PAGE Form‘ The Charlottetown Guardian

Prelidenl LiauL-Col. \V. Cheater B. iii-Lure Vine-Preeldont J. B. Burnett, I‘. l. I. Editor and Managing .1. B. Burnett. l‘. J. l- Serretary Lleut. Col ll. A. lllrliinnon D. l. 0. Aaotwlatn Editor: Frank Walker and i). K. Cllflll

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 30L1T1937

More And Worse‘ Dictatorship

Our dispossessed North Shore proprietors are not the only ones whose legal rights the Campbell Government has invaded by legisla- tion repugnant to British principles of justice irndfrccdoiu. We have pointed out that the same subversive principle of expropriation without right of appeal. except lo the Government, is vmbodicd in The Road Act, I936. Brit there is zluothcr" class, more rtnfortrinate still, whose rights under ihc Chaircery .~\ct have hereto- fore hecrr rigidly safeguarded, and have n-Liw been dirrtzrttiriallji invaded. \\'c refer to the irinraics of lrialconrvurlil llospital. _

In ihi- as in other Provinces there is felt t0 he ' v11! nor-d of judicial control over the ap- rrt of cristodiairs oi the property of dcrairgcd persons. \\'here it is neces- sary in {tppnitit a committee of the person and i-si if" oi a menial patient. the practice has been lv to thc (our-t oi Chant-cry for an or-

ti‘ r; curl this t\l'tlt‘l' is only issucd ziftcr the

(our! has llllllllffitl into all this circuinstzinces.

oh’. irnwl medical and other tcstiinoiry, and bond-

crl the apporiiiccs.

\\ liitl is ihv situation iii this Province today"?

In an Lllllclltlllltdll to the ‘Chancery .-\ct passed

. uu;ii.iiiiiori=lr' and‘ without l]llL‘>.ll0ll by our Lib- eral lrcz-leitiirs last session. it is provided;

“li any person is and has been a Iiaticnt in llilr mood Ilospital for a continuous period of we y...r or upwards. and if no committee oi the pr-rson and cstzitc oi such patient has been appiiiiiir-il. the Secretary of the Board

>lil‘ll\".'> of balcoiuvuod “Ilospirzrl shall Zia ‘Ill/Xi i» In" a coiiiiiiitlvr of t/ic permit of siic/i. [ialiriil aim’ s/inl! as mi lire In" fllTFS/Ct/ quit/i tl/l the orient‘, fiizusrs, niiif rig/ll: coiifcircil or "nested xii a r i/iuiii/trt" a/‘piii/itrd by order of l/m Court."

l.‘ is further proridcd that "if rho/l iml lie '/"\_' f»- ilit- raid Sccrc/iiry- lo gin’ a bum] \' do‘ rim/i mmiiii/Icc.”

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7i" l"'r~l\tl given hv Premier Campbell for “DAN ation is vvnrthyuotiug. We quote from Ed y ‘Iriiir report April i, 193,", of his- state- ’ Then to the Legislature in committee:

1120b‘ ‘The Prenrier explained that the object. was

‘bra. t.“ znrrrilny the procedure and save expense in

of S, Ll“ cu e of estates orvired by Falconvvood patt-

ed lc curs. Under the present Act. committees have

R1 to n- Tl united to manage such estates and the

ltbie pr'<~'rr...e l5 expensive and cumbersome, especi-

rs Ll ‘n tire case of small estates, n. number of

U. E hftve been allcuved to go down, to pass

perf- rniw the hands of stranger's‘ or disappear alto-

. rrs, gctnrr, and the Government. is not. receiving

this) Irv-s and there is nothing for the malnlenfrncc

, T] ; or uipport of patents having such property.” 1 “lg; TI‘...- rcilvction on the administration of the ' 2,75,, (joint oi Cliairccry was urzidc apparently for the phi; purpose or emphasizing one thing: that the 1g‘? (rOVfiffllllCllt is not receiving ntaintcnance fees pm from the estates of certain patients at Falcon- and. l vxo-id. 1t reprwents the Government as acting o‘: l‘lq tho taxpaycrs; interests this regard. Brit." the w t. do ui tmil. All!‘ [cg/ii (l/lfiil imikrs" iin dir- i ‘ffl tier/inn lirlrrrrii ftrviiij] and iinii-fnyiiig firiliriifs. is? It applies indiscriminately to all persons who my have been patients in Falcouivoorl for a cou- rt“, , tmuous pcrioil of one year, if a committee has ab‘; not rrlrcaily been appointed. u \\‘lt.'rt had the appointment of a committee to i

