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President. Liana-Col- W. Chance 8. Isl-In Vice Irufdenl, J. B. BIrnfl-l. IJJ- louetary. Hurt-Col D A. Mailman 0.3.0. Iditor and Managua Director J. l Burnett. FJJ Associate tor. Funk Walks SUBSCRIPTION RATES $5.00 per you tlu advance» delivered k (My. 64.00 per you (in udvlncci mailed on P. l. Inland $6.00 per you (in advance: mulled lo (land; Ind UJ. Members Audit Bureau o! Giroulltlonl

‘The Strangest Memory "i: Weaker than the Weakest Ink.”

THURSDAY. APRIL 21. m9

Liberal Members Disqualified In their haste to give salaried jobs to their legislative supporters the Campbell Govern- ment made such bungling changes in the Elec- tion .~\ct as to leave the recipients oi these emoluments disqualified as representatives! Messrs. H_ H. Acorn, Aeneas Gallant and C. St. Clair Trziiiinr have drawn Government sal- aries as well as their scssional indemiiities dur- ing the past few years, the first two as mem- bers of the Fisbermeifs Loan Board, the latter as Clerk of the Assembly: Sec. l3 (23 0f tho Act as zuiit-iirlctl to CUYEl‘ these appointments reads as follows:

“Nothing in this section shall render ineligible as aforesaid, any person holding any of the following offices, that is to say: Premier. Presi- dent of the mecutive Council, Provincial Sec- rotiiry-Treasurer and Mihlfilfil‘ 0! li-Bflllullillrfl. Attorney General or Minister of Public Works, Minister of Education and Public Health or Min- lster of Dducationor lvfinisterof Public Healthor Member of the Treasury Board or Clerk of the Legislative Assenrbly or Law Clerk to the Legis- lative Assembly or Member of the Fisherman’: Loan Board or any other Government Portfolio, or shall disqualify such person to sit or vote in

the Assembly; “Provided he be not otherwise disqualified

ANDHEBEMMATTH BAZLETIMIA MEMBER. OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OI‘ THIS PROVINCE;

"Provided that nothing herein contained ab!“ render ineligible as aforesaid any Member we ting the sessiorial allowance or indemnlt/Y pa-iflpto Members of the Asseiziibly."

It will be noted that the determining quali- fication in the section is that each of the jOll- holders mentioned shall “be also at the same time a. Member of the Executive Council of this Province."

This is part of the original Statute and was not repealed. It excludes from salaried posi- tions of any kind all Legislative members who are not members of the Government. In other words, IT DISQUALIFIES MESSRS. ACORN, GALLANT AND TRAINOR FROM FILLING ANY SALARIED JOBS DURING THEIR TERM AS REPRESEN- TATIVES.

Under Section i8 of the Act, these gentlemen Ire each liable to an action for $200 per day for every day they lizive sat in the House since be- coming disqualified.

They should also, of course, refund the ses- lional indemriities they drew over this period.

A Sorry Alibi

l ‘the Cartlpbcll Government's alibi for-failing to balance the budget annually, as promlwd, 15 one concocted last year in the Legislature by Mr. Horace Wright, and repeated parrot-like by the Premier, his colleagues and party press ever iince. It is to the effect that when the Liberal platform was drafted they had “no idea that the Conservatives WOLll(l pile up a debt in one year of nearly a iiiillion tiollars, ticcessitating ad- ditional iritercst and s-itiking funds of the anlount of $65,000."

This in gross itiisreprcscntntion, for the $952,- 000 liabilities of i935 were incurred under both governments. A considerable part of it was due f0 the orgy 0f extravagance on which the Lea- .Campbell (iloveriiment embarked in the fall of the year, for the purpose of electing the Fed- eral Liberal candidates.

The Liberal Manifesto, published subsequent to the Liberal Platform in- r935, gives the lie to the statement that the Liberals iverc unpre- pared for the cost of the trans-Cattada highway. Therein it is claimed that this highway “will in all probablility add at least a half a million dol- lars t0 the already staggering liabilities of the Province." In s/vilc of HIIS, l/ie Ilfaniferto pledg- ed I/m [tariy lo lllifllllfl’ lhe budget ammalfv.

