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ilytiiclal List of Casualties

oarvsnum arm! OVERSEAS (Maritime rs ) ~ Killed In Action 3,5, and 2.8.1. Icsiment

Albert Field, Pten

Crockett. John Cecil. m. Up-

uurrey, David Francois, PM Leger Corner. . B. 0mm, Joseph Jamel, L.-Sgt., “mt John, N. B. ..,-~=,.......- .l."-c was u» . 0. , . in z Wounds

gs. and r.E. . Regiment Lam"! Prlmk. Pte.. wrench Port, P. - -

plea? (Drowned)

. Ieoo Units storehouse, B e bridle. -. White Heed, Grand Msnsn. N . ' Severely Wounded NJ. and 2.3.1. licsim gem-y. Stanley Clifford, Stewlscke. NW5.

ounded Corps 0f loyal

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runswla Dalton. Albert

Cbi Columbia Regiment Iarry, John. Ptec Dover. N. S. Slightly Wounded loyal Canadian Artiilsry Stevens. William Leroy, Gnu, Block's Harbour. N. B. , I ured loyal Canadian Artillery lnith. Charles Alfred, Rt» UIF arouse. N

NJ. audugll. Regiment

an Vincent,

Darren. Lyell Dehnsr, m, Km- u.

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-. Syﬁwy. Il- New t Usher. John Edward. 9., GIO- .s. 107i HPW

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Mackenzie. Jcneilh Lint. PM. liit- John. N. B. gawk Ioportsd Prisonsr 0f sr New leper-tel Ssh Corps 0f loyal Canadian

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CANADIAN OVERSEAS

i .. ... am“... v Arthur Bruce, "u" m In Action loyal Canadian 11w, ‘Duran Allison. It. us. sis '21s. littlest lbs. CL. clauses (mother) Pew- nsl. P. ' ‘ nuke. rte. aunt §sad"'w.."'...‘ .' set. m».

u. =, 511p, Leo Nielsen, Rim, Bli- noomm s. s. ~ .

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I. e. i. Sosrls. P. . I. Slightly Wounded N-S. and P.E.i. Regiment net-um, Harris Ingraharn, Rim Ieddcre. N. S. New Brunswick Regiment

Gardiner. James Roland, is-OPL- mire. N. S.

Kim. 618340“ Pte., The Willows. N. B. Manitoba Regiment Doucet, Louis Alderlc, R.in., Pet- Rocher. u. B. ' Missing

New Brunswick Regiment King, Edmond Joseph, Mcncton. N. h.

Leblanc, Albert Antoine. Rfn. MlntO. N. B. Previously itsuorted Wall“: NW lqjorletl Wounded And nﬂlﬂllUrl

0f War N3. sud P.5d. Regiment

Mcinnis, Robert Horton. Pie. Glace Bay, N. _S.

Roberts. Rayanorad George, Pte, Halifax, N. S.

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CAN DIAGO. Calif, March n- (AP) — John i-iessin Clarke. re- tired United States supreme court justice and long a peace crusader, died 111.111; sleep today. I-ie was M.

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. l K (on MW i oi this Year will fall the one hundred

r... n. so... .1 oi? sﬁﬁlﬁélii 3B Brest Prince Edlvard Islander ryvlilio became one oi Canada's dia- l Bill-shed statesmen and jurists. as stlgemrer of the Island dur-

I .11 i th we“

decade iuoita hut-ab? ‘p "l" ‘F elnf Sir Wilfrid .

lplace in the public Province and of the Dominion, 1t is appropriate thmt on the occas- ion of this centenary his 111s and work should be reviewed anew, and that the achievements of Prince Edward Island's greatest contribution to the ranks of Can. adian public men should be rec. ognized once more. This is the first of a. series of four articles

Sir Louis Davies, th "m

Knight" as he was alizctionstigtlg called by his contemporaries, and mega: his relationship to m;

ram‘ our The Bari-nine 01's Career

Louis Ieury Ds ies no" Charlottetown on hioywlaie, ti: second son of the Hon. Benjamin Davies. The father was a pygm- incnt merchant who rah a. general atcrs and u business s. Orwell. sndwhc becamc s lead- ins munber ‘of the local legislat- ure, serving as Colonial Secretary and Postmaster General. During NI early years. vounc Louis de- "WPN I keen interest in busi- % m4 Wl-itica and gained much

