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CHARLOTTI-.'TO VVN.

'l'l'I'2SDAY, JUNE 5, I951

Defence Problems of common concern

Canada is to be represented at the forthcoming ('0nfercnCe of defence min- isters only by a civilian and a military ob- server. The defence ministers of the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia meet in Lon- don on the 21st to deal with certain defence problems of common concern to the par- ticipating countries.

Prime Minister St. Laurent indicates that this country's interests in the matters to be discussed, including the Middle East and questions of equipment and training. are less direct. than those of the other Commonwealth countries which will be rep- resented there.

From the poilil of view of commit- ments and probable operations the Prime Minister's response can hardly be quar- reiled with, butat the same time threats to peace are just as dangerous to us lvhcth- er they are initially in the North Atlantic area or in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is well that we should be represented at all in the conference but if stronger repre- sentation would serve to lessen the danger from that source then active participation would be well worth while.

Fixed Date For General Elections

A seemingly innocent-proposal put be- fore thc Commons by Mr. W. D. Wylie (S.C.-Medicine Hal) would set a certain date for all election every four years.

The proposal would result in very great convenience to those charged with organ- izing the ,-:,eneral election and also to the political parties ili timing their effort for the greatest advantage.

On the other hand the party in power and more particularly the Prime Minister would lose the advantage of selecting the exact time for an appeal to the country. More serious, it would eliminate any ap- peal to the electorate on important issues or when the Covcrnmeiit. lacks a clear ina- jority to mialilc it to pill its policies into effect.

A fixed date for gelicral elections would make Parliament that much more inde- pendent of the Adniiliistration but at the expense of l7C(.'0llllIlE far too independent. of the people as well.

impressive Memorials

'l'lic heroic deeds of five Canadian fight- ing men, all winners of the Victoria Cross in the First World War, are being per- pctuated by the Canadian Board of Geo- grapliical Ninics in a liiost impressive man- ner. Five hitherto anonymous peaks in Jasper National Park have been named after these gallant nicli, Pic. John Chip- man licrr. Pic. (lccil John Kinross, Lieut. (X B. lVlcl..caii, Pic. John George Pattison and Sgt. R. 1.. Zcngel, all of Alberta.

The five peaks stretch in a northwest line, a few miles northwest of the village and wit.liiii view from the towli and from Jasper Park Lodge. Mount Kinross towers 8,985 feet high immediately west Of PyFH' mid Mountain, one of the most spectacular peaks in the Park. Then, in a line, come Mount Kerr, 8,664 feet; Mount McKean. 8,785 feet: Mount Pattison, 7,873 feet; and Mount ZCWZCI. 9,217.3 feet. Mount Zcngcl, the farthest: removed, is 12 miles distant from Mount Kiliross.

Toots And Whistles

Now that Diesel engines are replacing steam locomotives on Canadian railways, there is concern that the familiar sound of the steam whistles of trains, no longer will be heard in the land. This is true al- ready of Prince Edward island. The horns of Diesel engines sound like the tooling of some glorified motor truck and to many ears lack that certain haunting and even romantic quality heard in the sound of a whistling train. There is an overtone in the sound that makes one seem to feel the far reaches of the land toward which the: train journeys.

This, comments an exchange, may mean more to oldstcrs than youngsters. It may be that a new generation growing up to the toot of Diesel engines, will find as much significance and association with the blatant blare of 9. Diesel engine. Maybe so but more likely not. The Board of Transport Commissioners seem to think hot: but they have to. more practical reason

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a more train-like way of tooting than they do today. The Board thinks that motorists are getting hit- at crossings because they don't recognize the new sound. The Mont- real Star, on the other hand, thinks they get hit because for every driver who takes the toot for a warning there is another who takes it as a dare and steps on the gas to get to the crossing ahead of the train.

That may be, but in the U. S. the South- ern Railway has changed the air horns of the Diesel engines to make them sound like steam whistles. This action was taken ac- cording to the railway's president, becaus: people living along the way missed the friendly toot of the familiar steam whistle echoing over the countryside.

IEDIIURIAI. NUIES '

The Board of Transport Commissioners will be singularly privileged to hear Is- landers, for once, arguing: how small is this Province.

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In Quebec, starting Friday autos with 1950 licence plates are seized by the police alid not returned until licence and storage are paid.

