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“The Strongest Memory is Weaker: Thin the Weakest Ink.”

'ritcnsriav,_yt'iiy_ 29. 1943

Mr. King's 0f Ffllilh 1,, hi, pi-niuu ziuiiin<t the tuiietidtttctit of the B.I\‘..\. _\ct without 1hr itirniitl consent of each of the niin- prtiiinci-s .\lr. lJiiplessis, Quebec Op- Iilhililill Icztih-i- dccl. ‘ :1 precedent had been crczitcil, 111111 in 111;; vi common law sticli liflgqylltllls \\£'I't_' \tr_v dziiigcrutis, and it should n]... h- rt" tiulwi-t-tl tli the llritish constitution HT oi HlTgCLlL 'i‘hc provinces had n,“ pic-ii giilptlllicll 11> _ ds this change in the ciiintiiiiiiiin. and .~ii1t"c (tmfederatiou had bu“ a putt -»1' honor between the two major races, l“.'i\\\'€'ll 1111-11 iii honui‘ it 1201110 1101 be d-mnpyrl tiiihiiiit the con-cut of all the contract- ing p:1r1ii-~_ .\lt-u of homir ciitilil not make SUCH ChQHQ-Q) “ij-jiiim ;(_(t".'t'I1‘.\‘llL of tl1e parties.

\\ ha l happiiicil since the speech fromnthe '1‘1~H~..m- Mid h-tzi (lt‘ll\t'l't'kl to liilll-(tbhif. blfig change l1i\ ittintl? .>\t that time conditions were much \\'\'I'\:‘ than they are today, when victory is coming our \\:1‘v.

"This iiiiiitt-r dues not affect the province 0i Query“ UHF-K,” said .\Ir, lhiplessis, "it is a mat’- ttr of all the provinces, especially of the Mari- times. Tiodztv it is our turn, tomorrow it will be the mm 'Of annihcr province, or provinces to stiffer. \\'l1cn (Quebec asks that its autonomy be respected, (Quebec is claiming this not only for itself but for all the provinces.

“In the Mziritimcs are three provinces, though the combined area is less than half that 0f Que- bec, and the combined population less than that of Montreal. Just try to have those three pro- vinces merged into one. When Saskatchewan and Alberta were created, they were each created n. separate province. Saskatchewan was not made a part 0f Manitoba nor Alberta a part of Bri- tish Columbia. Who would think now of merg- ing into one province!"

“The rights of minorities know r10 boun- daries," continued Mr. Duplessis, “nor was it n question of race or creed.

“At n time when we are fighting for the rights of minorities we do not \vant to give the im- pression that Hitler, that man without a word 0f honor, without any respect for treaties, is being imitated. The best way to encourage a man to be bad is to imitate him."

New Car

The Moncton Transcript (Liberal) has this 00 say about the new car ferry plans:

"New Brunswick as well as Prince Edward Island is deeply concerned over the means of communication between the two provinces. The interests of the two are closely related and the need for adequate provision for transportation of freight and pflS<CilgCfS is deeply impressed upon all who have business to do with or ac- casion to visit the island province. Consequent- ly, the announcement of further details of plans for the construction of a new car ferry was re- ceived in this province with interest and gratifi- cation second only to the similar reaction in Prince litlivartl island.

“Thorough search having failed to locate any other car ferry suitable as a substitute for the lost Chariottctmvii, Transport Minister Michaud says that pftllliilllilfy designs for a new ferry have been prepared. 'l‘he new ferry, he said, would be the best that could be designed and outstanding experts were working 0n it.

“Althvugh 1i iuimcl under the Northumber- laud Sirziit 11111111! lii- lllt- ideal solution of the problem of niziiiiiziiiiiiig iiniiiterriiptcrl communi- cation ht-tivtvii Xctv liruiisiviclt and Prince Fd- ward lslziiiii. rhrii i~ stunt-thing for the more dis- faut- iiitiiiz; Klniiiiihih‘, fur those. interested in ii1tr_i11'i»\i11:i:1i ii-iiiiii. thi: wait until the new but; c1111 l?!‘ t-iiiiiplczvrl, iiiiiii the end of i945 at the earliest, will he long ciitiugh."