_. and from close smocistlon with his father. lie attended schools in Charlotte- town and the Central Academy, now Prince o1 Wales College. and later studied law in the firm of Psuusr sud MscLecd. When he was twenty-one he went to Eng- land studied for 14 months

the the ‘

and of the .eat s1 scholars of the day. Onrh-is W rlend George mtIT-“w. Justice) Alley. Success some almost via; w“ s hrilllnm and convincing speak- er and his ability combined with s sound education to make hlm one of the best 1a ere of the day. His rise was so rapd that, in 1860,

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Li...‘ “$51.. er c m 1 11MB. and as Chief Jua-‘land ‘ ‘d; 0 t e Supreme Court of Cam-the .. I . Sir Louis held an holnourlegwrad been a

dellliied to outline the career of to the

t rnent

tin. Prunier Davies found t s difficult and imsatisiscto House to lead, and was d v ed to settle the school issue as soon as

been (wily applied to nls own fut- poaalble so that it could return to urc as a national statesman is paw dwmum 1

H contribution to the Confederation r l“ n” “' debates wassoefiectiver t n W ‘*7’ °°' “m” mowing, 5mm. m‘ “mama: g he introduced the Public- member, he became Leader of the Opposition.

The event which placed Davies in the first rank of the island statesmen oi the day was his per-

lpatior: in the settlement oi the

new Board establish the policy of non-denom- inational schools on which the government been elected. Aft- er s bitter ten-day debate during which the old arguments were again ' the Act was oas- sed and received royri assent. Thus, after many months oi hard fighting, Davies won the battle and established a system which was the basis of the Island's edu- cation for many years. It was gen- erally recognized that he had con- ductcd a fair and tolerant cam-

Jquestlon. _Pbr rnany years

c . e

hindered by the absentee- ndlord system which had pre- vailed since the Island had been surveyed by Captain Samuel Hol- land in r865, at which time 1t. had been divided intd sixty-seven lots which were given to persons who had some kind

d “Mm a“ u“ Paign. and the stress which he gilyvm, H? pmmgfffsl“: f’ f“? aced on its educational father no. a e an ac .v. bees u than m m,‘ u, up won m

their. holdings with -he result that their development was left largely tenants As the years yua- ser. the latter demanded that hey be given the right of purchase in order that they might improve the land to thelrgown advantage Ceru- missions had been act up, recom- mendations were made "o the perial ovemment, and appeals were drected toward the owners. but to no avail, The proprietors refused to sell But when the Isl- and entered into Confederation the situation change-i. One of the terms union was a grant of $800,000 from the Federal Govern- ths province to the proprietors. In l!!!

the Provincial Legislature passed the Land Purchase Act which was designed to force the owners sell by means of the “principle arbitration combined with that _ compulsion" and which set up a ' administer . the

to transfers. The Act had many de- fects all of which were pointed: out in the legislature by Mr. Davies as Leader of the Oliil-‘Klsitlon. i-Iia suggestions for improvement were largel ignored by the government and elictwaspassedonlytobe refused the royal assent by the Lieutenant Governor and the Governor General ior the very reasons about which Davies ._hed In the following session a new Act was passed emrbociyinl the Davies recommendations and it become law. But a final ob- stacle had to be overcome and it was here that Mr. Davies lire- vented the failure of the whole scheme. One of the proprietors. Charlotte A. Sullivan, appealed

reap did er. his opponent Mr. S van de- clared that: "The Catholic mem- bers, as well as all the other mem- bers oi the opposition, would not interfere with the non-sectarian

' ‘ ‘ of the ' Act. in the slightest degree.”

