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_ Mgnfln‘ Dally (Founded lu 1°" Authorized as Second Class Mall. l» Department. Ottawa. a

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rtresldent. lan

Frank Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker T110" the Weakest Ink."‘

cuaruorrcrowu. FRIDAY, DECEMBER. 1e.

iio itause For Alarm

"Again," says the Ottawa Journal, "wuc sec articles declaring what is called. the_ com- mercialization" of Christmas, the distortion of a Christian festival to serve the ends of trade. We think thosc who take this position are needlessly agitated. \

"lf they mean that some people spend more money than they can afford on Preietlli ill Christmas time it is true, of 601158-03 "° “"51 some spend more than they can afford 011 birthdays. Nor do all people spend Wlllll" I'll?" means, or spend to 9W4 PWIW", Pelwee“ °"° December and the next.

u" they are blaming the merchants for making their displays of goods so attractive thlat money is lured frorrr l'l1¢ Poqlifl! 0f the pubis that is absurd. It is the P1lYll°9°r “d mdhee almost the duty, of a seller oi 90°45 1° 5 °“ them to the best possible advontage—and no- body is backed into a corner and told he 1111151

bu)" "But the great fact is that Christmas is es- sentially a children's festival, and the Cllllflle" can't be "commercialized." The cost of thin9§ does not enter into their minds. A yourigglef writes Santa Claus for a P°"Y "d ‘ml’ m‘ '3 "fxrly happy with a doll and a box of croY' pns or a pair of skates, arid 11 l1°¢l<=Y tlldl- F“ Caiiadian children Christmas is the big ddY °l the year and more than their presents go to make it 'such—-the lighted tree, the t1{"k'-‘Y, llle f tive atmaspltt-‘I’! PQYIWP‘ 111° '°"'"°" l" a “rt red family-rind fortunately there is noth- rhose who view with chronic alarm can do to

spoil it for them."

War Pensions

The mounting responsibilities of the C011- adian Pension Commission on behalf of Zhlorld War ll veterans and their dependents are 011/11 in a review of the Commission's operutwlli ll)‘ ‘tli chairman Brigadier J. L. Melville, C-B-E- Tiroo total nuinber of awards in PllYmelll l“ World ll a‘: IIOIW hsubstpgidtially more than those for World ar , e no h.

"An analysis of the figures ‘for lzftllvf/tiis affords some interestlllg ¢°"‘P°"‘°"" "9"- dier Melville says. "Within the 12-month per- iod from August 31, 1946, to the same dgti: year the decrease in numbers of 99mm" l b n in rho liability for World War i_has hnot ee great. At the begllllllllfl °1 ll" 9w“! Lierenzj: 83A§8 awards I11 P°Ymenll H; l” 31am” liability being $36,881,377. On diigiia: Glmuai there were 86é960glsipesiggioliiers an e lwbflbhit ‘ill: ligiires'for'World War ll are con- siderably different, recording an increase_ of practically _50 per cent in the numbe}: ofs 0:129:12: m. disability and dependent, over r e ii momlllOrlilellkoiilgust 31, 1946, there we‘re|t'_>6,57¢ awards in payment and an annual liability o 3926996039 for World War ll veterans and their d 'nde'nts" the Pension Commission head said "recur later the number of pensioners had in- crcaised ta 97,729 and the annual liability to $35,- 136,407." .

The average age of the pensioner of World War I is 59, while for World War ll the average ggg is 34. It is interesting to note this differeltw in average age of 25 years is ezéacktly ‘the ilalmse as that between the outbreak a t e Wlctrsubil:

Brigadier Melvrlledsatys the fiyéllieslgzf {Norm - - ' ensio Wurilelrisiisonsalaeérad nfgrzrhiy? llhiie World War ll disability pensions average $14-34-

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Big Engineering Feat

The story of one of the greatest feats of gngingeylng science_is graphically tpLd in Canadian Geographical Mdqulme- e “Rf q describes the harnessing of the Sagiieflfll ['9 in Quebec for the purpose of manufacturintg aluminum which now forms one of Canadas roatost industries. lt is based upon bauxite, g olite and petroleum cokB, llll Wl-Wlllcl‘ mo‘ tdiials are imported, but requiring for conversion into this metal which is in such general use to- day the hydro-electric power in the quantity that only such a miglilty river as the Sagucnay colllfil b. "'19:: biitiscllspdescribes the 1on9 "I'd ‘film's - - ' lume

study given by engineers to that raging Y_0 _ of water contained in the 30 mile 9W9‘ “lhfls drop in that distance of 330 feet to_ determine how it might be harnessed. Some decided _it v50: impossible. Others, however refused to retire e- feated by that terrific current which swept away material as fast as it was drvPPed 1"" l“ bed‘ Th; feat was accomplished by building concrete darns on end by the side of the river, with 011B side mode to conform to the contours of the bed, nd then by overturning the columns in the de- aired direction. In this manner, ll" "l" ‘"5 diverted into the flumes to make contact with

