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CI!ARL()TTI'.'TOWN SATURDAY. JULY 8, 1950

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Museum For Iiewfoundiand

Newfoundland is getting ahead of Prince Edward Island in establishing a Provincial Museum, which is to be opened in St. John's within the next three or four months. The curator. Mr. Leo F. English, M.B.E., has been visiting Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Saint John, N. B. and Halifax for the pur- pose of acquainting himself with the set-ups of various museums, and obtained much useful information on the subject. The authorities at the National Museum of Ot- tawa were very helpful and offered every co-operation. Mr. English was particularly impressed with the Saint John. N. B. museum. an institution founded by the late Dr. Clarence Webster and his wife. now functioning as a municipal insti- tution supported by civic funds and local citizens and societies. Its curators give lec- tures both to school groups and adults, and it also sends out exhibits and educational material to the schools of the Province. The museum at Halifax is divided at pre- sent between a small natural scenic exhibi- tion and an historical section at Dalhousie. Plans are under way to reconstruct this museum on modern lines.

Last year in this Province an impetus to the museum movement was given by the splendid exhibition of historic objects held by the I. O. D. E. The large and varied number of exhibits loaned, and the marked public interest taken in the display, proved a surprise even to the promoters. There is no doubt but that a Provincial Museum would fill a long felt need in Prince Edward Island, and that it would be of great edu- cational value as well as an added attraction to our summer visitors. .

This movement should not be delayed until some palatial building is available for the purpose. It is something which we should have provided for long ago. Our neglect has meant the loss of many valu- able relics of our pioneer past, which have gone to other museums or been taken away by private collectors. Newfoundland's ac- tion in this matter, so soon after becoming a Province of Canada. should remind us that we have been wasting much valuable time.

The Women's Institutes

The Womenls Institutes have become such an essential part of our Provincial activities educationally. culturally, socially and otherwise that it is difficult to imagine what Prince Edward Island would be with- out them. Certainly there is no need to worry on that score, as the movement has grown from strength to strength and shows no signs of retrogressing. either in the membership or in the enthusiasm with which the work of the organization is be- ing conducted.

The annual sessions of the Provincial Institute, which open on Monday, will be attended by Mrs. Morton, of Alberta, pres- ident of the Federated Women's Institute of Canada. and a programme of special interest has been arranged. The various committee reports will deal with such di- verse subjects as agriculture, home econ- omics, citizenship, social welfare, drama and music festivals, arts and handicraft, and the reports and discussions will be followed with general interest.

With two delegates from each of the Provincial branches, over 500 delegates in all will attend the convention, making this one of the most representative gatherings to be held in any part of Canada.

Distinguished Visitors

The members of. the British Agricultural Mission now touring Canada will arrive in Prince Edward Island tomorrow morning on a two days' visit, during which they will have an opportunity of seeing something at first hand of our farming activities. Head- ed by Sir" William Ogg. director of the Rothamstead Experimental Station in Eng- land-the largest station of its type in the world-the Mission comprises some of Bri- tain's leading agricultural scientists. They will have much of interest to discuss with

, our own agricultural leaders, and there is

no question but that their visit will be of mutual value. Incidentally. it should re- suit in a great deal of publicity for this Province in the Oldicountry, for we have no doubt as to the favorable impression which the visitors will receive.

Too frequently in the put. the Maritime:

been ignored in important tours of

On this occasion the visit is

being sponsored by the Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture and every opportunity is being given of seeing the country from coast to coast. In no part of Canada will the visitors be assured of a warmer wel- come, and the only regret will be that they cannot spend a longer period with us.

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Christianity has had a long history of schism and reunion with the former playing an all too striking role. It used to be pos- sible to speak of Christendom as a very real concept. The Great Schism of 1054 when the Eastern and Western church went their several ways ended that as an existing state of affairs and the many great and lesser divisions which have since taken place have given the Christian Church the semblance of utter disunity rather than the indlvisibil- ity which all branches claim for it.

One of the great factors working for united action as well as spiritual union is the World Council of Churches, of which the annual meeting of the policy-making central committee is for the next week meeting in Toronto. The World Coundil was formed at Amsterdam in 1948 and will hold its second assembly in the United States in 1953.

Almost all Christian denominations, Eastern and Western are represented on the Council with the notable exception of R0- man Catholicism and it, although not a member, has observers at assembly meet- ings. The aims of the World Council must have the sympathy of all Christians every- where, whether or not they can approve of its method of approach.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Tomorrow, 5th Sunday after Trinity. 0

O 0 Training begins today at Pictou for the 28th Light A. A. Regiment, R.C.A. The Is- lenders have an outstanding record of artil- lery efficiency to live up to. 0 I O The Calgary Stampede begins today. When it is over there will commence the stampede of Maritimers eastbound on the "Spud Island Special." 0 O O 0 Mr. W. F. Turgeon, who has been divid- ing his time between the positions of chair- man of the Royal Commission on Transpor- tation and High Commissioner in Dublin, has been now made Canadian Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland-a full time job. 0 O I Two O'Leary business men have the credit for changing the time-honoured order of things. Mainland firms have long been in the habit of opening branches here. Now Messrs. Ozon and Matthews have opened a branch of their dry goods and footwear business in Nova Scotia. 0 I 0 Chicago Blue Cross rates are being in- creased chiefly because members are using hospital facilities in greater volume than ever before. It is one of the dangers of any pre-paid scheme that participants will be inclined to make a greater than normal use of hospitalization in order to ”get value for their money". The result. of course. is higher costs for all.