But further‘ difficulties is! l-hced. Coalition governments are. as s rule, uncertsin, particularly after the issue on whlc they are estab- lished is solved. When the school question was settled Da/viea found it. difficult to hold together a gov-

‘ c of four Liberals

and five Conservatives. This was particularly erviden/t when. in the Federal election of 187B. the Con- ‘aervative members of the coalition ‘gisuppcrted Sir John A. Macdonald. a! while their Liberal colleagues act- ively campaigned for Alexander Mack e The Davies govern-

ment then diainmegratcd, and

March 1870 it was defeated in the legislature on a want of confi- dence motion. In April an elec- tion was held and a new govern- ment trader Mr. Sullivan was re- turned to power by the overwhelm- ing vote of 2'! to 3. vies was

personally defeated in his own con-

two years after being called to the hsr. he was mods Solicitor Gen- eral for the Island. Pbur later in i878 he was elec ‘h? 15' ' as s member the Murray Harbour district the early age oi twenty-eight.

At the time Iouls Davies enter- ed the legislature Island politics were utir with the excitement of

e en an - lﬁmtr. flit‘; “.“¢”‘f2....“°°..§‘“a

i problems. The election oi

l8 3 was fought on the terms by which the colony was to enter Confederation: the courstrilctlcn of the Prince Edward Island Rail- ‘ left the treasury with an

debt; the time had come when the land question must be settled in order to give the ten- ants a fair share in the Island's economic future;_. the separate school issue was then becoming s matter of wide interest, sud the tneed for educational reform was generally rec . all these problems Davies took a kcen in- iereat.

to fc at

In The Legislature

Louis Davies was introduced in the House during the Confedera- tion debates of i813. Prince Ed- ward Island had in 1864 been the birthplace oi Confederation. bu: when Canada began as a nation the Island remained outside the union because the terms which had been offered to her were consider- ed unsatisfactory. By ma the railway debt had forced the gov- ernment to change its attitude. Union negotiations were then carried on with the Federal auth- orities and several delegations were senv to Ottawa for "bclter terms." But some members of the legisla- ture, including Louis Davir-s op- posed the “better terms" attitude and declared that the Island should ccasc bargaining and enter whole- heartedly into the wider sphere o! nationhood. In vigorous and eloquent terms the young mem- ber from Murray Harbour made ' his legislative debut and addressed his fellows from the ﬂoor of the House: "It is high time ior us to close up this honourable, and straightforward bargain between this colony and the Dominion oi Canada, as it is best ior the inter- ests of both parties to do so; A few months later an agreement was reached and on July 1. 1873. the Island became a province o! 0e11- ada. Davies heralded the spirit of the new era as a "hlllh Political calling.’ a term which could have

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from the Jurisdiction oi the Land Conrmlssion to the Supreme Court the Province which overruled the award of the Commission. The Judgment negatived the proceed- ings and the government was ready to glve up. But Davies, who was at this time solicitor to the Corn- mlssioner of Crown Lands. recom- mended thet the case be taken to newly-established Supreme Court of Canada. After much hesitation. the government agreed and the issue was laid before the highest court of the Dominion as its first case. On the request of the Provincial Government Davies pied the cause of the tenants. I-ie won the case, thus ensuring the success of the Land Purchase Act, and paving the way for the final settlement o! the most serious grigbleul in Prince Edward Island's

tory. School Question

One of the Island's most con- troverslal topics was the school question which dominated prov- I inclal politics from i874 to 1879 and ,which placed Louis Davies at the head of the government. Educa- tional re-form had been pending for many years and the necessity for it was accompanied by o cle- mand for separate schools on the part of the Roman Catholics of tire province. They believed that. education and religion should be closely associated and that re- ligion should be taught to children in the schools by teachers oi their own . The Roman Catholic schools in Charlottetown gave an exccIlen-t secular education in addition to religious instruction. But they did not receive support from the treasury because they were not public schools. To ob- tain support from public funds was the aim of the advocates of a recognized system of separate schools. Protestant groups who op-

posed this demand declared that -rellg»ion should be taught in the home and in the churcha, and

feared that separate schools would encourage the development of re- ligious barriers among the young- er ileneratloh.