'l'ha11k.< to Iilt‘ ~dl('II<‘l' 41f illli‘ elected representa-

Ferry Plans

...._Li.\.L's.lll ill." lilllldf 111' e-iiiimniis ihc general i111-

prcs-itiii pri-v.'t1l~ 111:1‘. th:~ dz-lay is acquiesced in by thc pctipli- of this l‘ruv1i1c<' The rcsoltltioit of our l. lzitiirc, iirgiiigdhiit an immediate start be lilllllt‘ ~11 coii~ti'iictioii, has been side- tracked and if it \\1'I'L' not for .\Tr. J- R. Mac- Niclll, a l‘1'<igi'<-~~ii<- LV-ii-trvzitive member for Toronto \\ll11 has ]1l'11\'lli :1 guild friend to this Prui llitt‘ i111 1'Ill('1'4 t't'.'|\i1‘i]~ [is ivcll, nntlting would haw l.‘l‘.’|i lIt‘-'ll'(l illilllli will‘ car ferry plans at all in this lllllt‘. .\i'li\\‘illi~léllifliiig the Transport hiinisii-ifls :1<~ii1" ict thztt the plims were ready, whru .\lr. .\Ii1<~.\‘ici1l asltvil ti» sec them he was fobbctl off with ~i»1uc excuse. livitk-iitly they are not rc:iil_v-~-ai1d cvcii if they were, as a cor- rr-snnuilcut in yesterday's (itiartlian remarked-— that w d still lll‘ a long ivziy frnin the news we. are w ng Mr, iittmelv, that the keel of the steamer is heing laid.

Trio Spuds

i'n the Unir-tl Slrtliw. :icciirtling to an exchange. potfitri-s arc :1 ilriiiy on ilic mark-ct, cspct-iztllvfln New York 11nd virinity. i

hlllrltctfi only :1 fi-iv \\(‘l'l(\’ “L”, as 1pm- 0f 1,... tutors as hit-flier lliihliairdl cupboard nnw are so ovcrstnclml that lillll'\.w [he glut can be reliev- Qfl ill?" i‘ da1>c<-i' of hi-:1\_v lvssrs from spoilage Buell F- Blabcii, regional administrator for the

=___ Food Distribution Administration, ha: paued the word along through regional administrators to farmers that they have nothing to lone and something to gain by making lure that potatoes

' are fully matured before they are dug.

The situation is particularly serious in New Jersey where, according to Federal-State statis- ticians, this crop has been increased from 50,000 to 71,000 acres with a prospective yield this year of 12,500,000 bushels compared to 10,000,000 in i942. With the supply of seasonal labor un- certain, farmers are reluctant not to dig as soon as possible.

Familiar with the way farmers in the past have broken prices by rushing early potatoes into the markets, Dr. W. H. Martin, director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion, says government guarantees will maintain prices this year but warns that in a glutted mar- ket the vegetables will rot.

— EDITORIAL NOTES .-

RQVCIIUQ Minister Gibson informed the House prior to rising that he was informed some of the brewers are unable t0 fill their quota of beer

owing t0 a shortage of manpower.

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Air mail poundage carried by Trans-Canada Air Lines last year was 2,308,812, with the esti- mated total bearing Canadian postage and ori- ginating in Canada placed at 1,771,971 The estimated revenue at $2 a pound was $3.543.944 and the estimated rofit on operations $321,573. The first five mont s of 1943 showed a profit of

$583,514.

t l1 I n Robert Barry Dickey, one 0f the Fathers 0f Confederation, of Amherst, N.S-._died this $1M i903; from i858 to 1867 he sat in the Legisla-

tive Council of Nova Scotia and was the of- ficial delegate to the Quebec Conference in I864? he declined to subscribe to the resolutions of the conference, but in i866 he supported Con- federation; after the adoption of Confederation, he was appointed to the Senate, and gave gen- eral support t0 Sir John A. Macd0nald's policies; after his elevation he played only a smalbpart in politics in his province 0r in the 1301111111011 field, dying at the good old age of eighty-two. a n- a-

