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"The Shongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

, CBABLOTTIJTOWN THURSDAY. JUNE '1. 1950

Political Leadership

With one and probably both major po- litical parties here choosing leaders in the near future Islanders would do well to give Lhought to the qualities that are desirable in that exacting role.

Of prime importance. of course. is the ability to lead. Apart altogether from the knowledge and wisdom required by the of- fice it is necessary that the choice should fall on one who is a leader, who is capable of reaching decisions and of securing the backing of his party and a sizable block oi the electorate for those decisions. In other words he must inspire loyalty in his lieuten- ants and confidence on the part of the voters.

Being able to head his party and keep it in popular favour. he must also be able to give direction to the multitude of activ- ities in which Government is today concern- ed. judging accurately the capabilities of his subordinates and selecting them on fnerit without tearing to su1'round himself with those of perhaps greater ability than him- self.

He must also be something of the school- master to bring up the young in the way they should go. and to require of his col- leagues that. they fit themselveslfor their present duties and for others which they may be unexpectedly called upon to under- take. He must be a competent schoolmaster, able and willing to devote time to the in- struction and guidance. individually and col- lectively, of his colleagues in all the legis- lation and questions at issue coming before the Legislature or House of Commons.

Blasting Railway commissioners

The latest. judgment of the Board of Transport Commissioners granting a 3.4 per cent horizontal increase in freight rates brings into question the fitness of this body to discharge the responsibilities placed upon it by the Railway act. Here are the facts. as reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press ;(Liberal):

This latest increase follows upon a 7.4 per cent increase in freight rates granted last March 10, which. in turn. followed an 8 per cent increase last September. In the majority judgment, the Transport Board acknowledges that the 3.4 per cent increase is a result of the failure of the Commission- ers to apply accurately the formula upon which the March judgment was based. Apart altogether from the soundness of the form- ula. the Board reveals itself as being incom- petent to carry through a simple arithmetic calculation. , In terms of dollars to be paid by the public to the railways in higher rates, the error amounts to M3 millions per year.

The 3.4 per cent increase is really an amendment to the two preceding judgments. The earlier judgments are under appeal to the Governor-in-Council by the Govern- ments of the four western provinces and of Prince Edward Island. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The petition of appeal was filed with the Privy Council on March 17, last, since when it has stood for hearing. That the present Transport Board would alter. to the disadvantage of the appellants, a judg- ment already under appeal. is a reflection of its lack of common sense. of respect for the rights of the public as represented by formal petition signed by seven govern- ments. (The petition. as announced in yes.- terday's Guardian. has been amended to bring this latest increase also under appeal.)

In effect". the seven Provincial Govern- ments have been placed in the position of having to go back to Ottawa to ask the Fed- eral Government to see to it that its judg- ment of October 12, 1948 is carried out. As the petition shows. the Transport Board has ignored the instructions of the Federal Government, all three judgments delivered since September 1949 being in contempt of Drder-in-Council P.C. 4678.

The weakness and incompetence of true rransport Board was demonstrated in April. 1948, after the delivery of the judgment in- creasing rates by 21 per cent. The Fed- erai Government, not without considerable prodding in the House of Commons, con- ceded the fact and proceeded to reorganize the Board. It is worth noting that Mr King, in announcing the retirement of He then chairman and the appointment to that position of Hon. M. B. Archibald. spoke of un "substantially increased responsibilities" 3; mg and of the urgent need oI' '.mmgnm,lt. The necessary wgislation

gig;-3 pupa. The 21 per cent increase ' WI! signed by the then Chef

'1. A. Cross who retired in ,-and Commissioners &'ivestre. no stone. Mr. Hugh Wardrote. Chief Commissioner, wrote a

minority judgment favoring a stlh higher increase.

Last January. Mr. Archibald, the new Chief Commissioner. fell ill. He has not yet returned to duty. In his absence the Board has consisted largely of the persons whose judgment of March 30. 1948. brought about the reorganization and led to the appeal to the Federal Government in October of that year. The presiding Commissioner in the last two judgments increasing freight rates has been none other than Mr. Wardrope. the dissenter from the 21 per cent judg- ment. The one exception is that Mr. Stone has retired from the Board and been re- placed by Mr. Howard Chase. a former rut!- way union official.

