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I Morning Daily (fimnded In 188'!) Alltloriled u Second Claus Mall. Polt OM00 Depnmnent. Ottawa.

President. Inn A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. It.

Burnett; Secy-Tream, G. M. Burnett; Editor and

Managing Director, .I. B. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.”

MONDAY, JUNE 30. 1947

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July lst, Dominion Day, with the backing of history and tradition, is the birthday of the Da-

ininion of Canada. lt is, of course, the anni- versary marking the date when Confederation, formally came into being. The proclamation in the name of Queen Victoria, "Given at our’ Court, at Windsor Castle, this twenty-secondl day of May, in the! year of our Lord One Thou-i sand Eight Hundred and Sixty-seven, and in, the Thirtieth Year of our Reign," was entitled} a proclamation for uniting the Provinces of Can-» ado, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into onel Dominion. lt was not until l873—again on July’ is."—tliat Prince Edward island came into Con- federation. Thus tomorrow is not only the 80th: anniversary of our birth as a nation; it is the 74th} anniversary of our assumption of all the rights,l privileges and responsibilities of a full-fledged’ Province of this Dominion.

This double anniversary falls at an oppor- tune time—on the eve of the arrival here of S. S. Abegweit to inaugurate a new era in our

transportation history, so intimately linked withi°l Pulllllmelll “d Fedelul Glllemmelll °lllcl°l5i

the Confederation compact. The christening of- the Abegweit at the Sorel shipyards on Saturday,I attended by leading members of the Dominion.‘ Cabinet and by hundreds of parliamentarians andl others from every Province, was an auspiciousf prelude to tomorrow's celebration.

We have come a long way from the oldj sailboat crossing days to the acquisition: of ai f-ve million dollar Diesel-powered iccbreaker.‘ But it was all inherent in the terms of union which the Fathers of Confederation consumn mated. Let us recall what this country was at that time——a group of sccrfered colonies, cir- cumscribed in population, suspicious "one of another, and lacking in everything except un- developed resources. Railway“ building was in its infancy, with a mere 2,200 miles in the Ceri- tral Provinces; not a single mile of track north of the Great Lakes, and no transcontinental line for nearly twenty years later. Water transporta- tion was primitive, good roads practically un- known. Quebec and Montreal, Halifax and Saint John, were towns rather tlian cities. Win- nipeg was a settlement cf a few hundred, lost in the immensity of the Prairies. Regina was "Pile O’ Bones"; Saskatoon was not even plan- ned; Calgary and Edmonton had not started to outgrow the trading post stage. Vancouver was a mere five-year-old infant. The West was No Man's Land. The Rocky Mountains towered an almost insurmountable harrici between east and west, and British Columbia was more remote to the rest of Canada than was Europe or Soutli America.

So, if we have advanced under Confedera- tion in Prince Edward Island with the advent of a fine new car ferry, let us remind our sister Provinces that they haven't exactly been stand- ing stilll

A thing of inestimable value to any na- tion is the creation of new bonds of unity. And one of the advantages of the Abegweit, when it arrives, will be in bringing thousands of addi- tional summer visitors to our shores from all our Sister Provinces.

Mr Abbott Institutes Reform

Hon. Douglas C. Abbott, Minister of Fin- ance, has mode it clear to a committee of the House of Commons that he intends to abolish, so far as administratively possible, the much- criticized practice in the Income Department of exercising wide, arbitrary, ministerial rulings.

The list of what Mr. Abbott proposes was brought out in several debates on interim amend- merits to the Income War Tax Act. A general overhaul and revision of the entire Act is under way, to be submitted later to the House. The obiective, Mr. Abbott made plain, is that all tax rulings in future shall be embodied in definite regulations, passed by order-in-council, publish- ed in the Canada Gazette, and made ravailoble in brochure form to all taxpayers. The system will not only help to establish uniformity in tax regulations but make them all subject to im- mediate scrutiny in Parliament.

Mr. Abbott said that a certain flexbifi must be allowed for administration after Par- liament laid down general principles. ‘But he said regulations of the kind should be widely publicized, be mode known to all taxpayers, and subiect to "burning criticism" iii the House if the executive has presumed to go further than it should go.

"l am trying," he said, "to get away from those purely ministerial discretion: and put in something by regulation which will be the tax law, to which the taxpayer can have recourse and which the Courts can interpret and rule on which is not the case with ministerial discretions. That is what I want to get away from as much as possible." .

. This is a commendable attitude on the part of the Finance Minister, and one which will re- ceive the full endorsation of the taxpayers.

‘m Funny For Vliirits

Canada's Defence Minister Cloxton was asked in Ottawa the other day what effect that U. S. Presidential report on necessity of com- pulsory training would have on Dominion policy.

