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To.,r:.ONTO (CP.‘«——A 33-year-old r0.u,‘:33Cl{ to the Vikins plans to mil to England this summer in 53,2 . foot, 500 - pound plywood imp" he built in his garage. 35,: Smith, a light metals Wker here, ‘sailed to England W, a friend in the 26-foot ketch Orenda two years ago. This year, Ha10ne, he hopes to break the record for . small-craft crossings with the Orenda Too.

ﬁjs new boat, two feet shorter thlin a 14-footer that made the cmssjng in 1939, left Tuesday by min for Halifax. Stm.tli plans to join it there’June 28 and set sail for Dartmouth, England, from Norm Sydney, N.S., on July 1.

“Orenda T00 and I will be in England around Labor Day,” he

says confidently. Fm - bottomed and heavy-

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HKENSINGTON

Sincerest symllvalhy is being ex- ténded to Mrs. Eric Grant, on fgceivinlg the sad news of the sud- dgn passing of her mother, Mrs. Ema Annie Brooke, of 403-Rose-

we Avenue, Winnipeg, at the age of 86 years.

-Mr. Fred Tuplin left on Tues- day morning, for western Canada where he plans to spend some time visiting relatives.

l His many friends will be pleas- ‘ ed to learn Mr, Keir MaicKay, has been able to return to his home in Sea View after being a patient in Prince Counity Hospital.

«The June ‘meeting of Baltic Women's Institutegmet on Thurs- day evening, at the home of Mrs. Bruce Riley. After the regular routine of business, a Shur-Gain

ntest was sponsored by Mrs. dith Wall, and the prize which was donated by Shur-Glain Feed Mills at Kensiington was won by Mrs. Bruce Crozier.

Mr. Thane Adams has returned to Montreal, after spending the past several weeks in Sea View the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Adams.

Mrs. J. B. Andrew Charlotte- peque.

Miss Sophie Barbour of Monit- rose is visiting in Kensington, the guest of, Mrs. Mattie _MacKininon.

Messrs. Gordon and Roy Bar- bour of Alberton were visitors to Baltic and Kensington on June 8th. C.

WELLINGTON

Mr. and Mrs. Alyre Conmler, Mr. and Mrs. Glori-ce Cormier, and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Gal- lant of St. Philip, motored to Tignish recently to attend a La- cordlaire meeting. .

Mr. Eric Gallant who has been employed in Valleytfiedl, Que., for a number of months, is now home in Egmont Bay.

Mr. and Mrs. Abdo Gaudet, have moved into their home in St. Gilbert, after spending the winter months in St. Philip with Mr. and Mrs. Jdseiph E. Gallant.

Miss Emelina Ca-issie is now at home with h-er parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caissie, after being Employed in Kinkora for some

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Mr. and Mrs. Joseiph Oorm-ier, Summerside, recently visited Mr. and Mrs. Ben Conrnier.

The funeral of the late Joseph P. Bernard of Mont Canrneil was held on Saturday mornzing. Re- quiem High Mass was celebrated I-l Our Lady of Mont Carmel Church by Rev. Buote. Interment ill the church cemetery. Pall- bearers, all brothers of deceas- °<1.were., Oyrien, 'Em=ilien. Ed- mond, Anthony, Albeni and Em- manuel Bernard.

A large barn containing ‘a illlalltity of hay, harness, etic.. be- imlglltg to Mr. Andrew J. Gallant Abfajms Village, was destroyed Y fire recently. The home own- 9? and his wife were away at ‘ time, as well as most of the mlﬂhbours. Wellington firemen l9§ponded and along with the neighbours did a good job in pre- Venting the flames from spread- ing to nearby home and houses “Toss the road. No livestock was in the barn at the time. Mr. Gal- ls emipl-eyed as a salesman with A.E. M-c»Lennan Ltd. it is Pefported there is some insurance M the barn. Sr: 1‘-_ and Mrs. Albenie Arsenault 'G1“0=9Ft. had as recent guests, W1“ and Mrs. Ivan Caissie, who ere accompanied by Mrs. Jac- ques G-audet and Mrs. Lizette Ar-. seanulti all of New'Bruin.svv-ick.