A. Burnett; vice-Preswent. W11} ll- gm-Mgg; Qgcyg-Tregl, G. M. Burnc;.; Editor and Managing Director, J. R. Burnett; Associate Editor, , _ _ l y Increased prices for our exports to lr-tain will not benefit the farmer if, as a consequeri u, the United Kingdom is forced to reduce her vol- ume of purchase or turn to other sources of sup-

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There is apparent inaction in civic politics o far as February election is concerned. But lt ay be a case of still water running deep in tilil

interests of sitting members.

PlY-

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might go.

I I i I proved a recommendation Committee to make public parks

organized games. I I I I

Christmas holiday

thoughts of study.

ment house.

and service expenses.

arena

Baron Rayleigh, eminent

future. no more worlds to conque ." I I

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time Prices and Trade Board.

inary functions of government.

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our. butter.

protective measures.

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expedition for discovery of the Passage in 1818, and commanded

ernment's $20,000 reward. and subsequently governor of pital.

in Narrative of Pole.

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sanctum! How it makes our pulse throb! How it makes our heart dance!

w w w it

the churches and to the state.

their feelings.

s. Toda in the valley of tllfi mughgtfflflzrrmeriy peoypled by farmers and log- gers, has sprung up the splendidly laid out CjlY of Arvida with a population of 10,000.‘ wTllllwlll- dustry has been created in an area _ 1111 t! north of Quebec-and all because i_n it was. con- Nyn“ q rim- capabie of generating sufficient hydro-electric energy to convert raw materials brought from South America, Greenland and

Toiios into 700,000,000 pounds of aluminum per F":

QcDimiiiAL more: ‘-

by the

Christmas" rings a little hollow. examinations being held in January this your yulctide festivities will be marred by at least

successful expedition in 1819, winning the Gov- He undertook three other expeditions, and then was appointed con- troller of the steam department of the Navy, Greenwich Hos- Parry’: Sound is named after him. 1828 he published the story of his experiences an Attempt to Reach the‘ North

How dear to the heart is the steady subscriber, Who pays in advance at the birth of each year; Who lays down the money and does it quite gladly, And casts round the office a halo of cheer. He never says, "Stop it: I cannot afford it; l'm getting more papers than now I can read;" But always says, "Send it: our people all like it: In fact, we all think it a help and a need." How welcome his cheque when it reaches our

We outwardly thank him; we inwardly bless him— The steady subscriber who pays in advance.

In our day we deplore the prevailing atti- tude of neutral indifference of the individual to Sometimes we imagine we have fallen upon evil times, and that in earlier days people were more alert and more willing to face unpleasant facts. But here is an item quoted in a Toronto contemporary. Read- ers should carefully read it and consider if it does not describe the attitude of many people in our day. "We know well enough that there are some people who look for nothing in the news- papers but who.‘ is called ‘interesting news’; by which definition hey mean to exclude everything which is likely to offend their taste or grate upon if they had the management of the Press, no tale of suffering would ever speed beyond tho _scene of its occurrence—no ‘death by starvation’ should shock men's Poor Law persecution worry their patience-all that mars the fictitious harmonytaf the social world should be if not wholly unknown at least unpublished-everything that tends to disclose the hideous ulcers which fester underneath the mask of civilizatiorf; everything revoitingly true and painfully reproachfuL-would, auspices, be excluded from the public eye and the public mind. We think for differently from this. We hold that every fact which bears upon the social condition of our population-which il- lustrates their sufferings, or gives testimony to thsir ill treatment-is worth columns of political gossip of party tactics." Having read this could anyone guess its date? One might almost sup- pose it was taken from some current newspaper. it was printed one hundred yours ago iii The Times, London.