Law's delays are proverbial, and a case in point is the criminal prosecution of those al- legedly responsible for the disastrous Cocoanut Grove Fire in Boston on November 28 last when 492 lives, including those of several Canadians were lost. A Superior Court jury has just con- victed Samuel Rudnick, a contractor, of c011- spiracy to violate Boston building laws in con- nection with thc fire. The jury acquitted three others, including James Welansky, a brother o1 Barnet Welansky, owner of the club. Barnet now is serving a long prison sentence for manslaugh- ter. as a result of the fire. Sentence was not im- oosed immediately-

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Reading 0f party conventions attended by no

more than two hundred 0r three hundred peoplr:

in Ontario ridiugs where there are several thousand voters, the Ottawa Journal is disturb- ed. We are not so sure, however, that what 1S

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Wo nod thnt lilo cloth unveil from men's trouser cuff; would oer. pet o broad path from ‘Domnto to Windsor. So that i4 what they are

.___. In the for north of’ the Bullion from. reindeer are hauling bombs. gnsoiene and other supplies to the erodromcs 80 than 1| g, 5on0;

a . Claus. —St. Ilwmu Times-Journal.

If some of than follows who day or two on a raft in the North Atlantic, they would not consider their present lot, disabilities. such on unhlwy one,- Vaneouver Province.

When Dcmobllflnlio

in Olnadn it.

will he 2.000,

armed forces or engaged m wnr m. duatry or war services. M this mo. ment there are 000.000 1n wu- in. Quarry (of which at lust 7110.000 are women) and M900 in o armed forces (including 25,000 W0. men). These Mair um sure w in- crease steadily u the months go by;

. So t to that many Canadians will find their wwblf/lvm 817110 the moment D- Dfly BIT-We! is not an exaggeration. -Ottawii Citizen.

The younger generation of Ilycrn 610111611 by this war contains many who are enthusiastic as Igor Sikor- sky about. the post-war possibilities of the helicopter as s, family car of the air, which could do mtwh to stop the concentration of living in overcrowded cities. The beauty of the helicopter for local commuting. shorrdfstance vacation and similar purposes is that it would not n- qufre a complete rebuilding of ex- isting communities to providg scores of hundreds of big airports, Some development of the principle may well be to the plane aile what the Ford car ha: been to the motor sic. —Chica80 lDa-ily News.

0f the 4.500.000 soldiers ln the Revolutionary and Napoleonic arm- ies from 1792 t0 1815 about 2.500,- 000 died in hospitals and 100.000 were killed in action. says Waldemar Knempffert 1n The American Mercury. In the Crimean war - 250 Frenchmen were killed and 59.- 815 died of sickness. In our Civil War the Union forces 10st 07.068 0n the battlefield. 48,012 who died 0f wounds and 224.586 who succumbed to disease. Until World War I in- fections were always deadlier than bullets. Today disease is under c0n_ trol and surgeons reguard the sp- pearance of infection in soldiers on whctn they have operated as little short of a disgrace. -Exchamze.

Since December 7. i941, day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the reading of newspaper editorials has increas- ed by more than 75 per cent among men and 50 percent among women. Jbm-es R mLiitichlen, of the Bureau of Advertising of the Am. erlcan Newspaper Publishers Asso- ciation tqld the advertising group of the Special Libraries Association. Institutional and inspirational ad- vertisements relatingto the war ef- fort are more widely read than the best. product-selling advertisements. Mr. McLauchlcn said 1n citing other changes in newspaper reading habits since Pearl Harbor. At the close of 1942 he added. 37,000,000 families

said to be, happening in Ontario, comments the Gazette, is exceptional in that province or that it implies necessarily a flaccid democracy. The probability is that when the 4th of August comes around the Ontario polling booths will be very active centres. It is quite possible that the people have already made up their minds as t0 what they intend t0 do on that day- n u n- n-

It is not customary for the general public here tn consider civil servants overworked and utt- derpaid, but in the opinion of Mr. Angus Mac- Inriis. M.P., the Government should set up some agency to deal with_._the problems 0f low salaries

Michaiidls estimates were before the House; and again when Postmaster General Mulock was putting through his estimates, the Vancouver member attacked Civil Service administration on the ground of the regulations governing per- manent appointments being too rigid- It scents the classifications are too stiff a hurdle t0 jump, and officials become restless in being kept too long without antici ted increases by moving from one classification to another. u a o o

Are the Irish u a whole any more be- hind de Valera than the Italians were behind Mus- solini? In the current issue of the Quarterly Review, Lord Gorell reviewing the war situa-

were cbnnize .

buying newspapers. -Ex.