Mrs; Frank J. Arsenlault who °°"1'~1y visited in Ontario and U.

récént‘i3yS.ited Mrs. Agno Maddix

Mm Sophie G-audet» had as re- sent Eu_eSls, Mr. and Mrs. Ar- lie Poirier of Miscouche.‘ They queﬁaiccomp-ainied by Miss Jac- tow 119 Arsenault of Charlotte — Mn‘ MR .and Mrs. Ernest Ar- - fault and two children of Lew- ti er N-B-. also recently visi- al the Poirier home.

“$15598 Agnes and Edith Arsen-

nt ;'“1d"1\_11ss Clara Cormier. r_e- st’ Cuglesrlged therir parents in ¢hIi‘lTgS* Fldtfle Gallant and three ,.isner§“~ bummersldc, recently Ame . her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

, me Arsenault. _ {ugh e'dEYY1a}1uel Bernard has re- _ hls home in M.acAdam. friend alter a ‘inter Visit with gay 5 and relatives in Egmont

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‘ .s3muel McAusland spent

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ﬁns To Sail His 12-Foot goat Across The Atlantic

lfxifi/6;led,’the boat is divided into fore “arterllghl compartments; 4 . alt, centre (the living 59309‘ and both sides. U1\QlS1_NKABLE CRAFT? Emith clams it's unsinkable.

W0 hollow aluminum masts, °Pen at the lot), Will provide fresh zgrwxylhen the batch is battened

A k can the watertight cabin. tri S fit Why he 5 making the HIDGV to amateur sailor replied: kj dan to set a”record——and I’m _~n_ of restless. He’ll carry of. ficial greetings from the people of Toronto to the, people of Dart. mouth.

HIS wife’ knows nothing about boats and isn’t enthusiastic about the Planned. Voyage. But she shares her husband’s confidence.

It Bert‘ says he’ll do it, nothing W111 Slop him,” she commented.

the weekend with his niece, Mrs. Eva Day. .

Mr. and Mrs. Gloriee Wedge, and Miss Octave Wedige of Mont Carmel, were recent visitors of Mr. .a=nd_Mrs. Gerald Arsenault and ﬁamily of Egmont Bay.

Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cormier have returned home from a visit in Mont Carmel.

Mr. and Mrs. E. Caissie of Miiscouche, recently visited Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cormierr.

Mrs. Celine Cormier, Summer- side, spent a few days visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Gallant, St. Philip. ‘

Mr. Theodore Caissie, with Ca- nadian Army, stationed in Nova Sootiia, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caissie of Eg- mont Bay, recently.

Misses Margaret and Louise Benniaird, recently visited Mrs. J. A. Gallant and family of Tignish.

Mr. and Mrs. Gus Arsanault and ﬁamily, _S«ummerside, w e r e uisibors of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Aucoin and ‘Mr. and Mrs. Gerard

Auoain.

. TIGNISH

Mir. ‘and Mrs. Ernest Rich-aird. Lowell, Mass., who recently mo- tored to the Island aclcompanied by Mrs. Rich-ard’~s sister, Mrs. James Gillis, who had been-.‘vvis- iting the Richard family during the past six months, have now returned to their home. While here they were the house guests of Mrs. Gi-llis’ son, Mr. Herman Gil-li-s, St. Felix, and visited with other relatives and friends in the community.

.V Mir. Leo Harper and Mr. John McGuire have returned to their homes in Somerville, Mass., after a week spent at Mr. Harper's home in Christopher C r o s 5 While here, Mr. Harper had work- men employed doing extonsive re- pairs to the interior of his home. Later in the year both gentle- men return to the Island, ac- companied by their wives, -to va- cation for a month or six weeks.

Sympathy is extended to the family of the late Mrs. James H~andra-han, whose death occurred on June 6th, at the home of her son, Mr. Joseph Handrahan, As- cension. I

Mrs. R. E. 0’C=onnor and Miss Louise Gaudet, Toronto, Ont. are enjoying their annual vacation, and spending it with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Gaudet, Tignish.

Mrs. Edgar Peters has return- ed to her duties as salesclerk with the Tignish Co-op, Ltd., after being, absent‘ for several weeks, due to illness, Mrs. Peters’ friends are happy to know she is again ,enjoy*1ng good health.

‘The lobster fishermen in this Tignish area are pretty well dis- couraged with the Iesults of their lobster“ catches each day, which are very, very poor. The packing plants have closed down after be- ing in operation only one month, and the workers are now on the unelmiployment list, which makes it equally as hard for them as for the fishermen.

