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Jail Labour

The presentation of the Grand Jury should be given effect to that instead of keeping the prisoners of the Prince County Jail in idleness, a system of daily labour be instituted. Similar activity should, indeed, be arranged for all prisoners under Pro- vincial jurisdiction.

There can be few punishments less cal- culated to produce the habits and attitudes of honest work than confinement for a pe- tiod of months with little to do but wait for time to pass. It is impractical, prob- ably, to try to do much in the way of teach- ing trades in the short periods generally. spent in the common jail but at least the habit of work can be preserved.

The number of repeaters serving jail sentences and being sent to penitentiary after a record of minor convictions is a blot on our system of criminal justice.

Offenders themselves are aware of the dangers to which the system exposes them and it is not unknown for a convicted man to ask for a longer sentence in order that it may be served in a Federal institution so that his chances of going straight after release may be improved.

Balloons For Politicians

Remember the toy balloons they have for the kiddies at the circus? Dcflatcd. they aren't much to look at. A few hefty puffs and the insignificant bit of rubber blossoms forth as a gaudy bauble which catches the eye and makes the youngsters dance with delight. The trouble with in- flated balloons, as many a kiddie has dis- covered to his sorrow, is that a slight prick is enough to send them off with a bang, and the pretty sphere which a moment be- fore was wafted lightly on the breeze be- comes a useless unattractive bit of rubber. Then the fun is over.

Economies, too, are dull, unattractive looking things when deflated. They are the balloons of adolescent-minded politic- ians who come along with all sorts of social security schemes for blowing them up into pretty astronomical spheres which the politicians hope will make everybody happy. Right. now official Ottawa's econ- omic balloon is blown up pretty tight. Few people in the Capital, however, trouble their heads about what. might happen if it sud- denly went off.

Ottawa's economic balloons all bear the Smhsign. The more the politicians blow them up with social security costs, the thinner the S953 sign stretches. The balloon of government today is inflated to the bursting point with five billion dollars. The money goes flying around like toy balloons at a circus, chasing goods and services sky high, and producing nothing in return.

Twenty-five per cent of the time and of- fort of the Canadian people is spent blow- ing up Ottawa economic balloons. If the same amount of time and effort were spent in producing goods, the balloons of govern- ment would deflate, prices would fall, liv- ing standards would rise, and the phoney illusion of fun and games would be replaced by the sensible realism that comes to a tired youngster when, after a nice supper, his mother tucks him up in bed.

calendar Reform

A report just released by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce brings out clearly the advantages of the proposed World Cal- endar over the present Gregorian calendar. The defects noted are striking. Schedules are not good for more than a year; there can be no simplicity in making organ- izational plans, no precision in fixing the dates of holidays or periodic meetings. Ac- curate comparison of monthly, quarterly, and yearly statistics is impossible. The setting of pay dates is confused by the fact that the same dates do not fall on the same week days. The calculation of time meas- urements prescribed by law is sometimes difficult. Bond, mortgage, lease, and other regular payments cannot be dated with as- surance that they will always fall on busi- ness days. The World Calendar would re- lieve or eliminate all these inconveniences. The views expressed by the Chamber of Commerce are shared by the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada; the Canadian Congress of Labor. and the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor. As the Canadian Manufacturers? Association has out in giving its endorsation, how-

; coir, the change would have to be simul-

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taneous in a number of countries. Canada should therefore try to have the subjecr.

Nations General Assembly.

EDI IURIAL NO I ES

Mr. Gaitskell, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, has stated that the purchasing power of ll, taking 1945 as the base, is now 165 1d in 1951.