0f the 30,000 books published dur- lmz the war by Soviet publishing houses, 2.003 were written by Red Army commanders and men. Among the nufliors is Hero 0f the Soviet Union Pavel Pesko, a fiyer who has made Z37 operational flights and shot down 33 German planes. Peskov wears three decorations, and is par. tfcularly famed for an =1 gageme In wnlcii ffve Soviet fighters fought and routed 30 German planes. ‘This Operation earned the gallant fiyer the title of Hero of the Soviet Un-

and the working conditions 0f the Civil Scryice._l1§a His suggestion came when Transport Minister I 515112 George of lmfllfigdlYlfh gs

fon. Another author is Scout Ser- nt Grfgoi-i Kolossov. of the Sov. marines, recently decorated by

tinmilshed Service sides books on the war. Red Army commanders and men have written volumes of short stories. novels and verse.—U. S. S. R. Bulletin.

Even u hr hock u the only history of northern Europe flu strange and unusual-migrations of the lemmings attracted attention. A1. intervals over a period of years they increase greatly In '- food and weather conditions being favorable. Then it rellnieu ur tn to seizes great mulfltudpa. I114 0U’ "My 80- 111180 armies mov- ing in the some dfreotio . On grid on they travel, swfmmin gtroamn and lakes in their path, continuing the march no matter what the 0b- staclea. Perslstently they

tion illustrates ii-‘qit we mean as follows: Let

worse for being both true and Irish. There was a day when one of our service flying-boats was forced for lack of petrol to make a forced‘ landing in the sea in the vicinity of one 0f the

ports of Southern Ireland- Dolefully the crew

faced the fact that they would be due for in-_ tcrnrneut as the harbour-master put out to in-; vestigate; but his question was "how much‘ petrol d‘_voii want?" Surprised, the commander answered, "Why d'y0u ask? Aren't you sup- posed to be neutral?" “Faith," replied the har- botir-mzister, laughing, "We know which side

we're neutral on!" So says the world, and so will it say down all the corridors of Time. - n- v

A recent issue of the Egg and Poultry Mar- ket Report issued by the Dominion Department of Agriculture states that next fall will be a real test of the ability of Canadian egg producers to meet consumer demand- With current whole- sale prices at Vancouver and Halifax within seven cents of the ceiling price and Montreal eight cents, Canadians continue to eat more eggs than ever before. Consumer demand normal- ly falls off in the middle of October and No-

us end, as the British always like to do both t?“ um“ bean‘ immlvel- ‘"10"

when it is suitable and when it is the reverse,’ on a note of humour, and let it be none the-

"1911 Purpose. thoush no one oven

heir destination. or the reason for the headlong stampede. Sometimes these migrations wear themgelvgg out and disappear for countless numbers of the little travellers OWWII. die bf dise time to m they and in disaster only when the orirushing hordes reach the sea, plunge in and swim until they m. come exhausted and perish. - Oui- Dumb Animals.

Eight i;

yurs no th department reported the discovery by Dr. some- Gyorgl of szeged, m; l-y, "m; vitamin C, in which the cit: fruits are especially rich, has no effect on scurvy unless it accompanied by an unknown factor which he called vitamin P, says The New York Times. This "P" reduces the frsgn. ity of the capillaries. Unless it f: present the capillary walls burst and bleeding flows. English,

man and other scientists were un. able t0 confirm the existence of vitamin P in animal experlmenflg, Belief in it gave way to incrcdul.