do u-ith the Cairrpbcll Government in the irrat- tvr of the estates of patients It'll/hf!’ fcm" rwrrc ‘ lit-inf; rryyii/ifrlv firth]. rind TU/IOSL’ rig/iii 10cm j _, rift" unit/rd iiirilni- l/ic Cliriiirrryi lures‘ of Hui Pro. s’ That, surely, is a question our Lib-

il'i'¢ . i‘ r-rrl representatives should have asked before ' Il.'l~'*llllg this extraordinary legislation.

ITreIprcntIy, application to the court is not tirade to appoint a committee until a patient has hem some years in confinement, and is ascer- tained to he pPflllilllfillily incompetent to man- age, his own .-rffairs. fir, it may be, after frrll iirriuirv the tr-urt, decides not to grant such ap- piictrli-ui. The process in any casc-“vumber- sonic" 't may appear to the Campbell Govern- lllt‘lll—'.r‘ _,‘/;i' Hie fniirnllr [irolrr/imi. Iixperi- cilrr‘ riucr 1r long period of years has shown this pro‘ “in to hr; vcry necessary.

Thrlicr the lirrr" :11: anrvirilcrl by our Liberal wise- <'=<‘i"*- "i ~\"~‘Cl'(‘lfll'_\' of the Board of Trustees" ——- liiixPfllillClll riffici:il—licc0nrcs i/‘so fiicln a CFWY-“lllll” of the person and estate of the victim and i. iiirc-ir/l with “all the estate, powers, and i ' ~ r viir-ri-crl or vcstcrl in a committee ap- pii d hr lvrller- of the Court." Should the thiirt sufuriiiriiiilh: appoint a committee at the request of the pnticirts relatives or other per- sons. it: irrdiii- would be invalid,

.\ii-l the (invrirniucnt appointee puts up no mliliiq- "Y -'l‘i"rlI'il‘-'- ll!‘ is not oven required to ‘ trrrirlircc. a rrrtifivatc from the Medical Superin- tcnr ni; rr-hcrens the (“Quit of Chain-cry, be- fore lllillilllfi an order, had to have certificates from trio medical authorities as to the patienfs lllt'filll]lf'tt‘ll(‘_\'.

(‘in the .'rbn=cs likely to develop under such Iiiqii-lrriirilerl irirocmliu-o it i5 not ncghsn-y to (ltvell. '1 he point is that it vitiatcs the whole purpose of the. ("hairccry Act so far as the pm. teclioir afforded to these patients is concerned, and substitutes for judicial authority the author. it_v of a group of politicians. who ‘have already displaverl gros< inromjieteircy and partisaurslriji lfllllvftllllg with the property rights of our citizens.

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Ayr's Auld Brig

Scolsmen the world over, says the Manchester Guardian. will he relieved to hear that the Town Council of .‘\_\'t‘ has decided lff take further ad- vice before proceeding with the construction of n dam on the River .»\_\'r which would have the cffevt of suhurerging the hulk of its famous Arihl llrig. llir the brig has claims to reverence both in = age and in its association with Robert Burns.

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It is known to have been standing in r491 when James IV made a gift to some masons at work on it, arid it may be much older than the 15th century. When it was found at the beginning of this century to be insecure a fund widely con- tribrrted to by Scots at home and abroad was raised to restore it, and Lord Roscbery traits- ferred it in perpetual trust to the Ayr Town Council.

The building in Burns‘ day of a new bridge to supersede the old one moved the poet's by no means conservative genius to a warm defence of the past and toa rebuke of rashly “progressive? local authority. In his debate between the spirits of the two brigs he even inspired the Auld Brig to prophesy to its upstart neighbor:

Conceited gowkl pufPd up wl’ windy pride!