In all fairness it should also be explained that when the Ctmscrvzilives catiie into power iii 193i they found a Liberal overdraft of more than a million dollars, and an increased Liberal debt of $1,177,000, for which interest and sinking funds

. had to be provided.

A Farcical "Investigation"

the Liberal press boasts that one of the big

' spending departments of the Government is the , ,_,_...

' Fisherman's Loan Board, the- chairman of which is Hon. B. W. LePage, President of the

' true. Executive Council. It is an ominous sign that

since the establishment of this Board Mr. Le- Page has also been chairman of the Public Ac- “ counts Committee-um committee which is sup- posed to make an independent investigation of

ISM) all fhefiovernment’: financial transactions. With

MrwLePage on the committee _was placed an- Jflllq ,Governmen: member, Hon. L. R, Allen, lltpving five party supporters to complete the

rsonrrcl. '1' 1 " ' ' kcd At thyopming of, the last session.

' " gwliat-inde ttdence of action ' tteehave Irhlgfnc-thc-Puba- _ g liter at L081‘? gesligctiug ‘and: veronica:

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enough for the Government to have an all-Lib- eral committee investigate the Accopiits, with- out reducing it to an absolute farce by domin- ating its proceedings. I

Hon. Dr. MacMillan has called attention to the fact that the report this year of the Com- mittee should have contained an account of the unpaid bills at the end of 1938. This was the procedure followed by the Conservatives in i935, the last election year. The excuse given by Hon. Mr. Allen, in a speech delivered less than sixteen hours before the aunouncementof the election date, was that “this is not an elec- tion year”! What reliancecan be placed on thg sincerity of a Government which is prepared m go’ to such lengths to deceive the people?

i‘be information which the Committee ivit-h- held this year from the electors was demanded by the Liberals themselves in 1933, when no election was pending and the amount of unpaid bills was_a matter of no immediate concern to the jllbliC. Why {lien was it suppressed in 1939-‘

The Same Prophet!

Our local contemporary quotes the manager

Preitiier Campbell and hoping for another Lib- eral victory.

On a recent trip to the Island, this gentleman noted in his paper that much of the work of our Island legislators was “in trying to find jobs for their supporters."

This is the same gentleman who, in r935.

after studying the disastrous election results in the Province, was visited by a real prophetic brainstorm and declared: “I greatly regret that there will be no Op- position in the next Prince Edward Island As- sembly. A strong Opposition helps to keep a Government in the straight and narrow way; lack of an Opposition encourages irregularities, extravagance: and graft. When men have no enemy to fight they frequently begin fighting among themselves, a. civil war develops unlh the result that the one: powerful party GOES TO PIECES.”

‘I Editorial Notes I

The Mutiny of the Bounty this date, I789- The Colony of Pitcairn Island was the outoome n a n The unbounded enthusiasm among the op- position througbout the Province bodes well for a Conservative victory on the 18th prox. So

mote it be.

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“As the Old Cock Crows the young one learns.” As the Federal Liberal Government shows a bad example of extravagant waste and defecits, what can be expected of the Provincial Liberal Government? They are in line as tried and proved failures and misfits. i! It 1i l? The trouble with the members of the recently dissolved legislature is, that however unwilling, they must accept nomination or be for ever cast into the outer darkness, so far as Liberal patron- age is concerned. They are unwilling sacrifices, and far from being of the stuff of which martyrs are made. 4' 1i ll i No one reading Mr. Dutmitig's budget speech can escape the feeling that it was riot only not in- spired by optimism but tinged with pessimism. He blames industry for lacking leadership, but here it is a case of self-accusation. He left the flour industry to undertake leadership, and a sorry mess he has made of it. it i i =1!