O O O

The rainy season is starting in Korea but troops there will endure the discomfort without sufffering the disillusionment of their predecessors figzliting in sunny France and Italy.

O O C

Orlando Gibbons, English composer and organist, died this date 1625. Gibbons' madrigals, anthems and hymns are master- pieces of their kind. Historically he is as- sociated with the development of music for stringed instruments.

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The early return of the car ferry Abe- gwcit from her annual refit in Halifax of- fers hope that the shuttle service between Borden and Cape Tormentine will be in op- eration well before the expected date, the 15th.

I O O - The senate, which has shelved it re- form resolution, has since been busily dis- cussing the why and the wherefore of variation in Army Officers pay, question- ings which Senator Haig says timake the Senate Committee concerned, the laughing stock of the country." 0 I O

The House of Commons elections com- mittee has approved a new peek-proof method of folding the ballot, in three folds rather than two, so that the forthcomine, by-elections may be the last occasion when some misguided occupants of the polling roolii try to see how ballots are marked while the deputy returning officer tears off the countcrfoil.

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For 13 weeks the Big Four Deputy For- eign Ministers have been attempting to settle the subject matter for their Ministers to discuss. Now the Western powers have invited the Russian Foreign Minister to hold the meeting al”iyW'-ly, a shift to high- er-levcl discussion which could have been made as soon as it was found that the in- structions of the Deputy Ministers did not permit them to agree.

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The terrific sales cuts in New York re- sulted from a May 21 decision of the Su- preme Court holding that non-signers of agreements with manufacturers of stand- ard rlriced articles are not bound by fair- trade laws in 45 states. The price reduct- ions apply to liationaily-advertised house- hold appliances, drugs, books, sporting goods, childrenls articles, cooking utensils, men's articles and many other items.

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A motion to increase the iiiinistcrial pension of the Presbyterian Church of the U. S. A. from 55600 to 551,200 has been turned down by the General Assembly at Cincinnati as it would require a 3521.000,- 000 increase in the reserve fund, and an in- crease of 27 per cent in the amount which pastors and their churches now jointly con- tribute to the pension fund. The Asscmblv expressed fear .that such an increase in contributions might discourage ministers and their churches from participating in the pension program and jeopardize the whole setup.

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A politician who accomplishes things is certain to be subject to abuse. Trade Min- istcr I-Iowe was described in the House as a dictator by Mr. Howard Green. Progres- sive Conservativc member for Vancouver Quadra. During an exchange with the minister on the Torquay Trade Agree- ments, Mr. Green urged support for Brit- ish preferential tariffs and accused the Government of "whittling away" the pref- erences, adding it would do away with the preferences "if. they thought they could get away with it." "You take yourself too seriously," Mr. Howe retorted. "If we want- ed to 'get away with it', who would stop us?" snapped Mr. Green: "He grows more dictatorial every session. Some day the Canadian people are going to wake up and

see what a dictatorthey have running the

in We that Diesel cosine -.h.9."!sl.h.':W9”"W-"

CHARLUTTETOWN census Nonsense .

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THE DOUGLAS CASE

Th" i0”0lVim2 term from the N'D0rt of ii spccuil committee on tho Lalili Settlement Bill, subniil- ted to the llouse of Assembly on April 16. 1840, deals with one of mzliiy iiistanccs of oppressive prosecution of tile inrmcr tenants of this island in d.-l,ls gone by:

"Ill:-nv or nur ugricullurists lime barn compelled to pay rent. being tlcnicrl nl the same time .-i valid lcnsc: on several townships the rents have been exacted in British coin, and several individ- unis have been obliged to pay rent for ll izrcatcr quantity of land

than their farms measured. As nn illslancc. the case of Janie: Dnulzlas, of Bay Fortune. may be tallcn.

"ills lcnsr slnics the land leased at. .l50 acres, and scverill years afterwards, when it is measured. it is found to contain only 102 ncrcs-- his lcnsr-. had been for folly years. The son of the dc- ccnsetl giullitcc of the township (whose son was the ucknowlcdgcd agent for the widow and the rest of lilf' friiiiily) bargains with Doliglas to extend the lease 999 years, and rcccivcs for this ex- tension L15. This extended lensc. as well ns the first lcasc. has been laid licfnre your committee. "Sonictinic iiftcrwnrrls, Douglas ascertziilis that the will of the deceased grantee prohibited any lease being cxtcndell beyond the life of his widow. Douglas tries. both at liiw rind in equity, to get. his rmit reduced, in proportion to tilt? dcllilclition of the measure-

ment, and to get credit for the money ohlaincll under the fnlsc prctciicc of extending the dur-

ation of his lcnsc; mid neither by law nor in equity has he. in pro- ceedings protrnctcd through eight years. been able to get. TCGNESS. but iins been stripped of his pro- pr-rty for nllclzcri nrrcnrs of rent which he had rcrilly paid. and :5 llarnsscrl witll (llialiccry prosecu- tions, for the expenses of those who have been benefited b)' M5 ht-ins: (icfmudctl.