Moslem calls for a jihad or holy war seem grotesquely out of place in this day and age, but if a "Mahdi" should make an appearance there is no telling to what lengths the Arabs

Aberdeen (Scotland) Town Council have op-

Education und phying through college and qualified for fields available to children on Sundays for self-

Prince of Wales College students start their

Montreal hos a project that is unique in this country at least. It is a co-operative apart- Dwellers, instead of renting, will buy their apartments over a period of years and thereafter pay only their share of maintenance

British scientist who died recently at the age of 72, defended science against the charges that it had proved indifferent to the evil consequences of scien- tific discoveries. He held great‘ hope for the "l am not afraid that our successors will be able to complain that we have left them

Ottawa is looking for alternative names for such bodies as Wartime Housing Ltd. and War- lt would be a good thing if the word "Wartime" were retnined to remind everyone that the organizations and policies concerned are designed to meet emergency and should not be regarded as ord-

The International Agreement at Geneva in- sists that there must be no "prohibition" of the importation of margarine in competition with Very well, then, let Partiament in- sist upon the imposition of a tariff which will not make it worth while to send it here. Likewise let the Government adhere to the law which makes it illegal to manufacture margarine for sale here. Our basic industry necessitates such

Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer, Admiral and author, born this date 1790; he accompanied Captain John Ron's first North-West

the second

minds-no

under their

-iletss ly ‘its thy-

Univeruitieo in Waotiorn have decided to prohibl co-ed beauty contests. As the winner last year eloped soon after. per- haps the university presidents are inclined to think of successful contestants are beautiful but dumb. 0r perhaps they prefer brains rather than beauty and rwlgh m promote culture as apart from

He wam to physical culture - Windsor Star. 5

Staining the

A Scottish clergyman, the Bev. Dr. Peter Marshall, of the Pres- byterian Church in New York Av-

be appointed Chaplain tn the U. B. Senate. Dr. Marshall worked as a young men tn Stewart dz Uoydis foundry in mstibrldge. Ebnlsrstlng to America, lie worked hLs way

the ministry. - Edinburgh Scots- man.

It seems that a commend and unusually harmless oversight was

and ran out. of gas in mldalr. This occurrence bears out, the recent, sinturrierrt of an aircraft com- pany executive (not with the firm that, made the flying auto) that,

“We can make airplanes fool-proof, Mfickltsflll"

Recent reference appeared this column to a successful operat- ion for strangslaterl hernia per- formed in the {year 1834 by a “Mr. i on a resident of St. '

us!‘ missox

the island, salty tide

His slender legs unimovlng.

Young and alone he learned

How brave la man and how un- loving.

Old Charlottetown

. respouslbl f t. . . l°d°Y bill the" _"M."Y first, expeiilmceiiitalleflsfggsh ritual-iii? ‘u.’ l L) Their term bile. The pilot, just forgot w ollOck -—- his fuel before a, second take-off. m‘ MACKIESO“

ITHE GUARDIAISTLNCHARLOIITETOWN’;

Here on this beach at. t-tie foot of the jogged rooka, young fawn died. Shot by a. wamton hunter;

with the shy red blood of wildness. Here tie fell. brought to hls knees By the gathering dark, His bitter requiem the breaking

enue, Washington, has the dlsttnc- Autumn “a; U011 o! belris the first minister Here he lies with his dark eyes born outside the United states to wide on death.

—Flrances Frost, in the New You-k Herald Tribune.

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but we can't make them damn- fool-iproof." In a civilization in

faster, more mechanized, more comfortable, and, at, the sums time, more deadly and dangerous, that remark doesn't need to be llrriited to the field of aviation.- Calgary Albertan.

The Fredericton Chamber of Commerce attributes a falling-off in the number of tourists visiting the New Brunswick capital this year to road construction work on the 8t. Stephen highway. On the climber‘: agenda for attention are parking lots for- the convenience of tourists and the provision of attractive public comfort stations. —Amherst News and Sentinel.

Indlilyoarlifeisnsuchlikoa. great deal else in this world. It's the wriv you cio is. rsuier than the fact, itself, which catches other mortals’ interest. The perils of the 9°‘ l" In lee-old awry. Man‘: Wflquest of the air ls relatively new and sensational. That is why the story of how 13 died when a fog-plagued airplane hit an Alas- kan mountain made the first pages, while editors gave comparatively obscure space to the deaths of 45 NOD10 when a lhlp piled up at, a» bout the some time on Alaska's coast. Actually, vessel and plgng are alike in being only incidental to the main fact -whleh is that for s11 his ingenuity man remains u frail and futile creature when he lneanfromted by Nature's ele- ments grown angry. - Detroit l-‘ree Press.

Canada has nae laws govern- ing Sunday observance. They are not “blue laws"_ as sundarreglt lotions have sometimes been called. The laws are designed to ensure that as far as possible, workmen will not. be compelled to follow their ordinary invocations seven days a week. The plea for a wide- orpen Sunday is always based on the need for recreation, entertain- ment and amusement. Ii: sounds very plausible. Tlhe act. however, does not. forbid these, but lt does forbid commercializing sport and entertainment. It is patent to ev- erybody that in commercialized sport and entertainment the yrs- flt, motive rather than the snort itself becomes the dominant driv- ing force and every known de- vice ls pressed into service to bring more money lnto the coffers of the promoters. We llve in a. noisy, raucous, nerve-racking civi- lization. More than ever we need 0nc~day in seven when we can secure some semblance of quiet and peace. - United Church Oli- server.

