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‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker TMI the Weakest Ink."

TUESDAY, JAN. Z5. 19M

Votes For The Forces

mnoiu; the forecasts of legislation at tlie next tcssion of llarliaiucnt which opens at the ei1d of the 111011111 is that of a bill to enable the talc- in11 of votes of 11101.1 and women of the urmcd forces. lt ivill apply 1o all our iiieit and \\'o- iiien of the services wherever they may be at the next general election.

\\'hai is to he done by formal act of Parlia- nient was done, 1a=t time. iii 19.10, on the spur of the moment, by order-iii-couiicil. The sys- tem of voting will be the sainc. Our citizens on service ziwav from their homes, either ii1 Can- ada or L1\'L‘l'>“fl$. will be enabled to vule i111‘ iiandicltites of tlicir own particular lioiiic con- stilticiicics. liverv scrvicc 1ii1it will have its iiwii iw-itiriiiii: officer" and separate scrutiiiceis 1111' each nf the parties. This is a welcome dc- parturc from the reprehensible practice follow- r-d by the 11111135 (ioveriimenl in this Province, ivlici-i-hv our s1: e 101 cs overseas were coolly deprived of their franchise.

'l'licre is no longer an) argunicitt iii Canada upon the necessity of preserving the franchise for the people o1’ our armed foices. It is uti- tliinkahlc that it should not he done. 1t is ad- niitietllv" a highly unsatisfactory condition lllZ‘L perhaps as inaiiv as six or seven liuitrlred thous- and of our voters should have to cast their votes as abscutces-but it is one of the conditions im- posed upon us l1) war. Nothing else could he as bad as no‘. giving our service men and wo- men the vote.

.\n obiect lesson iii this business is provided hv the recent ilealing of U. S. Congress with the same suhiect. Congress has side-stepped responsibility‘ by 011111112 the hiirilen of provid- ing vofng facilities at the November elections for service men and woincn overseas upon the

s b11111 such it great public outcry :11.

‘l on, which. it is charged, may disfran-

cliisc millions of voters. that it seems altogether

probable that Congress niav be obliged to rc-

call its legislation anil instead do something like

1111.11 i.- goinci in be ilone as a matter of course in ttttawa.

Burns’ Concert the ai1iiivc1's11r_v of Robert Burns, Scotland's "ti-t poet should not he alloivcrl to pass ur-

tven in wtirtinic; and it is a matter of saris action to 1101c that an exceptionally fine concert \\'1ll lliflflv‘ the occasion in this city. VlJre- sciiictl hv the lli-Y Grails Chili under the direc- lion of .\lrs. ltogcrs aitrl Mrs. Roper, the enter- taiiiiiicii‘. takes itie form of an (iriginal sketclt. with the sreur laid in a Prince Edward l5l1t11<l lioinc and with a wide variety of entertainment, iiicludiitq selections liy ‘the RAJ‘. pipe band its well as dancing and sinmng.

The Plums’ concert has always DYOYPtl i popular feature here. and tonight's attettdairce at Prince of \\ ales Collect‘ Hill Prmllfics l° "3 both large and anfiffililllll

Supremacy Of Parliament

Now that Parliament is about to meet. could not sonic-thing be done to taper off the extravag- ance." of Cabinet rule? Since I949. WCalIS ll“? ljlobe and .\lail, this nation has existed virtual- lv as :1 dictatorship. .\l1 the rights 3117i llt-“Ymi oj Parliament have passed into the hands of tlie Cabinet to do with "in secret council as i: pleases." Even Parliament's elementary [right tn examine and to criticize has been restricted, the Government "iviiig to the Commons 011i‘! such information as it chooses to give. Wltllfi it was imperative that freedoitrof action be given the Govcrnmeitt, it is impossible t0 exaggerate the dangers of the abandonment of Parliament.

No 011e, perhaps, ever spoke out againsbthe ahandriiiiiieitt of. Parliament with greater vigor titan tllll l’riine Minister King. .'\s Leader of the Opposition in i032 he lcd the attacks 011 tl1¢ ileunett Governments administration of the lfiieuipl-ivnient and Farm Relief Act by Ofdel“ Eu-Coiincil. ln one speech. filling I5 pages 0t l1fll|>;tl‘1.l, he said. among other things:

“The ronstitiitioiizil basis on which this Par- liament is founded is the right of the Commons and the Senate to pass legislation, and for the (‘onunons and the Senate alone to exercise that 1,-1~]11_ 111.1 11.1; the right to he usurped by the .\.llllsti'v 1.1" the ilay . . A partv that takes the position that the Executive (Cabinet) nrust be supreme over Parliament is taking a position i-shirli is irrccoiicilalile with everything that re- late.» tr. ClJll>lllllllO1lfll government . . -

"I 1].. 11111. rare in what form it presents it- self, whcilici- it relates to unemployment relief or to auv other question . . . the doctrine that the llinistijv 1s sitpreine over Parliament, that Parliament >llflll part with its right to control in lllali-‘rs 11f taxation and public expenditure; that lK-irlizunerit shall part with its right to legislate upon litfttt‘, order and good government, and leave these things to the Extend‘... to do with in secret. Cabinet council as it pleases... is irrvcoiicilztble with anything iii the nature of mnstitiititinal §()\'(‘l‘lll1l(‘lll- ..