The Marquis of Lothian, who has been ap- pointed Ambassador to Washington in succession to Sir Ronald Lindsay, is not “a wealthy land- owner,” as alleged by the Canadian Press. His principal estate is Newbattle (not “Newb0ttlc”) Abbey, Mid Lothian but he is too poor to live there. and has rented the tnaiision house to the Scottish Adult Education Association for a resi- dent Collegc for students. As-it is an old monastery, generously bestowed upon the Kcrrs (the faniily name) at the time 0-f the Re- formation, it is admirably adapted for such a purpose.

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The local Liberals were in hopes that the ab- sentee senior mernbcr for Queens would find a seat elsewhere. or get officially shelved bcforc the election. Alas, his budget failure dispels any liopc in the former respect, the local party are likely to be saddled with him for his first con- tested election here. What the Liberals most protest against is that, by having an absentee representative, all the “pap and patronage" are concentrated in two brotbers-in-law, formerly two brothers, which constitute a "Family Compact” wholly in the interest of “me and my law brother; Us two and no other," save and ex- cept there be any “droppings from our sur- feit." .

c o n- 1-

General Gricsbach, war-time‘ Commander of

the Senate on the Government measure aimed ‘at creating a Defence Purchasing Board, ad- vocated a parliamentary Committee be appointed vested with the task of ascertaining the facts relating to Canada's defence positions. The need for a committeearose out of the frequency with which the Minister of National Defence dc,- ciined to disclose information relating to Can- ada's defence position, on the ground; that it was

call the technical military officers and obtain from

them the relevant facts the Senator acid. A sec- ond suggestion which General Grlesbacit declar-

wi; that the ehairtsiiiiéi the,proposed_fpurclms-

a ling board should be‘appblritedra,meiribérkof- tile-

Deteiiée Gounoil. Thlniprocedure wuitfoilpwcd

._G6ncrsloiMunltiouawusmerttbo|_-oftln|rfly

in the United Kingdom, whore the Dlreltdr

smut-n.

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of the blickville Tribune (Liberal) as eulogizing ma,

the 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade, speaking-in

not in the public interest, The committeccouldi

ed the would press on the Bainicingiand Com- ‘ 111cm Committee when the. bill ‘came before it. -

Wm “minim m make

in order to win plause and get an all the fut. part-s

musical comedy.

lain: crid mothers. oocaslonallv

wiir and her-hating; agfi. fly cur m u , the soprano has Pblondettrk ooruscating clot-hes. 1! drl milk produces more and

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drown a hoot. of tenors and so pranos Humid.

Comfortable

shaken lower strata atmosphere nears skilled workers at

of the the new EEC-l four-engined ctr liners.

on Europea

m sea-level in a few minutes breathing becomes labored none but the physically

cure" cabin. Passengers cargo are carried, mainta

lned sea-level

lower British Aircraft Society.

noted ironic NIOXGIIMS in to the extent to ingenuity has gone in Timmins devising new

escapes, highs, ever. claims that, Rouyn, Quebec

is compelled to per year simply editor. The Press

payatax

place on earth where specified tax is placed on editors

to be one for Ripley". The Rou editors are not

first, people in general

their sympathy these days

itors,

cipsl tax on editors

ls that. (Editors

made on themselves u about. the lmposts

and indirect, personal and general. unfair, that make the editor's lif what it is. Advance.

Jail-and nobody in it. 0f cours

at this emptiness and would llk to have it permunent. But every body knows it can't longer, and so

irig pnolwlhig w‘; pcestalae first. oocu pun a c - -spim tors bchln

Wee.’

In can amt-ion which the oiltent c voice? By service. f! M!“ to rile in hi! place in Ptrifemen this we to announce a Oompul: ion Bl he mind-be rightly in

the poll, la not without

NOTES av rm: vmv

voles lower. I1 milk GOl/Qlopg law- er voices were all for a promo~ embryo singers drink more milk. We're soured on the incessant parade of wills-nos who feature the radio pro- grmis, and long for a few nice, mellow contraitos. We're tired Q1 tenors who save their breath m wind up with a squeaky high note a round of ap- encore. The tenors and the aopranos get in opera and They are the heroes and heroines. the leading mm and leading lady. and the basses and cacti-altos are doomed to enact subordinate roles as vil- The operatic basso dons black whiskers and slnzs a minor priest- ly role: the contralto dons a. grey drab garb and has to be The tenor has m:

better basses and contraltos we're all for . t vVhat they can't drink we'd

lnl-etratford Beacon: "I “m” “pm h’ All?