Lust May the English Electric Company shipped to the British Columbia Electric Railway the big- gest, transformer ever made in Canada. says The St. Catharlnes standard. Having been in opera- t.lon for some time, the official report is that the transformer has done the Job for which it, was de- signed. Its duplicate ls now on its way to Vancouver, 225 0011B, and resting on three flat cars. If en- gineering design and fabrication by highly skilled workmen under ex- pert, supervision were problems in production, hardly any less is that of transportation over 3,000 miles, including loadlngzand unloadl lg. The big machine takes 34 hy 29 feet of floor space, and it ls I00 percent misde-in-St. Catharlnes. Iii makfflg an appraisal of this giant transformer, the meaning of the phrases "heavy industry" and "cap- ital goods" bmome much more clear. The statement from the com pony of the actual number of work hours on that machine would be highly informative.

In the field of human endeavor a train porter has a humble role. He la the fellow who makes up the berths at night and gets his pay partly in tips. He is the servant of the traveling public. Yet a por- ter can be a gentleman and do his job with dignity. A correspondent recently told us of a porter who served him on a recent overnight ride. His menial tasks were per- formed with tlie air of the perfect host. summoned by a bell he was courtesy personified. There was a dash of gallantry fn the way ,ne fixed the ladder to the upper berth. Even when he accepted the tip the transfer was as men to man. Porters and their kind are too often taken for granted. It Li they who put the little touches of

comfort In travel. It l! they who a

which science is making life evsr

Peter's Bay; this being "the third instance in which the above oper- ation has been performed ln this

The Mackleson referred to was Dr. John Macklesan. a native of the parish of Campsle, in Stirling- shlre, Scotland, and graduate of the Medical and Surg‘ :al Pharmacy of Glasgow. He removed to Liver- pool. England. where he met one John McGregor. whose interest in Prince Edward Island induced lilm to come to Charlottetown. Leavlni: UVPTPQOl on Oct, 10, IP21. he took passage in the brig "Relief", Capt Dodd, with several other passen- gers including Capt. James M. Campbell. of Bedeque. 0n arrival here, (Nov. l5 of that year) he began a professional career which ended only with his demise on the 27th of August. 1885. He married Matilda Bracken, youngest daught- el‘ aif the Hon. Ralph Bracken. merchant», who predeceased lilrn in 8'17

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Dr. Macldeson held several pol- itlons of trust and honor and was an active member and supporter of St. James Kirk, and an elder for nearly sixty years. He was appointed surgeon general of the mdlltig forces 1n 1848. following the

(The utter-Review) In Canada. there la extreme eon- fuslon, It becomes increasingly apparent that the austerity pro- gram was not the product of any

tisrice by the Government ofuriy formal revision of its intention to move steadily in the direction of the removal of controls. It was nObhlng but a rather panicky col- lection of cxpedlcrits. made urgent- ly necessary by the logic of events. Ottawa. despite any stories to the contrary did not wake up to the fact, that the position was critical, until long after it had become too late ,to sit: down and make carc- ful plans. The Santa Claus theory, that. the United States would take care or! us with no effect on our own part. was quite deeply en- gralned in official thinking, and it was only after various conferences at Washington had exploded this idea that there was a rush to find emergency solutions.

The Government of Canada ls open to the severest crltlclsm for its entire failure to realize that their are only two possible alter- natives.

One is to move steadily back to economic liberty‘. Accepting this as 1 basis of internal policy, the Government faileil to understand that we cannot havi- internal liber- ty In countries which tradi- with ear-h other. as lonrz as trnrlc be- tween notions ls ln the shackles of a planned economy. If there is to be liberty in Canada. there has to he freedom of Canadian trade with other countries.

The othr-r alternative ls to as- sume that international commerce has to be kept under the rigidities imposed by managed currency. foreign exchange control. tiic In- ternational Monetary Fund. and all the apparatus intended to dodge the necessity of going back to the use of common currency, such as gold and taking any unpleasant consequences which may result. This alternative. of course. as we now have discovered. requires the imposition of complete and perman- ent methods or a totalitarian state in internal affairs.

Canada. quite obviously. cannot alone undertake the restoration a! the gold standard. and the des- truction of all the ingenious de-

Island, and by the some operator."

careful planning. or of the ACCCp-z