His answer, by reports, was merely a chuckle. "There must," comments The Hamilton, Spectator, "have been something curiously funny about the question or the answer, or, what is more lilrol , the inability to answer the question liitolligo y.or with a straight facn. Only a lot of ocoolo mlcht still be auttiiia a severe test on

their sense of humour quotient to estimate iust why it should be so funny to try and get out of the Minister of National Defence some indica- tion of whore Canada might stand on an enor- mously important defence issue. After all, it is not a rare occasion to see on important issue come before Government.

"Perhaps the joke was that Australia with a population of a little over 7,000,000 people is spending $800,000,000, or three times as much, on her defence this year as we are in Canada with over ll,000,000 people.

"Or perhaps the side-splitter came from esti- mating that Russia, most peacefully-intending of all GQQNSSOPS to date, had o vast army ready ond is spending at least four times as much per capita on her forces this year as we are and for more per capita than the Uited States.

"Or it might be that while our official under- standing of the world situation in Canada is somewhat unique in its clarity and we figure ii would be too expensive to have compulsory military training (and most unproductive ot

‘votesl Great Britain does not feel it is too ex-

pensive and her Socialist Government has en- forced a minimum one year military training period for her young men.

"Or that minority problem might be frustrat- ing us while the United States, which has more ccute minority problems than we have, has found public opinion generally behind compulsory military training and has heard the President speak out in a warning that "we must remem- her above all that these men would not b-e training in order to win a war, but in order to prevent oae'."

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The Car-Ferry christening enabled members an excellent opportunity of spending a long week-end away from Ottawa.

The Women's Institutes will invade the City this week, and we are pretty sure they will have both a pleasant and profitable time lt is great having the Dominion Presidcnt, in the person of Mrs. Allison MacMillan in our midst.

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The Saint John Presbytery of the Presby- terian Church in Canada at its June meeting Tuesday gave consideration to a reference from Me synod of the Maritime Provinces dealing with the appointment of a synodical evangelist and after due deliberation agreed that such an

appointment could not be approved due to the,

nature arid extent of the Presbytery. I ‘I I 1'

Willem Barento, Dutch navigator, died this date i597; he conducted three unsuccessful ex- peditlons from Holland in search of the North- East Passage to Asia from 1594 to 1597. On his third voyage he discovered Spitzbergen, rounded Novoya Zemiya, where he was com- pelled to winter, and there died. In l875, 27B years later, his camp and relics were discovered, and in lB75 a portion of his Journal was found, translated, and published by the Hakluyt Society.

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"R. B." once told a dinner party of Con- servative friends at Charlottetown how srveated blood when Britain unexpectedly went off the gold standard. The British Treasury d-e- cicled to do so on a Saturday, and sent him a coded cable asking if Canada would follow suit. There was not a single Cabinet Minister lll Ottawa but himself, and the onus was on him. He weighed the arguments pro and con in his own mind, and then cabled Canada would remain on the gold standard. As it turned out, that was the right decision for the Dominion and enabled it to carry on satisfactorily until condi-

tions again changed.

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Spur of the moment decisions were almost daily occurrences with "R. B." Once in a cau- cus of Conservative members and Senators, he was severely criticized for not "playing party

politics" in Government appointments, distribu-.

viori of patronage, and policy generally. He listened impatiently till the last of his critics sat down, then rising with blood in his eyes de- clared: "Gentlemen, as your chosen leader and likewise as Prime Minister l have certain duties to perform. lf it is to be a choice between sav- ing the Conservative Party or Canada, l choose the latter. lf you are not satisfied my resigna- tion is now at your disposal, and you can choose my successor." There was consternation for a minute or two, then some one got up and moved a vbte of confidence in his leadership, which was unanimously adopted, and the incident pas- sed into unwritten history. i i i I

Saskatchewan has appointed a public service commission to look after government employees. Duties of the Commission will he ~to appoint such employees as may be necessary to carry out effectively the provisions of the new public service act, to represent the public interest in improving personnel administration in the pub- lic service, to make such investigations as it may consider desirable concerning personnel administration, to review any action by the cnairman, and to perform such other acts as the cabinet may direct. The commission must make annual reports to the cabinet, and such other special reports as it considers desirable regarding personnel administration, together with recommendations for its improvement. Meetings must be held at least once each month expect July. and August.

Corporal punishment is still on issue in school life in the old land. The Canadian Press in a despatch from London says to beat, or not to beat, has become a burning topic among edu- cational authorities, many of whom now recom- mend the abolition of corporal punishment. In England errant schoolboy: are chastised with a cane, usually on the posterior; in Scotland the regular instrument of correction is the town- a strip of leather two feet long one inch wide

divided into two tails at one and. A boy of l3,‘

quoted in a London newspaper, said he had "learned and suffered" on both sides of tho Border and found "nothing to choose" betwce tho twiu '

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Recreation experts linve been meeting ln Hamilton. and !iaven’t yet explained why it that. recreation ts almost mythinl you don't: have to do. - Hamilton Spectator.