This rnony a year I've stood the flood and tide;

And though wt’ crazy cild I'm salt forfaim I‘11 be 5 Brig when ye're a shapeless cairn.

Oddly enough he was right, for the bridge built in his day went down in a storm ninety years Inter while the Auld Brig still survived.

'I‘orlzry the old and the new stand firmly side by sirle, and even the hasty motorist on the lat- tcr is impressed by the staunch piers and strong arches of the ancient structure. Only the mos! urgent civic needs should disturb that relation- ship.

H'allowe'en

'I‘hi.- year the eve oi .\ll Saints Day falls on Sunday. :urd the traditional observance of Hal- l0\ve'en takes place tonight. Innocent merry-

makingr on such an occasion is something which no one should object to. Modern children may be too sophisticated to believe iii spooks and witches. but they insist. and rightly so, in pre- tending that they do. llali the pleasure in life is in the game of make-believe and the adult who has forgotten how to react to the fascina- tirn of this game On Ilallowdeir is to be pitied. lhit there is a iliffcrcirce between frin-makiirg and wanton damage to property, or interference in any way with other people's rights. The police

“will be the alert to prevent rowrlyisin of airy

kind and those, young or sold, who break the law may expect to find themselves where such persons jiroperly belong.

A Worthy Cause

The Protestant Orphanage is making its an- nu1l public appeal and the collectors will start on their rounds Monday morning. It is scarce- ly necessary to enlarge. on the work the Orphan- age is doing, or the satisfactory manner in which it is doing it. Our citizens appreciate the. zeal of those who are devoting so much of their time and effort in keeping the institution on :1 sound financial basis, and have responded gen- erously in the past. The appeal this year is as urgent and necessary as ever.

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1 Editorial Notes I

The Rt. H011. A. Bonar Law died this date, 19.23.

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Tonrorrorv Halloween when, for once in a while. the youngsters will havehn opportunity ‘of preparing for All Saint‘s Day by attendance at church.

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Is Premier Campbell squaring himself with the leaders of the North Shore protest in the hope and expectation that the agitation will then collapse?

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Nobody, of any eonscqtreircc, now thinks iurich of the King-Rowell Commission, save and ex- cept Mr.- King himself, and, for the time being, our evening coutenrporzrryi. Every other body considers it prrrtizan and hopeless before it even lacgiirs its labours. Why then continue, an ex- pensive farce merely to save the face of Mr. Ixing?

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To "what depths of controversial depravity has our evening contemporary fallen when it seeks to cinbroil government officials in the dis- pute over Liberal unemployment relief abuses! It is not to the public brrt to the political heads of departments that such officials are responsible and the Government organs effort to involve them politically is beneath contempt.

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The Governor-General will soon have nearly as many letters after his name zrs Hon. Dr. Mac- Millan. 1t is announced McMaster University, Hamilton, will confer an honorary degree of l.l..l). on Lord Tweedsmtrir at the convocation on November 4. The Governor-Crcircral, ac- companied by Mr. A. S. Redfcrn, secretary of Licut. R. Scott, aide dc camp, will leave Ottawa for Hamilton on “fednesday, November 3, re- turning on the morning of November 5.

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Bishop Nclligzrn had the distinction of being consecrated at Edmonton by a. former Bishop of Charlottetown, Archbishop O'Leary, assisted by air Islander, Archbishop McGuigan, while air- other Island prelate, Archbishop Sinnott ob- served the ceremony though not an actual par- ticipant. How Islanders abroad rise to be ])l'illCr"S of the Church, or merchant princes (if they chose business careers). or chief justices, (if they prefer law) is something to marvel at and to be proud of.