Mr. I-Iormisdas Langlais, member of the Quebec Legislature for the Magdalen is- lands, reports the situation of fishermen in the St. Lawrence gulf islands is precarious this year due to devaluation of the pound sterling, a poor season of mackerel fish- ing, and low prices of competing Newfound- land and Scandinavian fish. Mr. Langiais said devaluation of the pound operates to the disadvantage of Magdalen Island fish- ermen by permitting Scandinavian fisher- men to undersell them by some 30 per cent on the British market. The Legislature member said the price Magdalen island. fish- ermen get for their cod has fallen from four cents a pound in 1946 to two cents this year and their catch hasifallen from 18,000 bar- rels to about 2,000 this year.

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Joseph Chamberlain, British statesman, born this date 1836. A successful Birming- ham business man. he was repeatedly re- turned as Mayor on a social refomi pro- gramme. I-le was subsequently elected M.P. and with Jos. Collins. inaugurated a social reform programme for the country at large, their slogan being "3 acres and a cow" for every family. Subsequently he split with Gladstone over his Home Rule for Ireland policy, and joined with the Conservatives in creating the Liberal-Unionist Party. Later he collaborated with Balfour in forming a Conservative Government, and inaugurated his Imperial Free Trade policy. When Mr. Balfour refused to make this one of his planks in the Party's political platform. Chamberlain withdrew and started, as Punch indlaited, "ploughing his own long lonely furrow". l-le visited Canada and other parts of the Empire. and received heartening, vocal support for his policy, but nothing practical ensued; instead the Statute of Westminster was adopted which tended to separate rather than combine the Eni-

pire along the lines Chamberlain visioned.

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bridgeable. The employees, now paid on the basis of a 48-hour week. are asking for a 40-hour week and increases in hourly wages that would raise their week- ly take-homo income by 32.80 a week for international union mem- b91'8 Ind 34 I week for members of C adian unions. A conciliation board reconrmendsd I 44-hour week. with an hourly wage in- crease of 6.83 percent. This would mean a weekly wage slightly be. low that earned during a 48-hour week for a majority of employees. Thelrailway managements accept- ed the recommendation. but the unions did not. Yet there seems ground hero for compromise. if the employees were to receive the same take-home pay for 44 hours as for 48, not all their demands would be met. But a positive im- provement .in living standards would result. for the great bulk of employees who are now working 48 hours a week. This plan would

' l9fQ9MOOQ Old Charlottetown Q (And P is. I.)

CHARLOTTETOWN common

'Under Lieutenant Governor Fan. ning (1786-1805) . and apparently Without any legislative sanction. the Common of Charlottetown was laid off into thirty-six blocks of land. containing twelve acres each. which were granted away on car. tairi conditions. The legality of these transactions was challenged when the City became incorporat- ed in 1855. The grantew names and lot numbers are thus given in ii report prepared in that year by I special committee for the City Council:

1. Joseph Robinson; 2. John Rob- ins, Alex Fletcher; 3. Alex Gordon; 4. James Campbell; 5. Donald Mc- Phee: 6. Col. Theophilus De.sBris- ay; '7. Alex Rind; 8. Samuel Bag- nall; 9. William liaszard: 10. E. White and W. Bowley; ll. Benjam- in Chappell; 12. James Robertson; 13. Walter Berry; 14. James Doug- las; l5. (granted by Lieut. Govern- or DesBarres) William Townshend; 16. Charles Stewart; l7. James Col- lege; l8. Hon. John Patterson; 10. Robert Gray; 20. George Burns; 21 Col. Theophilus DesBrisay; 22. Wal- ter Patterson; Peter McGowan; 23. Hon. John Patterson; 24. John and Thomas Webster: 26. John Cam- bridge; 27. David Ross: 28, Maj. Charles Lyons; 29. Hon. Peter Stewart. Chief Justice; 30, John Brecken; 31, Robert Hodgson and R. Brecken; 32. W. H. Perry; 34. Thos. Wright; 35. Alex MacMillan. Francis Longworth.

After searching the records, the committee reported that the grant- ees of Lots Nos. 1, 2, 5, 7, 15. 17, '9, 20. 24 and 30 had apparently coni- plied with one of the conditions of the grants. namely that of regis- tration within six months from the date of the grant. and that the following Lots were not registered until after that period: 3. 4. ll, 12. 13, 16. 24. 27, 31 and 34, failing to perform which condition a forfeit- ure of the grant was ihe penalty: that Lots Nos. 6, 8. 9. 10. 18, 21, "3. 26. 28, 28. 32 and 35 had never been registered. and that the dates of grants of Lots Nos. i0. i8. 23. 25 and 32 remained blank, also that Lots. 25 and 33 had never been granted.