The Dominion Government spends n goodly sum o: money ev- ery year dredging silt out of the mouths of rivers tn order to make navigable channels. Some day. perhaps. they will recognize the vslsdom of spending money to keep the topsot-l up an the watershed where 1t; should be. - Farmer's Ad- vacate.

' in swearing procltvlttes men fall lnto a. number of classes. There are those who swear occasionally and those who swear continually. The largest class 1s composed of those who swear only when they ‘nit their thumb with a hammer or 1n cases of such accidents. Yet even this swearing at mishaps l-s a habit which will grow 1n a subtle mim-

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This column is open to an ilincamlon by corre- spondent: or qaenttonn a lntereot. Tho Charlottetown Guardian does not aeceanor- lly endorse the opinion of correspondent l

‘IN PRAISE 0F SINGLE BLISS,

Sin-Some are J contained in two letters which l have appeared ln your Forum re- l cently from correspondents lu Boston-

“The home of the bean and the

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Where the Cabots talk only to‘ Inwells.

And the Lowells talk only to God"

We have purposely delayed mak- ‘ mg a. few deserving comments on l the first letter, until the return of l our delegates from the internal- loriol convention of bachelors held

f)?!‘ unless strict watch is kept. — tChatham News. t We confuse to being thoroughly old-fashioned in our love of poetry, of art. and of architecture. This was ‘brought home when we passed the ihuge Ontario Memorial Hospital on ‘the edge of st. Thomas. built by who Hepburn Govommerit. It thvre .l.< nyihlng attractive c-r anything re uliful about this modernism: slructure we fa11\to see it. As a matter of fact to us 1f. ls about the superfluous in ugliness. If we were not mental before we entered such .1 hulldlng. we imagine ll would ,nr,-t he long before we would be. ‘To add to the hldeousness of the ‘whole structure no attempt has -bc(‘n made to plant any trees. -- . Landon Free Press. | ¢i__ i Europa at present has thousand: nf rtlsiplucerl persons who are of superior tntellizzcnce and educa-

ut the Parker House, Boston, re- cently. I

The report submitted by these,’ delegates upon their return reads ‘ m part as follows:

“Although we did not avatlour- selves of the opportunity of wlt- nessing the goings-on or vlce verso, at. the “Old Howard". the specimens of feminine pulchrlt- uae that we encountered at. such famous places as “0rts" and the “Silver Dollar" were not destined to disturb the romantic suscept- lbllltles of a confirmed bachelor. And even the smiling debutantes who strolled along Commonwealth ' Avenue with their poodles on leash could only intercept. but. not. satisfy our visionary aspirat- tons to beauty."

So there you have lt- from a bachelor on the spot.‘ Your Bos- fon correspondents might welll have mentioned about the Boston‘

, Lion and who possess that attitude ‘toward learning and the arts lWhlUll c-Lir native population ap- ‘prirently lacks, Why not bring, some of them hare? Why not re-I pls-rvish our stock on the lntel-l ~lertual as well as on the industrial lfevel? There would he complaints c-l course. Bu! if we do not import! Ihrains. and if we continue to ex-, };.ort them_ it 1s not hard to see rwhat will happen to us. -King-l {stun Whig-Standard. ' t l ,' The boldness of Lord Mauntlnf- I ‘Jen's solution. his resourcefulriess| and amazing energy has won hlm enormous regard throughout In- dia. If these qualities enable himl [tn prevent further civil strife. not, only ivilblnrlia be spared untold- horrors. but there will be hope. lrn l Nohrufls wc-rds. of “building enewl niir relations w1=h England on a! ‘ friendly and cooperative basls, for- getting the past which has luln sol ‘heavily upon us." Lord Mountbat- ten may yet do for India whorl LOTrl Durham did for Canada. -— The Nation, New York. , Those who constitute themselves Judges of how many doctors or dentists or lawyers will be "need- ed" 1n five or ten years Lime often err grievously. Some 15 years ago Canada was told. 1n anguished tones. that the medical profession was being flooded with newcom- crs arid that: lf the tide were not stemmed a lot of penrilless doc- tors would be on relief. So the l quotas were cut at all our universi- .tles. The country paid for lihls folly "luring the past seven years. for ‘H15 armed services gobbled up all [the younger: doctors available. wvhile undergraduates were rushed through their courses. Now all doctors are overworked and the country 1s still short of them. -Cal. gory Herald.