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Evirlently the Federal Liberal government are still reckoning without the Senate. A dcsparch from Saint john, N.B. declares that as legisla- tion for the retirement of judges at the age of 7<5_rs expected to go through at next session, Chief justice Barry, New Brunswick, will retire to be succeeded by Hon. j. E. Michaud, Minis- ter of Iiislrcrics, who will be succeeded by Mr. \V. M. Ryan, I\'.LT., Saint john. Mr. justice (lrintnres wonldr also come under the proposer] retiral rrrle, anrl iii his case it is announced, I-Ion. J. B. McNair, K.C., Attorney-General would be promoted. All this, of course, is conditional on the Conservative majority in the Session being such political suicides as to approve of the pro- posed iiery legislation in the interest of deserv- ing aspiring Griu, a

THE CHARLOTTETOWN gpnnorm

illffii? av ‘nu: war

The Japanese are very much like everybody else 1n the human funda- mentals. No nation as a whole is likely in approve the killing or children or the bombing of homes. People are not. that cruel. Yet child- ren will be killed and homes wfll be bombed 1n every modern way. Why? Because the people at. war will not. know what their own governments are doing. Modern war ls, above all, ruthless. It has to be that way. Military leaders wtll~ use “frightful- ncss" because they fear they will lose if they do not-Victoria Times.

We are looking out for ourselves. We have been slow to learn about. walking warty 1n tough neighbour- hoods, but we have learned a little. The possibilities of trouble entailed 1n moving arms 1n United States strips into the Far Eastern trouble area. are ones the President wisely moves to avoid. To guarantee or by‘ silence to imply a guarantee of the safety of private shipping 1f the_ same trade would entail the same hazards. So Mr. Roosevelt withdraws that. guarantee. 1n both these mat-' ters he speaks for practically all ofl us. We are determined to avoid by] all means the war ccniagton whlch_ ls everywhere in the n r.—Detroit

News.

"Every penny kills a Japanese" is the chant of Chinese children col- lecting money for the troops. Llvingr ls cheaper in the Orient, and no doubt life is cheaper. l , but 1f the cost of killing a soldier were onlY B penny, the Great War, which killed about: 8.500.000, would have meant‘ an expenditure of only $170,000 all told. Its actprtrl cost lrnibeen estf- |

$24,000 per deattr-Toroiito tar.

Gaelic has been added to the fairguage being taught as part of. the regular" curriculum of the works progress administration in New’ York. The scheme marks the first time that; free classes 1n the ancient tongue have been made available to the general public 1n the Unltedj States. “In e. short time the classes, have proved the most. popular of all our Indo-Gcrmanic language cours-' es,” said Mr. S. Alexander Shear of the New York board of education. Mr. Shear added that uuderi the name of “Ct-ltlc," the language was being taught in leading American universities, but. it had not hitherto been made avullablrftp the average’ person with limited economic re- sources.—(An Gatdheal, Giasgow.)

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An unclaimed suitcase was recent- ly opened by the Railway EXPFESB Agency 1n San Francisco and, among other things, it was found to contain a tightly closed c gar box with something inside which rattled when shaken. When the cover was pried off, there lay a hosned toad, apparently dead. An cXamiflfil‘ touched one of the "horns" and the creature came, to llfe. It had sur- vlverl without food, water or air at. least. since April, 1036, when the suitcase had been sent from Newton, Kan.. to Seattle, where 1t. remained for over a year without call.- Chronlcle Telegram.

The dime novel breaks into the news of our time with remarkable frequency, considering that 1t. had its day long ago and supposedly wens its way to oblivion. Every month or so B. Public 110F010’ T61010- es over acqulrlng a set. of, say, Dar- ing Dicks, and about as often some scholar rediscovers this departed form of romance and sings its pros- es, notwithstanding that literary history treats 1t with n. silence fairly snooty. The dune novel seem- cd the words worst. literature to the tight-minded censors of old, those some Mrs. Grundys who bim- neri the contaminating Mark Twain. Now it is ardently sought for in dusty attics, bought at. great ptnce by doing collectors and treasured along with its vulgar little brother, the nickel novel, and its disreput- able cousin, the brondsheet story paper. behind steel doors 1n lib- rartes-L. H. Robbins 1n The New York ‘rlmcs Magazine.