”'ilo crown the whole, it crim- innl prosecution has hr-en institut- ed nizninst. one of his sous. 1: young mull of ninclccn yours oi age. for nn nllcgcd assault on the Sheriff. at tile day of the stile of the property distraincd from his father: the Slicrlff, on his exam- illfIii0Il, stairs flint he was assault- NI hy the )ouiig iiiiiii, while all the other vvilncsscs maintain that tliov were present. (hiring the whole szilc. rind ihnl. the Sheriff was lint tissnulted by Douiilnv (tr any ollier individual.

"Your committee submit that many inslnnu-s of oppression slin- ilnr to the nlinvc huvc been con- sliniinzllcd ill this island. the oP' prcsscd lint hnvii1'.! means 1-? c:lrry nil pi'ncr-ctlinlzs in CililllCCf.V

to n linlll mncllisioll: And HIM it is cxpcrllcnt that the case of Jiimcs Dnurzlrls should he midn-

tslincd at the public cxpcnsc. ll” finally decided."

The House divlrlcrl on the above. reconimcndatloil. which was adopt- ed on the cnstlrlizg vote of the Speaker, William Loopcr. By lf'n.V oi nmcndmcnt. the following (.'iflilSt' was added:

”Whlch case is taken. not as the ciisc of an individual. but as it is of the utmost consequence that. the important rights therein

led to derive nrly expectation thin the lfouse will apply the public money to their private suits." The sequel is given in the Journnill of the House of April 22. 1840. when Mr. Lebacheui from the committee appointed to wait upon Lieutenant Governor Sir Charles Fltzlioy in the mat- ter. reported that His Excellency had been pleased to make the

following reply:

"Ill reply to this Address of

the House of Assembly, request-

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A pen company thrown out its time clocks in favor of the honor system. And it was the honor s)stem-as Eddie Cantor once told it-that. took, 12 strokes off his golf score.-(The Winnipeg Trib- une.) '

General Eisenhower's efforts to build a united military front. in Europe are certainly not. going to be made any easier by a series of -articles on the last war Just. eon- cludcd in Life Magazine. From -iflrst to last. these have almost to- tally ignored the fact. that there were others than American sol- icliers and American generals fight- ing. "We did it single-handed: We mlide all the right. decisions” is the tone...1f peace prevailed today and it this were just. anoth- er of those "we won the war" pieces by an unknown author it. would not. greatly matter. But the present times are far from nor- mal and the author. Generaiomar N. Bradley, is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the Un- ,itcd States.-(Fiiiancial Post.)

Mr. Sam W. Kratzer, 80. is cur- rently riding from Alhambra. California, to Chicago, Illinois, on It motor scooter. The day he set. out on his trip the news wires carrled an item about Mr. James W. Harper, 82, of Butte, Montana. who found himself in police court for striking I mere stripling of 68. Mr. Kratzer and Mr. Harper are whimsical reminders of the fact that. because of the achieve- ments of medical science in the last. half century. people are living longer. feeling younger. All stat- istics indicate that an increasing- ly large proportion of the popula- tion will consist of "old folks" as time goes on.-(Saint John Tele- graph-Journal.)

We are accustomed to regard the Elizabethans as valiant tren- chermcn who ate and drunk with lhearty appetites. But apparently iwlicn they did decide to diet

themselves their regimen was as strict as anything known to this Inge-at least, it was if they fol- 'lclvcd the instructions laid down

by their own Glorlena. The

”Bi-itlsh Medical Journal" quotes '3 letter of advice from Queen Elizabeth lo the Earl of Shrews- lbury regarding the meals to be lserved for Lord Leicester, who -was staying with the Earl and itnkinlz the waters at a neighbor-

ing that a suit now pending in the Court of Chancery of Ulll Island. wherein one Jrlnics Douc- lns, of Bay Fortune. is in party, should he carried on at the pub- lic 0-Vncneo. I feel compelled to 0-Vl1rcss my opinion thnt. indu- pcndcnt of all other" conslde. ntlons, the novelty and peculiar.