Mrs. Foster Skerry, Tignish. spent four days in St. Andrews, N.B., visiting her friend Mrs. Joseph Walsh and family. \

Mrs. Howard’ Gaudet, Toronto,

spend two weeks with her mother Mrs. F. J. Skerry, and her ‘little- daughter Debby Ga-udet, who re- sides in Tignish with Mrs. Slkerry, her grandmother.

Rev. Terrence Campbell. 13-13-- Ch’Town, celebrated mass in Tignish on Saturday morning. Jun-e 7th, The oc_cas_:on was the anniversary’ of his sixty years ‘if’ dained a priest. Fr. CamP'l?91 5 only immediate relative, a sister. Mrs. Fred Conroy. resides in T135’ nish, and due to her advanced age, was unable to travel any dis- tance, so for that reason, he came to Tignish, The mass celebrated in the Convent chapel of Olll‘ Lady of the Angels, was attended by relatives and friends of Fr. Ca.mprbell.

Congratulations are exended to Father Campbell by the resident; of Tignish, and these friends wis him continued good health to car- W on the Work in his beloved

church.

Jo.Ann Perry. little daughterof Mr. and Mrs. Russell Perry Tig- nlsh has returned home from the Western Hospital, where she had -been a patient for several days, under the care of Dr. W.A. Shea.

Mrs Pius Ellsworth, Skinners Pond ‘spent a clay recently with her aunt Mrs. E.J. MoC‘~ue and

Mr. McCue, Alberton. D- K-

‘ -legacy a heritage that’s woven in the fabric of our nation. Other and more glamorous

Ont., has come to Tigniﬁh W i

./2 W in a Halifax courtroom, Joseph Howe told a jury sitting

in judgment upon his newspaper: "Gentlemen, I conjure you to leave .

an uns/tackled press as at legacy to your children. ”

Since then, and from a base laid even earlier, Canada’: newspapers have built upon that I communication methods have arisen. Television has brought its ﬂeeting pictures and glossy ‘ entertainment, but the legacy that Joseph Howe, "the Peoplc’s tribune,” left for all the people has kept loyally to its trust. "

The newspaper has always held the notion that it is the right of every man to be informed. ‘From the day in Montreal when THE GAZETTE of 1789 carried Canada’s first social legislation, the maximum price for bread, to the stirring arguments of 1957 on what some said were threats to parliament, the nation’s papers have upheld the right to keep the people properly informed.

The railroads made this young nation a physical, dynamic possibility; it was the newspapers only that could make of it political reality and a lasting coordinating whole.

Passing, transient voices have often been heard in the land. Lately, there are those succumbing momentarily to the wooing of new Muses that promise, but do not produce, the information on which people make decisions. Only the newspaper has remained the constant and unwavering vigilante to guard the will of Canada.

In another century, it was Muddy York’s COLONIAL ADVOCATE that held the mirror of its day to the oppressive wrongs of Family Compact and brought about its downfall. A ﬁerce, red-headed little editor, William Lyon Mackenzie, fought with his small journal in Uppei Canada while at the same time . . . Neilson fought for righting wrongs in Lower Canada.

Our own day sees a dapper little F rench-Canadian, the reporter Edmond Chassc, moving relentlessly about his city gathering together the threads that "broke” in 1949 the gruesome criminal bombing of an airplane that took the lives of 23. For that, Albert Cuay would hang. It was not some new and glamorous medium that pointed out the clues to the authorities, bu; a working news man and his smallish daily journal.

A few years later, while rumors simmered and the public could not tell where wrong might lie, Gwyn Thomas in THE TORONTO DAILY srnn quietly gathered and then published the information that disclosed 0ntario’s far-reaching highway scandals. And it was now, in these last five years too, that Bruce Larsen, an energetic reporter of THE VANCOUVER PROVINCE, laid bare the shocking conditions at Oakalla Prison Farm.

List these, and then repeat them with other cases just as vital, and you will see how newspapers of the past and into our very day have maintained the right of the people to bc informed. And have kept them informed. < '

Historians have sold short the newspapers. VVhilc poring through their ﬁles for the very facts on which to base their works, they have called newspaper words transient and ﬂeeting.