lty- Mom recent work done in Soot.- °

11nd by Dr. Scarborough, Dr, zucho of Denmark and the Glaxo l-iflbflmiorles 0f London have con- "lmed BRIE-Gym!!! original find- inkl The Royal I burizh has shown that the citrus fruits do contain somethin which strengthens the cavlllary wa is. The

Glaxo Laboratorle ave shown bow

vemher when storage eggs come on the market and higher prices prevail. "This year there are

11o storage eggs, and, with greater purchasing l’"\""1'i llilihfr quality, and price not a restrain- hjl-Z factor, constimer demand is likely to enn- tiniic to an unusual degree. Producers are faced ' with the problem of providing the biggest pos-i sible volunieggfjgugggs, .n_ . . . .. .. l

vitain P activity an be 555935941, But what is vitamin P? There ls no answeié because it has not yet been

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strike over trlfieo had to spend n. a

even under its m’

New Brunswick And The B. N. A. Act

1k. A. P. Patterson, Saint John.

NB. is the outstand-

lun authorities on the British

North America Act, wrfm npro a torlni in Tho

the ed! Gnu on "Hands Off the DNA. Act." Ho uyn: . .

I Such n veil of m story hu been (deliberate , I tieiieve) drown 0v _ natitutfon of Canada. and a0 much untrue propaganda ted rupoctin it,

ink that "the Con- ars" only h America fath- gy Mlcdonuld 0f er of Quebec. bulb low or foundation of ‘Cénodrin popstitutlon is - - v on hl$°wu nrr b ates of ovn. Scotla, i lower Canada (G

on, without any 1'6- Drftinh vern- ,ment presenb- pper Cana n and Lower Canada. acted as separate pro_ u. Those delegates hnd nli the power necessary to agreement which 1n nature is l Confederation but. they make it. legally binding. nor divide tho Province of Canada int/o Que- bec and Ontario, nor provide for the Crown's connection with the oonfederative governmental arcan- izatfon, consequently thev sent the nlreement to the British govern- ment with the reqpest that legisla- tion be passed the Imperial Parliament to legs ize ft. ro~ vfde for the Crown's connec ton with it, or to "sanctlo ' it. This necessitated a {pint con- foronce of the provlncia delegates and representatives of the Bri- tish government which was held in January. I067, with Lord Cam- arvon, the Colonial Secretary, as chairman and Lord Tring as the legal drnftsman, and that Joint. conference drafted the B.N.A- Act 1867 and the Canada Railway Act 1807. The latter pertains to the Inter-colonial Railway only and is very important. _ . The status of the inter-provin- cial a reemenf, of 1866 is clearlv define in the 1937 Judgment of His Majest. ‘s Privy Council, P. 108, as "the nter-provinclal compact to which the B.N.A. Act gives ef- fect," and it. seems to me that our - ltion would be much stronger

and better understood if Can- adians were made to realize that. the initial authoritative action fs the “interproviucfal compact.“ and

in me United States and Canada]

keep to"

nfirmary of Edfn- '

,fhat the B.N.A. Act is the second ;authoritative action, w ch would make it clear that un endment requires unanimous consent-

Speaklng in Montreal in 1883,

Lord Carnarvon said i'n effect that the RNA. Act should be inter- "a treaty of alliance“; it seems to me also, that Lord Carn- arvon and Lord Tring should be in the Confederation Of course no change can be made in an Act of the British Parliament except by that. Parlia- ment, so that "safeguard" 1s the automatic result of having the inter roviiiciiil agreement. sanc- tlonc by that Parliament. Almost from the time the Con- federation ' established ltempts have been made occasion- ;aiiy to break that Imperial con- nection. In December, 1935. the Dominion invitcd the provinces to a Joint. conference without advance notice of what was to be discuss- ed and within a few minutes after the constitutional committee met. with Justice Minister LuPolnte as chairman, the provinces were ask- ed to agree to give the federal parliament the power to have the final word, 1.e.. to break the Im- perial connection; and n11 the pro- vinces expressed their willingness except New Brunswick. Conse- oueiitlv the conference adjourned t0 meet. in January 1936, but in the meantime in some of the oth- er provinces, Nova Scotia especial- ly, doubts developed and. as The Guardian States, the matter was dropped.