"it appears to your committee," says the report which is signed by Benjamin Davics. chairman. AF!- emas G. Sims and Donald Mell- aac, "that. the Legislature did not at any time yield up the right. they rossessed as guardians and protectors of the Common of Char- lottetown. They observe. Ii0WeVer. that they exercised their authority over it, for in the year 1780. being the 20th in the reiiin of Georiie III. a bill was added to the statutes of the island. sanctioning the leasing of a certain part of the Common. rent free, for the space of ten years.

"Your committee are of opinion that the Legislature of that day were induced to grant PH'mIllI0n to lease the Common. WW1 II" precautionary view against fire. which might arise thereon to the Town, as It thIt early period the Common and suburbs were in I wilderness state. being covered with brushwood and forest tron, There cnnnot be I doubt but that the intention of leasing the Com- mon was, that this combustible matter should be removed: In this o,' ' your committee ful themselves confirmed. In they find the Act for leasing the Common wu repealed in few. the will you of George in. forty yam ago. I time when the ineumbrancoa were removed, the desired effect of the Act having-been accomplished."

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original plan of the Town and Common. the Co was roun- c.-i for cxiendin ind Tova. when

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circumstances warranted the en- largement. that the Government Farm containing 100 acres was part thereof. and that no authority ex- isted to grant it away without an Act of Parliament to that effect. The committee thought the facts enumerated "were sufficiently strong to prove to the City or any other authorities that the occup- ants of the Common have held pos- session thereof only by the suf- ferance of the Colonial Govern- ments; that the grants. under plea of which they claim the Common, are grants of Pasture Lots in the Royalty. and that it is notorious. Lieut. Governor Fanning and his Council participated largely in the spoilaiion; under these circum- stances, it ceases to be a matter of wonder. the thing has been kept quiet and that the matter has been hushed up from the public so long." They advised that notices be is- sued cautionlng all persons against trafficking in land or erecting any buildings or fixtures within the Common, without special license from the Mayor. "as they feel sat- isfied that the right of the Town to the Common will sooner or later prevail against all transgressors." The committee's optimism on this point. proved unjustified. Many years later. Dr. D. C. Harvey in an article on Charlottetown wrote as follows: "It was the obsequious and peitifogging Lieutenant-Governor Fanning who commenced tamper- ing with me Charlottetown Com- mon. establishing the precedent by which the Common was ultimately lost to the citizens of Charlotte- town. First it was agreed that to lease the Common for I period of years would be in the interest of the Province. Then it was grad- ually appropriated. bit by bit, un- til now it has all passed into priv- ate hands and is indistinguishable from the rest of the city. except by the angle in the streets that start from Eualon northward."

0'l'i'AWA. July 5 - (CP) - Thieves forced I well sale in the downtown offices of Desnochon Motor sales Limited during the night and escaped with bciiween

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THE SUMMONS

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Railway Wage Dispute

(Ottawa Citizen)

Although a strike vote favoring a work stoppage has now been

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taken by the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees and the Canadian Brotherhood of Express Employees, no efforts to reconcile the dispute have been made by management or labor. A strike vote is also being taken by 15 in- ternational unions ,in the non-op- ersting trades. The ballots on this vote are returnable July 25. If a reconciliation is not reached before that date, and if this vote. too, fa- vors a strike. the country will be faced with the grave possibility of a transportation tie-up.

Thus far. the two parties to the dispute have held each other at arm's length, showing no willing- ness io bargain. The unions may be waiting for all the strike ballots to come in. to give them a weapon of great force. Management may be waiting to see how the employees vote. before deciding to re-open negotiations. But if I strike dead- line is set after a vote favoring a stoppage. the industry will drift toward I crisis. Before the total results of the strike ballots are known. I move toward conciliation should be made. The federal De- partment of Labor might help by inviting the two parties to meet before an emergency Itnioqllato develops.

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therefore represent I compromise for both management and labor. But only further negotiation can achieve anything. Nothing will be accomplished by the present stand pat attitude.

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British plane: will make an or. tempt this summer to break world air speed records. Experimental fighter aircraft will be used and the types likely to be chosen are the Hawker P 1052 and the Vickers Supermarine P 510. both cf which are still on the secret. list. The present world speed record is just under 671 miles an hour. it 1.; claimed that these two new jet aircraft. can reach speeds greater than sound. (about 760 rn.p.h. at sea level and 660 m. p. h. at 30,. 000 feet). -U. K. Information.

To pledge ' as in advanou to place cur basic industries un. der an international authority whose powers and composition an undefined is something the Brit. ish public wculd never do. But there are other forms of interns. tional control than the one M, schuman proposes. and Britain should take a constructive lead in pointing this out. We could wen propose a Board of Control to which specific powers only would be delegated. thus avoiding the dangers of an organization free from all governmental direction. What must be made plain above all else is that it is quite false to suppose that we have to choose between Europe and the Common- wealth. or between Europe and tho United steites. indeed. I living community of interests exists be- tween the three today.- News

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