“You (flllllfll carrv on the business of Parlia- nirnl unless v01: observe the conventional rules with respect in lkirlizititentary procedure in the control 11f finaiicrs and everything else: tinlcss r1111 frilluv.’ 11111 accepted rules vou cannot do any l1ll>lllt'\§ at all iii Ptirliniiieiit."

\i1d \'.llCll the iiatiuifs business is taken be- 1111111 the control 11f Parliament, Mr. King then iminiaiut-il. vnu have lllClillOTSlllP. "Arbitrary itllllltirllv‘ helm 111 breed arhitrarv authority," he said. izuil warned the nation: "The enioviitesit of a certain 111111111111 of absolute power creates

an appetite for more in the way of absolute power, and finally ablolutilm knows no boundl."

In this the Prime Minister ha: been proved ahundantlv true. Th; appetite of his Govern- ment has been insatiable. Its absolutisiii is boundless. In the first three year: and three months of the war it passed 32,274 Orders-in- Council. The grand total now exceeds 40,000. These orders made rules, restrictions, regula- tions, controls which govern the people, iiidivid- uallv and collectively, in everything they do, every hour of the day. The rights and privi~ ieges of the Provinces, like those of the Com- mons, have all but vanished. In too many cases the laws, arbitrarily imposed. are arbitrarily tipheld, being above and beyond the challenge of the courts.

If the need then was grave, the need to re- u

move the menace of-despotism unlimited is even graver today. Emergencies which once insti- fied severe action do not remain. We have lJC"lll'l tapering off in iiiaiiy phases of the war program. It is not a matter of uprootiiig cou- trols or prematurely repealing still useful laws, These must be tinravelled slowly and with great care. But they should be unravelled by and in tltrfgoocl judgment of Parliament.

— EDITORIAL NOTES -

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Our Febmlry snowfall has come a little early. I I I I

The ice in the river is reported to be not too sound. n n1 i O Nazi U-boats and radio-controlled glider bombers are still a threat to our convoys off the coast of Europe. I I I Robert Burns, poet, patriot, 1iliilosoplier, born this date i759: No\v's the day, and iiowls the hour: See the front of battle lour, See approach proud Edward's power- Chains and slavery... Liberty's in everv blow l—- Ikf tis do or die! 1v e a- a There will be no production of pleasure cars in the United States until the end of the war with Japan, a “far Production Board official declares there in spiking “widespread rumors" i1 general return to civilian production is i11 the immediate offing. Mr. John C Virrlen, regional \\'.P.l3. director", said in a statement that re- cent contract cancellations and cutbacks “are no indication a recotiversioii to civilian production is imminent" I I I I The unkiudest cut! A writer in Saturdayi" Night declares Hon. Ian Mackenzie, Xlinistei‘ of llealth, has so outstayed his welcome in his Vancouver constituency; that the best thing he can do if he desires rc-clcction to the House of (Toiniuons. is to follow the example of Mackenzie King. Dutiniiig and Ralstoii under similar cir- cumstances, and seek Qflllllffll refuge in Prince Edward Island. 1 t i n .-\t the recent celebration of B.B.C.'s twenty- first birthday one of the speakers said “l 211011111 like to say that I hope that the 13.11. '., now that it is of age, will grow out of jazz and life histories of iazz band leaders. 'l‘lierc are !l"l(ll1>\"'L'l'CZlI painters ai1d sculptors and even great scientists of our time, and they have life histories too. It seems to me that these are more important than the life histories of jazz band leaders." If he had been speaking at the LILC. lit: no doubt would ltave tidded hockeiists. ctc., to the list 1o "grow out of." i i I I

I11 Federal affairs in Quebec, it is recognized that the Liberals will experience some difficulty in maintaining a balance between right and left. and should it chance that big business joins forces with the Progressive Conservatives, aiid organized Labour support the C.C.li. it is felt that the Liberal party would be in a tight spot. lliit as in Quebec Province the C.C.l". and the Conservative partv are not yet electorally dan- gerous, the Liberals alone are left to provide the i11ain opposition to the Nationalist elements. This fact both complicates and simplifies the issue. inasmuch as the renaissance of the old "parti rouge" can be predicted, which means a trulv Quebec party appealing with full force to op- pose the Union Nationale and the Bloc Pop- ulaire.