‘travel at height-s above the capricious and weatizehr-

a realization u F1116! factory‘ begin construction of the first ‘supercharger?’ fuselage for

Fourteen of these Iii-hon monoplanes are on order for use n and Empire routes: they are designed w cruise at. zoo-mo rn.p.h. and to operate with untompsmnscmonbosmsts

height of 150,000 (cob-level with l the summit of Mono Blane, Eu- rope's highest mountain. Aircraft designers have long looked high in search of better performance 5°“ and more comfortable travelling conditions. In the thin air of aub- stiratoaphere levels between 15.000 and 30,000 feet, higher apeed; may be obtained with lees expenditure of engine power. Unfortunately, in the attenuated air. which L; reach-

and

fit may endure with impunity the seveml effects of grout. height, even be- low levels at which the use 01 oxygen-apparatus becomes essen- ital. These obstacles are overcome in the design of the F‘.C.-l. which has a special supercharged “pres- and as it were, in n. flying cylinder wherein air is at rating.

The airliner is thereby rendered free to give swifter and more eco- nomical service. while the passen- lwrs are protected from discom- fort from thin air and the change- able weather and storms of the atmosphere. — From the

The Mun-Normand; Press bu

and odd forms of taxation-taxing coal chutes, fire oiling the streets. The Rouyn-Norarida Press, how-

R-ouyn-Noranda Press, and Editor Morrlsetie, of La Fronblere, each of $20 for being an probably right in believing that Roiiyn has the distinction of being the only a special

As the Press suggests, "this seams

likely to rece ve much sym athy in their specific taxation. '1‘ is is lpr two reasons- need all for themselves in the matter of taxa- tion and, second, there ls seldom any sympathy for an editor, any- way, about anything. Indeed, even editors elsewhere will feel that the Rouyn town fathers have scarcely glme far enough. Li’ p. tax on ed- why not one on liriotypc operators? Why not c. couple of taxes on proofreaders? The mimi- has been in force in Rouyn for the past four years. the Press notes. Someone may comment. that it la remarkable that nothing has been heard about. it before. The answer to that one do not. worry so much about the many impositions

t_h% do, upon c eras.- Probably, if they did they would escape some of the taxes, direct open and hiddeiul fair and

- From the Timmins

———_ Chapel Hill hast; flue new nil will‘. disposed citizens rejoice

last much people who have nothing better lo do are speculat-

5f,- d the bars in the irlwn Hall basement. There u uld to

we male the demon- needs of the nitration urge on use with so 10-‘

“fiimfifi

cal sense of Q ‘mu-t , , . t.

m . v . , . Trillium Britain‘, ‘mou hut

A mm than out»; tuclmr in Ohio egg-fin ‘that the T" "mm?" “Pmu-‘s’ Grill-in! of milk d the. result 8,1,4 u"’"-" of producing deeper voices. Bbe ' m °° ‘n ‘mmm °l .3" ‘serum t, l‘ made chudren.‘ 910.18 1n the Public Accounts for

1988. page 89 for “Enforcement f the Prohibition Act." In o. rec t

Your com- ment. appeared while the ure was in session. but no denial was made, no quuilons asked, nor was any information given as to how this amount. was made up. It was u. rather big sum to pass the eyes of ourreprmtlves in the