"ll of this application precluau me from complying Wm, H", wishes of the House of Ag. scmbly."

I Notes By The Way 1-

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ins spa. In no case was he to be allowed to exceed "by the day of

his meat tzwo ounces of flesh..."

and for drink one-twentieth of ti pint. of wine to comfort his stoni- ach and as much of St. Anne's sacred water as he lusteth to drink". Lord Leicester's stomach. one fears, would not get. much comfort out. of one ounce of wine per day and two nuiiccs of flesh. Ou feast. days and festivals he could relax ullttle-but only a very little. The meagre wine ration was not. increased. but ”ss is fit for a man of his quality. we can be content," wrote the Queen, ”you shall enlarge his diet. by lil- lowing him for his dinner the shoulder of B wren, and for his supper a leg of the same besides his ordinary ounces."--(Manches ter Gllni'diilll.l

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(The Gnette.

The issues of principle involved iii the Government's move to boost. postal rates for delivery of newspapers and periodicals, and the summary manner in which in long established policy is being jettisoned, were precisely spot- lighted last week by Mr. George A. Drew, Opposition Leader. and o t h e r Progressive Conservative members of the House of Com- mons. They ere to be commended for bringing forcefully before the House and clarifying for the pub- lie the major. questionable implic- ntibns of the step now being taken.

The parliamentary debate upon the matter has at least brought out into the open for public edif- ication, especially for newspaper readers and most especially for those in rural districts, the basic change of policy being made and the regrettable effects that are bound to arise from it. In essence, the Government is scrapping or at least seriously breaching la. pol- icy, in effect ever since Confed- nrstioii. It was designed to facil- itate the dissemination of news and opinion on current events as widely as possible. in particular to those in areas beyond the reach or urban home-delivery liiid street sale services.

0 e e . Mr. Drew and his eollcaglies properly challenged the argument of the Postmaster-General that the admittedly low mall rates hitherto prevailing were a "sub- sidy," with thc implication that. the newspapers in some way ben- efited from them. Mr. Rlnfret also contended that the new rates were in the category of "fees for services rendered." though he es- timated that there would still be a considerable "deficit" in postal handling of papers and periodic. ale. This sweeps aside with nar- row brusqueness s well-rooted and accepted principle. originated in Britain as long ago as the Cri- mean War. that there should be it minimum of impediment to ac- cess to the news for residents of outlying. non-urban areas.

The maintenance of this policy has by no means resulted solely from the gracious bencflriciicc of the Government but, from it joint honoring of a sound principle by both the Government and the newspapers. The newspiiperll have not benefited from the low bulk- mailing rates, except iiidirectly from modest extension of their circulations. They have passed on the savings in distribution charges in the form of rural sub- scription rates which. for every daily newspaper in Canada. are lower than those for home deliv- cry or street sales.

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The proportions of the higher rates now proposed make it high- ly improbable thatihe newspapers will be lible to continue for long to service non-urban readers at the more attractive rates.

In the final analysis. therefore. the Government is not exacting these extra. revenues from the newspapers, as "fees for services rendered." but from rural renders whose receipt of the news has been regarded for many decades

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ability of the news - ' sorb these higher cogilsmirir tarsal" button is aggravated by the heir" burden of newsprint prices a 1 W ther boost in which has 'rece.i.i' been announced,snd by me hem! increased sales tax on llEWSp1"Inty which incidentally is not collected on paper used by either domecuc or imported magazines. " O O Q

The insistence of the ' ment on exacting this exiifviff enue from B hitherto-eiicoiirsgg; segment of news readers is hm, justified by in deficiency of rev? cnue from either the Post, om” itself or from taxation and on," sources. Buoyant Federal m-en, lies of recent years have produced substantial budget. surpluses over expenditures. and Post. Office 0'1. eretions have contributed um. share to these surpluses. Govern: ment. accounts show that m postal revenues-excluding income and expenses of revenue Post 01. fices-in recent years have l'llll above administrlitivc and m.m,. ing costs by as lnilch as sin filli- liolis in year. though ill recent years the margin has riiii-rowed 1,, between 32 millions and 33 mil, ll0nS.