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Enthusiasm for Festive Week continues to rise. It will not, of course, be exactly on a par with the Festival of Britain but a lot of people are going to have a time to remember. 0 I O

Twynkle, a six-year-old British goat, owned jointly by Mrs. B. Short and Miss J. Salmon, of Lustleigh, Devon, has estab- lished a world record by giving 6,518 lbs. of milk in a year.

i O I Veterans of the North Novas have many tales to tell of their adventures,

both gay and grim, and are now being urged to pass their yarns along to be in- corporated in a regimental history being prepared by Mr. Will R. Bird. 0 O 0 There was no possibility of Mr. Abbottls 25 per cent increase in the sales tax not being passed by Parliament but its being imposed since the budget was brought down April 11 is unsound in principle, though sanctioned by recent usage. it 0 W A new outlet for Island breeding stock Yorkshires should be provided by such piggeries as that in Dawson Creels B. where 1000 sows a month are expected to provide weanling pigs for United States farmers. The project will require high quality breeding stock which the Island is well able to supply. 0 O I

It would be a pity for the Board of Transport Commissioners to leave this Province after spending almost their entire stay here within the Law Courts Building. A look over the Island itself would beat out much of the testimony they have been listening to and make it considerably easier to persuade them to return.

9 O O

The Scottish l-lome Rule movement has lost rather than gained by the Stone of Scone episode. As already stated, the General Assembly of the Church of Scot- land repudiated the movement, and now Glasgow City Council has refused by 75 votes to 12 to support the Scottish Na- tional Covenant Committee in its demand for the return of the Stone of Destiny to Scotland.

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Several of the provincial premiers (says The Letter Review) declared that never- no, never-would they inflict a retail turn- over tax on consumers, but still they thought the B.N.A. Act should be amended to permit them to do so. Perhaps many people would like the seventh command- ment repealed although they intend to re- main moral. for the time being. v..

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Mohammed. the founder of Islam, died this date 632. Born at Mecca in 571. He was subject to epileptic fits and experienced cxtacies and visions. About his fortieth year he told his wife of a visit from the angel Gabriel and the first of those mes- sages which were later incorporated in the Koran. Persecution resulted in the flight to Medina in July 622 which marks the year opening the Mohammedan era as well as being the turningpoint in the prophet's career.

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M.P.'s are toying with the idea of a pension plan for M.P.'s. Under one scheme a defeated M.P. would receive an annual pension amounting to &;200 for every year he had occupied a Commons seat. The 20-year veteran, and there are a few of them, would be entitled to 34,000. The rookie who was beaten after serving a single four-year term would draw S800. M.P.'s argue that such a pension is neces- sary because theirs has become a full-time job. Other businesses dwindle away through neglect when a member is compelled to spend as much time in Ottawa as the mod- ern long sessions of Parliament demand.

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As already announced over Canadian Press, Canada figures promlnently.in the honours to be conferred at the Encaenia to be held at Oxford on June 20th. Re- cipients include the Govcrnor General, the Prime Minister, and the Secretary of State for External Affairs. Doctorates of Civil Law will be conferred on Field Marshal Viscount Alexander of Tunis. Mr. St. Lau- rent and Mr. Lester Pearson (who is an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Ox- ford). The Govemor-General will be pre- sent to receive the degree, but the Prime

Minister and Mr. Pearson will be honoured in absentla.

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"There is a great anxiety among a certain class of people to have the intended Market House on the west end of Queen Square. To this, however, there are many ob- jections. Thc first is, that. there is not sufficient space; and the second, that a Market House in that particular locality would be as great a nuisance as the pre- sent. Squares are intended as inlets for pure air-as ventilators to the adjoining streets. and have hence been denominated the lungs of cities and towns, and we all know that unless the lungs be kept. in a healthy state, disease supervenes. "But, they say. the plan of the town shows that one of these reservations. either that occupied by St. Paul's Church or the old Court House. was set aside for the express purpose of a site for a Market House. Very true, but be it remembered that at the time such reservation was made. people were not so well versed in sanitary lore, as they are at present. Our ancestors rather loved dirt than otherwise, at least they did not esteem the cleanliness of their cities and towns such an all important mut- ter as their posterity very pro- perly do. Besides, since that do)". the government have ap- propriated tho centre of Queen Square to the Colonial Building. "Now. it will be but justice to Ch8Fl0itel0Wn. if in return for the space so lnjudiciously taken from its largest and best Square, the Government should provide :1 proper site for a Market House. The Colonial Building, if perm;-,. ted to be in the Square. should have been erected at the west end where some people say the Market House should be built: the centre of the Square might have been then railed in and planted. Let us in the name of common sense. as men sensible of the value of fresh air, and not wholly lnsensible to the wish ll making our newly created City "IS ornamental as possible. do our """”5t 10 Prevent the Square from being further tlesccratcd. and. ourselves from being justly designated as void of all min. clples of taste or science."