House. buvténpass

If you recall evidence given by- Antoine Ruben, the Belgian Count, in the Police Court of Charlottetown, you will ice that he stated on oath that. he (the Count) "got the money to blly liquor with from the Attorney-General.” “Run- n1n8 ih women did not. help to catch bootleggers". "Liquor sup- plied thom was bought with Al. tome! General’: money." “All liq- uor enbered as expenses.” "l: can. tasted Attorney General personal- received my money from him cash." “Thine s in Mone- ton. bollght liquor wl money re- ceived from At Gencrdl, making investigation." "In Mone- lDIl we were incomoanv of women may Gen- "ll- 11¢ lemved." made re- volt to Attorney General thstrum W” 90km b’? my Wmllaniori into Queens Count/y Jail.” ' These are actual quotations from Robin's sworn testimony and are

rds of cases before our courts. ln Magistrate Tweedrs

om llth October. i938: "l lot two _ 8100 bills from the Alioniey Gen- emf." "I reeglved pry from the Attorney General down on Dor- phestiep S.” PM. kpow amount my, per up! Si. 00.00 or $1, It is evident. from the records of heoe cues that the "Courwhcd a. great deal of money at his d-ls- pose-l and this was all in addition to the salary which the Attorney

eral had to inv to the detect- ive agency for his services. It. is really too bad that. this in- formation was inot demanded by some of the members of the Leg- islature. The people of this Prov- ince have the right to s. full state- ment. and ‘it is up to the "silent

1!. in

thirty" to give the infonuatlon ' when face the electors. I am, Blr, etc, TAXPAYER.

THOSE ODIOUS COMPARISONS

sin-The truth th t "Oompan- sons are odious", w en

home, has stung the Liberal organ ho the quick. It commenced with the Minister's jumbled attempt to compare costs of his unfinished and cheaply built highways with the substantial and tested tranc- Oanada structure, and now. when the rebound hits with c stunning blow, it. "grasps thestraw" in the hopeer of keeping its head aibove wa .

On the fro-mile stretch of Mac- Millan highway. after four years of test‘, it finds a. few yards. at l. difficult foundation spot. near Brookfleld, mooted by this win- bar's extreme severity. And this drop out of the buckets, it. sets up to offset the crumbling of the twfl McIntyre highways, c. total of about 4 miles, costing (including repairs) almost hol-f as much to

holds the imord for amusing taxis-i u"? Pfilvln“ B‘ u" wh°l° 5° mil" t-lon. Rouyn actually has a special tax on editors. Editor Jones, of the

of Conservative construction. And

obtained

ished in

to

“mum-i

Sllfpflfiéd

hing and I am,

the unpo.

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d’

bility.

Are highways

assume. reasonalfl

pertinent to con

surfacing laid down in 1030, but owing to the fine grained texture the De- partment decided to let the pave- ment stand laid time as need for the seal coat be- came apparent. Borne 506M011: will need a seal coat in pomiblc 5o let the p:

ill X940. And it is this little more than half finished pavement, to be fln

cost" pav J. P. McIntyre had the eflrontiery

y». t» zoom-ins. airs-aim highway, that. has braver: itself in ' e its four years of severest test.

The misrepresentation is even more damaging when we consider rnmen the

To analyze oar-chi reports, there is evl face that the financial statement has been cooked have personal knowledge of what Iknowofsuchoarrledoverf to your ever since may ao- oflice. tihe boasted

As shown in comparing "Low

of lilfinlsticr

l“ Public Forum

l? For ttawa To plain SPIUNQ TONIC —-— ' Bt¢o'“"i., tomb mo mm De

simrmtpavementfiwimthc pu-mq,.mqnugqggu 0D llllhwihhlhfilllhlllifllylllmwgym’mqv “Maud. IOB 7A1,‘

the bllfld- l" the d" mi- oom- um on the mu P10

liberate purpose of deceiving the o! the mum». m”. m“; w.

people. This ducrlptlon is the cum some a _ Am, ‘u,

more flagrant when we further ‘momma, mm"- pm W,

read (en r’: report. page l5): u“ m, can.“ m; w 5° a‘;

"It; was intention tofmtlpc De- than "lhUMDflltNfl-HII”

on the surface,

l8

this

1N8 or 1940, lhfi

emerit, which

square yard. and in which challenge to the Minister or his press mouthpiece to specify those as used. in cubic yards. which they dare not attempt iodo. As stated before I am not sur-l prised, nor will those who knowbe