The issue was formally brought before the legislature in 1874 when a resolution was moved favouring denominational schools. During the three sessions which follower- both points oi’ view were argue: and re-urgued. petitions from re- ligious groups were introduced and debated, and a keen rivalry d5. veloped between the interested fac- tions in the i-icuse and throughout the Province. A legislative com- mittee under the chairmanship of Louis Davies investigated the ex- isting educational system and found “a total lack of energ; and s. wont of union and earnest- nel." Whm the as 101s drew near, the entire populates: of the Island took aides on the is- sue according to rellglung 5M1“-

ation and prepared for an excit- ing cornpaig . That election was the bitter-est Iin the Island's httory. Political meetings were the scenes of spec- tacular encounters, both verbal and physical. between rival groups. Party lines were ignored as can. dldates were labelled as advocates of either separate or non-dorm“. lnatlonal schools. Louis Davies led the Liberal-r-rotestent group in supporting the non-denomination- sl system, while William Wilfrid _Sul1ivan was the leader of the sep- arate schoolltes who were Con. |servatlves and Roman Catholic. Both were great men whose lead- ership was one of the better feat. ures of the csmpﬂikn. Sullivan. in making his demands, took n p”. scnabie and tolerant atlitiide and gave ample consideration to both sides of the problem, Davies re- garded the issue as an educational rather than a religious one and; deplored the fact that what was‘ in reality an educational question, _ had become the subiect re-, ilgious friction. | When the campaign was over the Liberals were returned as the new government under the leader- 'ship of Louis Davies who was then ‘only 31 years of age, the youngest premier in the history of Canada. Further Difficulties when the new House mot ihrch 14. 1m it was

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stituency-ths only time ru mo: an election in thirty years oi pol- itical life.

Mr. Davies’ career in provincial

was s greet contribution to, tho development oi the Island. In the debates on Confederation he charaoisr- which marked him as worthy nf public onfldence. His energy and abil- ity had been the motivating force behind the final phases of the land uestion. His leadereh in the ac ool issue brought it s quick and decisive conclusion. _His great powers of oratory, political ability. and personal charm had marked him as one o! Prince Ed- ward Island's greatest statesmen whose aucceaiui achievements were great- er attainments in the future.

A-iter his defeat in i879 Mr. Davies return-ed to the full-time practice of law. But not for long. The Federal Liberals under Aiex-| ander Mackenzie and Edward! Blake saw in the dynamic Island-l

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MBRCiLiiSs TESTS on the battleﬁeld were not included in the program when Ford engineers designed the V-8 But ﬁve years of war have only proved what a grand engine the Ford V-S really is.

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Report Plastics Offer Housewife Many Wanders

By DOROTHY CAREW

NEW YORK, March 25-(AP)— Scrwwltproo! iurniture. rnothproci furs and ru- ‘ woolens are not dream-world fantasies but act- ual products the plastics field will produce after the war.

The housewife may look for- ward to refrigerators that. wil stay

and. alcohol. acid and ab- finishes

out constant polishing.

Other advances expected in the poet-war plastics world reviewed in the industry's newly-published 1M5 catalogue include:

Within s few years slior the war, resin-based painh will be used as agricultural and house- hold finishes.

Shrink-proofing chemicals ba- sed on main-mine will make wool fabrics as washable as cotton and will increase their weer.

i‘ ‘ i- applied to fur fibres have made it possible to simulate luxurious pelts from 1_cw cost furs and at. the some time halve made them water-repellent and moth- proof. '

‘nanqsarant plastics as hard as glass. heat-stable and weather- proof for curved windows of stream- lined homes. for automobiles and {or containers ior foods and drugs.

Designs already have been drawn for lightweight. moulded luggage. The plastic trunks and suitcases would be weather-rmistant. dur- able and would be made without seams or corners.

er a promising candidate ior Par- liament. Accordingly, they in- vited hlm to run for County 1n the Federal election oi 1882. He accepted. and conduzted a strenuous campaign. Though the Conservatives under Sir John A. Macdonald won a sweeping vic- tory, Davies was personally elect- ed in the county which he was des- tined to represent ln the Federal House ior the next two decades. (To Be Cont1nued>

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