. Bracken at Ham- llton on Friday n ht, that merits the close eximutiat on of the Can- adlan people. Not onlv was t: an effective re i. lenient of the out- standing principles of Mr. Brack- en‘s programme. but. ll, also tn- cludcd a well-reasoned and potent criticism of the 12.0.1“ policies and a devnstatln: analysts revealing their esentlal fallacies and danger to tlie well-belni o! this Dominion.

Mr. Bracken, who had evidently been at, great pains to clarlfy I113 meaning beyond anv doubt. struck n note which met tli a responsive echo throughout the Domlnlon in hLs opening remarks. when he and u clamoroiu political movement. had grown up tn the countr, which was ready and more than wt mt; tn take all power lnto its hands and ln a spiral; of vengeful lmpn-tlence to destroy beyond hope at repair the 300d as well as tlie bud to which soclety had fallen heir.

The Progressive - Conservative Leader warned ln no unce lxi temis of the dangers of n govern- ment pmsesstng absolute power. "When the State becomes master"

. “the people degenerate ltito servants. This has proved be the ease wherever State Social- lmi has been tried". Ho shattered the 0.0.5‘. utoplan promises f0. the ellmltiatlon of uneniploymen under its policies of Slate centre thus; “There ls no uiiemplo - in g prison when; men are sentenc- ed to labour. ‘mere is always a warden oi- a guard to set; each prisoner to work making little stones out of big ones. But thls isn't what we want."

He again sounded a. warning note: “This mad dream of a unl- versc transformed lii‘..o ordered perfection bv g, uonu-nlttee of order- ed human beings ls not only a pathetic delusion but it: holds out pessilbillties of at most unpleasant. kln ."

Mr. Bracken quite properly ad- mits the necessity for fair-reaching reforms lf Canada 1s to see a stead- lly rising natlonai income in which all may have their jusr. share. but lie believes that the powers of gov- ernment, consciously and positively cxercLsed. can atlileve any reason- able on-zl we desire. Ht,- stipulates, liowe t‘, that in the future t-lie Government must become the bal- aiice-wliccl of the nation.

“If the people of Canada choose to buy seeiiritv at tlie iii-tee of lib- Orly, they will lose much more than their liberty . Those who buv bread at the price of liberty will be cheated of both. l! the people are prepared to nbtuidnn them- selves to the guidance cf wlicmso- ever promises most. an: demands least. they will rink into moral lethargy and be exploited by ruth- lcs tna-stcrs."

Mr. Bracken was int kontcnt. with criticism tilUllC, cieitrtictlvcly analytical though that. criticism was. tin had zvatcliivordr for the Canadian iacoplt- for tin future Every t-ltizcn of this Dominion should inrrnorize tlitni and keep them constantly before h.m. They will not be difficult. fci they are contained lii a seiitencc:

"The ivatcliwords of the future . . must be decentralization, not centralization; co-cip Jlllflll, not State dictation; expanding pro- due-lion. not scarcity. niin widening areas of trade. not restrictive practices

There are four dcflnlzc pislnelples to be upheld, four definite goals towards wrlitcli t0 work. The alter- natives, ns Mr. Bracket‘. was swift to warn, are “continued chaos, on the one hand, iir rezziiii-iittitlon on the other-chaos with its frustrat- ions or reglnientatiun with its dead- etilng effect on tfie ltllDUlFE, m pro- duce. its inevitable tendency to- ward dictatorship. and the eertain- t_v that all material increase will be skimmed off to nouriul. a grow- inu bureaucracy."

Mr. Bracken nas made the issue ctyvslal clear for the Canadian pcople. Tliev know what they have tolacc. Willi them tlir: final de- cision lles That. decision will un- doubtedly affect for good oi lll the future notbiilv of the present but nfauccecding generations of Can- adiiiiis.