0n his 68th hlrthdayKing Christ- ian of Denmark celebrated it by opening a. railway bridge ucrxs the Storstroem Channel, between the Islands of Masncdo and Falster, a distance of two and one-half miles, the longest bridge 1n Europe; One mile and 1.749 yards are across wat- cd. The King rode across ln a train aboard which were also DEBUG Bur- gtn, British Minister of Transport, and Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. of Ger- many. Thc bridge will shorten the time between Copenhagen and Ber- ln by nearly an hour.-—St. Thomas Times-Journal.

Apparently present and future wars will hnve to be fought in the‘ satur- prosaic way~on the ground. Much of wars romance went. out with the flushing. sabres of cavalry charges. There was an attempt to revive the romance in the air ser- vice, duels in the death ftvc thou- sand feef. up. Paces," and all that. But now the highest commanding officers of the army announce that. any idea of fighting future wars in the air is just so much theory. Planes, they say cannot hold object- ives. cannot clean out; machine guw trusts or snipers, cannot fly l" 0B0 weather and are harassed too Steal- ly by anti-aircraft. guns. There E005 the last glorification, the final swag- ger of warfare-Vancouver Sun-

An Indiana man has taken out I patent. on a pie pan equipped With knobs on the flange by‘ sighting along which the pie cutter can div- ide the ple into mathmattcally equal slices. This ts the most ds- turbing mechanical device put. on the market since engineering science brought to perfection the mechanic- al bread slicer. The bread slicer served notice that the American housewife had lost the strength and skill required to out. the loaf tn ac- cordance with the wlrms of the family-n thick slice for Blll, a lace handkerchief slice for Emma. a medium slice for Uncle Joe-and that freeman must accept. the standardized slice. The Hooster-‘e pie plate menus another invasion of freedom of choice at table, a fresh

rvvstemlaatlou of gustatory delights,

a new dlctntorshp nbhorrmt to nll the children of Iibertyn-New York Bun. -

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quot-ion If Charlottetown Guardian lee: lot neeenariiy udoroo ti: opinion el eerlwpllllelll.

y THE MiDNiTB TRAIN

sin-Of all the sounds that. reach our ears along the road of life, there ls none so touching as the scream of the engine whistle as the fast express ploughs through the night. The sound wtli- sink down into your memory, and

touch your very heart strings“

bringing you memories of the pest. memories of those who one day left on that train for distant lands, perhaps never to return; memories of horrible accidents that: claimed the lives of friends and others who were strangers to you. There ls always a sod note to that. engine whistle at night. If you are travelling, the whistle as the englneman sounds a warrdng at every crossing will be o sad reminder of someone left behind.

How few there are when travel- ling stop for a moment to-thlnk of the one who pulls the Whistle rope to sound that wamlngl How few who reflect that the man who ls tn charge of that. great. tron monster holds their lives 1n his hands! Have you ever stopped at some crossing to watch that fast express fly by and see the engin- eer.‘ His eyes are glued to the rail ahead; his left hand frozen totlre throttle. while his right rests only inches from the brake lever, ever ready to grasp that handle in emergency. Every few minutes he reaches for the whistle rope to ysend out. a wamlng to man and benst. And sad 1t seems, man tn his rush will often ignore that

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How many times have these en- gineers seen large basses crowded with happy. laughing school chil- dren, dash onto the crossing and crushed to death beneath those grinding wheels; wheels that grind to a stop with brakes clamped solid. True the englneman did his utmost to stop, but hundreds of tmrs behind take time to stop.

How many lives could be saved 1f only bus, truck and car drivers would stop at. every railway cross- lng for one quarter minute! Did you ever stop to think of the train travelling on its own private way, always on the some course, yet people will step right into its path. So I say let us all resolve today to slop at every railway crossing long enough to see that. all is clear, and listen tonight to the scream of that engine whistle and again tomorrow night, and get to understand its meaning.

Think of the one whose hand ts grasping the throttle. He Ls the one who ls always praying that no one will plunge onto the crass- tng as he drives that; mldnlte fly- er through the night at furious speed to be on time.

I am. Sir, etc. WALTER. A; O'BRIEN. Bristol, P. 11.7.1.

' RANDOM CRITICISMS

Slr,—Almost daily we read ln the Patriot letters, and sometimes editorials that. in the vulgar por- lance muy be characterized as the most consumate of R-O-T..