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Feast 0f the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle, the greatest figure in the history of Christianity after Christ Himself; born at Tar- sLis, his father being a Jew in the possession of Roman citizenship, lie l1in1self, therefore, was born free; of the tribe of Benjamin he received the tribal name of Saul and also the Roman i1a1ue of Patilileariied the trade oftentmakenand studied under Gamaliel at Jerusalem; showed strong Pliarisaical tendencies, being a determin- ed opponent of Christianity believing it to be op- posed to God's Will; considered it I. sacred duty to persecute the Christians to the utmost; was appointed agent by the Sanherlrin to extermin- ate the Christian Church at Damascus; on the way thither had the-vision of Jesus which changed his career, and from being an oppon- ent of Christianity became its strongest sup- porter; baptized by Aiianias, began to (lcclare that Jesus was the Sort of God.

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"It is easy for real estate brokers to think that their troubles will be over once the war is won." says a classified advertisement by W. H. lloslcy 8i Company, real estate broker, 'I‘oront1-1. "All this talk of millions of new homes in the next decade is music to their ears-and should be. But business volume of the right sort for real estate brokers isn't going to be automatic after the war. A sellers’ market sucli as prevails today on existing bomes"\von’t last long once new building hits its stride. Nor will people flush with war bonds and savings be so lavish with their expenditures once the family income gets ivitliin more customary bounds . . . ‘Mativ a family is going to be shocked to find iiist how much higher homes are priced after the war. Tlicv are going to weigh the alliirements of a new home versus a new ear . . . Many may decide to spend their (li)\\'l'1~l73‘\‘1ll('lll money for an airplane ride to London, or an automobile

trip to Alaska,"

THE CHARLUFTlFFOWN GUARDIAN

llotos By The Way

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A famed iiurkemu‘ flailing, nut the brain of. woman ll equal to man's, only adds new fuel to m old controversy. No female of siitrlt will endure thls shin-Chicago Daily N

Longfellow termed nmwfllkel "the poem of the air" and ‘Ihumas Hood referred to snow u "the beautiful." The explanation may be that neither poet: had to do much

ovelllxig.—lvlont.real Gazette.

Ruminlfl. ll. is slid. l: Ieldy to make peace. tn fact. eager. But Riunanla was Just. as eager to got lntn the war, when it. thought. the

leklnuwotildbenehaaiirtao. and lt. wu easier to set: tn that 1t. ls to let cub-Ottawa Journal.

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Reports indluate that the people of the Balkan countries are hungry for peace. 111i: time has passet. when Hitler could satasfy their up- Detltes by Drumlstu; them enerous slices of one BJIOCIIBFr-T e New Yorker.

Science. the ivouilerful, has per‘- fected a light. bulb which continues t.u burn alter you turn Llle current off. Now to explain matters to the air-raid warden-Wlnnlpeg Trl- Dune.

As a nlllltm particularly depend- ent upon world trade, Canada has the most immediate and selfish 1n- terest 111 the tstabhslinlent _ ot _tt u-orlc. organization to inamtaui peace and ensure as free as possible a flow of world trade.—w1nn1peg 1311mm.

All Victory gardeners will give I cheer for the invention cf a Clilc- ago inan of a iiietltod to plant seeds easily at the right distances apart. He has rleslg-uerl a "gelatin- lzed seed-bearing cord" ivineii call be laid down like a. zipper and sDaces the seeds at exactly the right intervals. Alter a brief time underground the gelatin dissolves, leaving the see-cs growing liistll)’. gllYWfl-Y, we hope so. — Vancouver

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More babies were barn lii "w Utiited States in 1943 than in any Drevious your 111 the coiuitiiifls his- tory. with the total expected to reach an extraordinary figure of 3,200,000. According 1.0 the statistic- tam of the Metropolitan Life insin- mee Company, this number is 200,- 000 greater than for Z942 and tiearlv 1,000,000 greater than foi~ the dc- presslon year 193:1, a low mint. With the new iaeak in the number of births, 1943 marks also the fourth year in succession of 1'11- creased birth rates.

l have just come in fr0iu Ute garden filled with a profound res- Deet. for the 1x11111103 sense of the woriti. O11 the edge of the pansy bed I‘ found several olcl liia

uppein Notti- tnz astonishing in that? I agree; worms contmonlv 111112 the mouths of their burrows with dead leaves. But note this striking faet - in every instance the worm had dravrn its leaf into the 1111011111 cf the burrow by its tzipc-rerl tip. which was the obviouslv s‘ 1e 111111: to do. 1 slioulr. liarttlv nave dared to read evidence of intelligence into this if I had not. the authority of Darwin himself on the matter. He noticed the same thing 111 111s 1.1111‘- cleri. made many exneritnents with wedge-shaped bits of. imrier and

leaves-Leeds Yorkshire Post.

United NM‘ merchant seamen

e1‘ etirtuiiis" as

available

coast to coast.

¢L1OVER LEAF SALMON

1 POUND

is coming

back . . . rationed, of course, so that all may share the limited supplies

Everything possible is being done to rush de- liveries to every retail store in Canada from