-Hnszardls Gazette. Oct. 24, 1855.

Pioneer Of Press Freedom

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Freedom of the press has he- comc a fighting slogan of the editorial world and some people overlook the fact that the prin- ciple was formulated largely as a protection to printers before cri- itors wore numerous enough to be organlzed. When a pamphlet ap- peared that offended official dig- nity, it was sometimes hard to put H finger on the author: often easier to get tough with the printer.

England demanded. in early times, that all printed matter be licensed by the Stationers Guild. The Guild. in turn, submitted it to various kinds of censorship. ac- cording to the subject matter.

The man who broke this licens- Ing system down was John Milton. best remembered as a poet whose diction is gexcellcd only by that of Shakespeare.

However, Mllton was ll flghllmz pamphletecr during the greater part of his life. As a sort of public relations officer for Crom- well. he upheld the right of par- liament to depose and punish a king who overstepped his author- ity. The beheading of Charles I had jnrrcd all the courts of Eur- ope. Dcvotces of monarchy thund- ered from every capital. They thundered in Latin and it look cl scholar nnd debatcr of Milton's caliber to answer them. He seems to have done It to the satisfaction of history. . .

Another of his rnmpnlqns had to do with divorce. His own trnglc mlsmatlng made him an advocate of more lenient divorce laws. A pamphlet on this sub- ject was issued without license. Of course it could not have with- stood censorship.

When opponents raised the cry that he had evaded the llcenslnr

(The Printed Word)

A: a matter of historical in- terest. it may be noted that an old-age pension plan was part of Blsmurck's welfare and embryo totalitarian state. The plan came into operation in Germany som:- time in the 1880's.

There probably were some eld- erly Germnns who benefited from the scheme in its early days. but, after the First World War and the subsequent inflation of the German mark, the value of Ger-, man old-age pensions sank in zero. l The German experience was thei worst. but none of the few coun-i tries that have adopted old-age! pension plans has much reason to; pride itself on the results. Thei inflationary effects of the collec- tions and payments destroy much of the benefit expected and help to add' to the burden of those who are old-fashioned enough to be thrifty and self-supporting.

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law. he answered in another un- licensed pamphlet. entitled "Aren- pogitlca, or Speech for the Lib- erty of Unlicensed Printing" int November 1644. Actually no speech was delivered, but his words - far in advance of their time-have echoed through courts and legis- lative balls from that day to this. He not only "got away" with his contempt of formalities. but the licensing system fell into disuse from that hour.

. n 3 Milton survived much more se- rious danger. when royalty was restored in the person"of Charles II. Why the new king failed to revenge himself on the defender of his father's execution is , .1 puzzle to this day. Many less im- portsnt Cromwellians were hung or sought exile. Boston. Mass, got: its chief early impetus from Puritans fleeing the Restoration. Perhaps it was Mlltonts lncreasinz blindness. perhaps intercession of General Monk. who admired him in any case. he was shunned for years by old associates, who would cross the street to avoid meeting him. His re-winning of acclaim followed the publication of Far- ndise Lost. It brought Milton only 325 in money but it filled his small home with a throng of admirers, drawn from the elite of London. Dryden is said to have cxclnlmcd. "He hath cut us all out and the ancients beside." Dryden had been esteemed as England's foremost poet.

It is of interest to printers that the first noteworthy use of John Boskervllle's type face was in an edition of Milton's Paradise Lost coupled with Paradise Regulned nnd Samson Agonlstes in 1671. Baskervllle has not the pattern for several modern typ: faces.