Worry. we oulno to n form of 1n- surance. If you are born to worry you can do less than nothing about it, and lt would be particularly ab- surd to try. Because tts, secret. ldeliuihls are innumerable. You

never find life so bad, nor people so stupid, nor government so 1n- sane as you anticipate, and this in turn 1s the finest promotion of temporary good spirits. As for the lniserises it. ls supposed to cause lwc think such nonsense comes from diseased attitudes Lo the art; of worry. We have never seen 1r proven by statistics. but by legend we link obesity. baldness and poor investments with people who laugh their Way through Lite. And often to an early death. - Hamilton Spectator.

There are few employers today. particularly the larger corporation: cognizant of the value of goodwill who would defy public opinion by declaring a walk-out, rather than negotiate for the settlement of l. dispute-With labor. And the record shows that. most of the leaders of the larger trodes unions now pre- fer to reach settlements by nego- tlatlon, not only because of Hie public attitude and like dlnier of anti-labor legislation but because they realize that 1n u long rtrlke nobody wlnii -ii.nd tout of all the strikers and worken generally. Or- gorilzed labor would do well to rid its ranks of those lenders to whom tt would seem "the strike‘! the thlnir."— Financial Ttmen (Man- treal).

Quin "URI 0|" ma! 70m?!“

has very unflotteringly described

bachelor who bequeathed hls for-i tune to the three girls who tzurn- l ed down his offer of marrlagmj because: "I owe them ivhat peaccl and happiness I enjovcd." (Read- ers Digest. Apr. 1946i. or abouti the poet: Heinrich Heine who be- queathed all his property to hls wife on condition that she f8-- marry immediately. "Because? he satcl. “there will then be at least one man to regret my death." .‘ Ours 1s no: a tyrannical organ- lzatlon. Membership ls optional. Only the charter members are bonded ($5000) not to marry wiLh- y in ten years. We operate on the. principle expressed so well by Shakespeare: "A good hanging ls better than a bad marriage)” We're violently opposed to dtv-l orce. Let them lle tn their bed] when they make it. We help our . fcllowman to avold the slings and arrows of outrageous femalasanrli we often find that many u man‘ lives to be thankful that. he didl not marry the first girl ivtthl whom he thought he was in love.‘ We are. Slr. etc. , The Press Comrnlttee. P. E. I. Dlv. THE HOLY ALLIANCE 0F BACHELORS P.S.:—The "Observaiif. Citizen" l the bachelors as “male rats". Is.‘ this why some women use so many baited traps? John Newton Baker says a. bachelor ts “a man who thinks before he leaps and thenl doesn't leap."

TRIBUTE T0 VISCOUNT BENNETT i

Sin-By the death of 1.0.21 Ben- nett Canada has lost- orie of her greatest sons and the Empire onel of her greenest Imperlallsts. SLnce | hls sudden death, expressions of sincere sympathy and just respec. l for this greet statesman have, been expressed throughout the world. and justly w. Few men in public llfe have been endowed with such n brilliant mind. such clear vision. such courage and such per- sistence and devotion to duty. Hts whole public career and hls record a: is member of the fiederal Gov- ernment and as Prime Minister o1‘ Canada 1n the difficult an: troubled years of the great de- pression wheat he was dolrig the work of two or three men ls ample proof of his great love for Canada-a devotion which char- acterized his whole life. It may be truly sold of Lord Bennett that he was n, statesman and not a poli- tician. Popes words may we.l he applied to hlm. Truly "he was too fond of the right to pursue the cxpediei-il."

After leaving Canada and be- comlni n member of the House of Lords we who are members or the National Executive of the Cana- dian Red Cruse know and under- otand and deeply appreciate his invaluable help and sane advice u our Rod Cross representative 1n Great. kltaln during the world's greatest war. Hi: untlrlnz devo- tion tn duty while Prime Minister paid life-long- dividends so far an the future of Canada was con- cerned but was dearly bouuht at the expense of lilo bodily health which was shattered during this period."

It. w-u one of my great privil- eflu in public llfe to call this [reef patriot. “my friend". and a true one indeed. I will ever treac- ure that. friendship with "EB." s; hi! friends culled hlm. Hts char- ttlen was numerous and many people tn this countryfivlll mourn the panning of one who helped them tn n ftnnnclnl crisis. He was In ear-nut. and sincere Christian. I man who read the Testament dolly. Rieltgiwa, alurttcbie, pat- riotic, necrttlcea by the trials and rsbponflblllttes of public service to his country. his lofty place nmoni the [teat statesmen of the Emplfls and among the great figures of history, will be m honor and glory to Canada nnd on inspiration for your; Cnnndln to emulate.

' - I um. slr, etc. WJJ. AN, llLD.