Yet those very written words which they held to be "dcad” today because they were written yesterday, have held such life, continuing vitality, that only they are there preserved to tell the temper of the times. i -

Today, as he was halfa century ago, the sage, abiding counsel of the West, John W. Dafoe thundering in his WINNIPEG FREE PRESS the rise of Canadian nationhood, is quoted wherever wise Canadians gather. The agricultural experts of the prairie papers inform their people of the vagaries of wheat as Cora Hind so brilliantly informed them and made them prosper in the past. ,

Setting himself against the overwhelming population, the wealth and growing powers of thc press across the Detroit river, VV. F. Herman created in Windsor a great newspaper that built I city as much as the great automotive industry that came there. He saw the birth and that title of the labor unions and, with them. watched their rights protected.

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JOHN EDWARD nmrivmv, author of

"Purely Personal ”--n daily column in 7715 Toronto Star . i . -.-is a veteran newspczjm‘ reporter whose assignments have taken him from one end of the earth to t/za

other. He is also author of a book,

:'The Cqﬂln Murder Case, ’ ’ the famous story

oft/zc American hunter:

murdered at Gasféu

Before him and with him and after him, in Toronto Joseph E. Atkinson had laid and built and expanded the foundations of his daily and weekly newspapers that saw and led a whole era of social change. The welfare of the people, all the people, and the protection of their rights moved him and urged him, and governments moved behind and wrought the legislative changes that the people sought.

Today a French language newspaper whose translated name means "Duty,” strives every‘ - day to point the dangers of corrup‘.ion as LE DEVOIR, small perhaps in circulation but great in it; effect, watches for the signs that must always guard the people in democracy.

Someone has written that the very interest readers take in everything the papers do is an indication of the place they hold in each community. ,"It is an 017.-in institution and people think of it as their own. Their interest is j)roj2ri2etary.” What other form of communication holds itself so closeto those it would inform '9 i

Given the honest facts, the people can make up their own minds. It is that function the newspapers continue to uphold. It is not always glamorous; it is not always purely entertaining ‘ But without a free press no democracy can endure. Hitler proved it, Stalin proved it, and in Argentina when Juan Peron would throttle freedom it was the newspaper LA PRENSA that it throttled first.

Years later, I talked in a New York apartment with Dr. Alberto Cainza Paz, the exiled publisher of LA PRENSA, as he was packing to return to South America. Peron was deposed, and the man who had all those years opposed him was going back to prove once more that the liberty ofpeople lies with the life ofthe free, untrammelled press.

When the ﬁght for Pasteurization and the preservation of child health was necessary, it was‘ the newspapers that carried the battle. When hysteria seemed likely to come with ﬂoods in Winnipeg or Hurricane Hazel in Toronto, it was the newspapers with the facts, the lists of dead and those moved off to safety, that quieted the greater fears.

It was across the news wires 0fTHE CHRONICLE in Halifax that word went out about the sinking ofTitanic, called the end of an age of false security. And it was in that city, in the tragic and unequalled explosion of that generation that the newspapers quieted its people with the facts, full and terrible as_ they were. Throughout the land help raccclto the disaster-torn city, - and it was the newspapers which told the public of the needs. L

VVith pungent cartoons and sharpened background news and editorials, it has been the newspapers that have brought about reforms in prisons, changed the very names ofhospitals for the mentally disturbed and bettercd their conditions. They and their support have hastened such reforms as old age pensions and family allowances. It is they that have interpreted this vast nation one part to the other. It is they that have exposed the hoodlumism, the market frauds, the irregularities of unﬁtted politicians. It is they that have curbed the marclr of those who in their turn would curb Canadian liberties. ~

As Joseph Howe said that day in Halifax: "The press has constantly vindicated and maintained the indcperidence ofjuries.” Times have changed and other media have been born, but the newspapers have been the forces that have formed our nation and kept its decencies.

They say Pliny of ancient Rome was the ﬁrstjournalist, a kind of ncwspapcrman who warned the people oftheir Caesars. So it remains today.

"Gentlemen,”said the great Canadian statesman Joseph Howe in that distant day, "Ifearlessly consign myself and, what is of more consequence, your country ’s fircss intoyour hands.

"I would rather be cast into prisonﬁirycars t/zzzn meet you in after life to reproach me for ' having misled you this day by false statements of fact or law.” ‘

This is why, in all the hue and cry ofa swift and passing day, the ﬁrmcst, closest to the people and most reliable of all the means ofkeeping men informed . . . the newspaper . .. has remained the ﬁrstin their affections.

THE GUARDIAN

“Covers Prince /Edward Island Like The Dow”.

NUMBER ONE in a. series on the right of the public to be informed

From The Toronto Star