Such was the man to whom the principle of press f. edom owes its first impetusix There have been other heroes and martyrs in the causes. but Milton's priority and eloquence form the outstand- ing landmark of this phase of progress. -

STARS

Now in the West the blender moan lies low,

And now Orion glimmcrs through the trees,

Clearing the earth with even pace and slow:

And now the stately-moving Ple-

des, that soft inllnite darkness

In overhead,

Hang jewel-wise upon a silver thread.

And all the lonelier stars that have their place.

Calm lamps within the vdlstsnt

southern sky.

And planet-dust upon the edge of space,

Look down upon the frctful world. And I

Look up to afraid,

And see the stars which sang when earth was made.

-Marjorie Plckthall.

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II the loser in an Australian election an "Aussie" ran"?-(Lon- don Free Press.)

'TwoIIld be I better world if as many people lent a hand as are wining to give advice.-(Saskatoon Btu-alfhoenlx.) .

You and I and the rest of this generation will never live again in a peacetime y.-(Archblsh- op Richard J. Cushlng of Bos- ton.)

Even a king likes to celebrate his birthday and His Majesty's present illness has cut him out of whatever public or ” mastic en- joyment: were planned. "me ill- ness, by all accounts, is not seri-

those stubborn infections which are hard to track down and elim- inate. Patience and more patience are required for a. cure. Even if King George t himself be out and about today. there are many of his subjects, here and elsewhere, who are remembering him and honoring him for his unselfish and devoted services. May his health be quickly re- stored.- (Montreal Star.)

From what the Postmaster- Generul of Canada. says, politics are so far removed from the Post. Office that there can be no truth whatsoever in the old joke about the man whose application was turned down. It was true that he was politically very acceptable. But: the postal authorities didn't quite see how they could make ll. postmaster of a. man who couldn't. read or write. when this objec- tion was raised, the applicant was utterly astonished. "But," he pro- tested, "I'm applying for a job as ; t . I'm not applying for 3 job as deputy postmaster!"- (Montreal Gazette.)

The Moscow radio recently an- nounced that a Canadian woman was heading a commission in North Korea. to investigate "crimes by imperialist interven- tlonists in Korea." The Canadian Press has disclosed that the we- man in question is Mrs. Nora. Rodd of Windsor. Now if Mrs. Rodd on her return

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in I , will tell the truth abo 19”"? 9" in lion curliiiiivhsg ” . trles--about that slave labor "H. the thought control and Lgmpst Demons her trip will not TB , been entirely useless. But, 1; M returns to the safety og me 31;” mlnlon only to spout; pmpagandt about "imperialist interventlo I .ists", the lady will be one Canada could well Spare,-.iwhd nlpeg Tribune.) ii

r the immense debt which this continent and in n.i."";Lf,,"," ation owes to serge Koussevitzk: lives the chance he gave mums. lovers everywhere to hear mm lwoa most worthy of survival in the work of modern Composgn For 27'years conductor of in; Boston Symphony orchestra,u-hm, lfrom the days of Carl Muck nah lsunl: steadily inbo obscurity,1-(nus. isevltzky built into it perhaps ihc symphonic orchestra in He introduced his 30.. noes to such compoun 's.s Sibelius, Honegger, Gruenberg iwalton, Kodaly and others. it if perhaps not too great an exagger. sation to say that the wide famli. llaxlty of today's listeners to mu. sic with the work of such men 1. these bad its beginnings in Kour. sevltzky's insistence upon per. forming them. to the bewilder. ment and consternation of (hp, lgreat majority hem,-,l born and bred in the tradition or , the "classics". To him is also due the Berkshire mid-summer music- al festivals begun at Tanglewood in 1934 and the Berkshire School ;ln 1940, between them the toun. nation for that American music :centre which was the Boston conductor's dream. The sum of Lhls contribution to musical know- ledge and appreciation on this Econtlnent; is far beyond llltll. of other conductors of more misa- tlonal and publicity-seeking meth- ods. Thanks iD radio, the record and, it seems altogether probabl.-. in time. to television, the Wolk at such great conductors as Kons- sevltzky and Toscanlnl is 2: past of our cultural heritage. Not only Boston. but the world of lllllslc in poorer because of his death.-

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