In brief. a Transport Board, consisting of

the rump of the former incompetent and discredited body of March 1948, with the addition in Mr. Chase of an outright repre- sentative of the railway unions, has been handing out increases in freight rates to the railways these past several months and adding to the discrimination against the dis- senting Provinces-doing so in contempt of the Federal Government whose Order-in- C')nncll has been ignored. Specifically. the Board has failed to carry out the Federal Government's instructions with respect to the proper charging of maintenance costs. to granting of horizontal increases in rates, to the apportionment of dividends between rail earnings and other income and so forth. As the Provincial Governments declared be- fore this latest judgment. there has been "a substantial miscarriage of justice." "And while all this has been going on.” says the Free Press. ”the Federal Govern- ment has had before it a petition of ap- peal from seven Provincial Governments. How long does the Government intend to allow this situation to continue?"

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EDITORIAL NOTES

The Shannon captured by the Chesa-

peake. this date 1813. O O D No price is set on the lavish summer: June may be had by the poorest comer. O 0 O

Evidently advocates of a "Brighter Sun- day" are to be an oppressed minority. O O O ' Automobile and truck tires are going up in price. Oh well, inflation might have been expected. I O C

A solid sugar model of the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa formed the centrepiece at a luncheon in Liverpool, England. held recently by the Liverpool and District Cana- dian Club. It was fashioned by at Liverpool hotel chef for the inaugural lunch of the Club last Autumn.

June is supposed to be the month of wed- dings. but actually takes second place to August in that respect. According to 1947 statistics of the Department of Health and Welfare, the most recent at hand, there were 94 marriages in August compared with 87 in June. November was a close third with 86. The least popular months in this respect are February, March and April.

Seventeen past presidents had their say at Rotary this week and tonight some twenty-five P. P.'s have been invited to ad- dress the Charlottetown Board of Trade. President Frank Curtis should have remem- bered that he will very shortly be a Past President himself. and is practically asking to be twenty-sixth to speak on a subsequent occasion. C C I

Charles James Lever, Irish novelist and physician. died this date 1872. He entered the consular service. and died while consul at Trieste. Had a European reputation for generosity. extravagance and eccentricity. l-Iis novels include Charles O'Maiiey and Harry Lorrequer. which are full of excellent fun. although unfortunately they give a wrong imprtlon of Irish character and society.

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The news of the death of Col. H. S. Hadden. New York, will have been heard with deep regret here. He was a regular summer visitor. and as enthusiastic as any Islander in boosting its beauties, cli- mate. and sporting facilities. He loved the rod. and nothing better than spending a pleasant time with some congenial compati- ion of whom he had many. Both in New York. and at his tobacco ranch in South Carolina he loved to entertain Island friends.

The evacuation of Dunkirk this date 1940. On May 10 Germany invaded Bel- gium. On 28th King Leopold capltulatcd. The British Expeditionary Force was left stranded and had to extricate itself from the battle front as best it could. After a fighting retirement to the coast, was evacu- ated together with a large number of French troops, from the ports of Dunkirk and St. Valerie by vessels of every type and size un- der the control of the Royal Navy. a joint operation which ranks high in the annals

of the British fighting services.

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Q (Am! r a. 1.; B -:3 navnxua BOAT GRANT

Legislative Asembly. Saturday, April 22. 1848:

On motion of Mr. F. Longworth. it was agreed to grant .610 for the building of a boat for the service of the Impost Department of Charlottetown. The motion re- ceived the cordial support of sev- eral hon. members, who all especial- ly urged that the supplying of the boarwould afford means for the increasing of the revenue by the prevention of smuggling, for the carrying on of which the want of such a boat, on the part of the Im- post Department. greatly increas- ed the facilities.

Mr. Longworth stated that the amount of revenue collected by the Impost officer was about 21400 or E1500 a year. and his salary only two per annum; and he thought it would be very impolitic economy to refuse E10 to enable him more effectually to protect and in- crease the revenue.

On a division. the motion was carried by a majority of one. On the re.solutions,of the committee being subsequently reported to the House, this grant was disallowed on the following division:

Yeas - Haviland. J. Longworth. J. H. Conroy. F. Longworih. Douse. H. McDonald. Cotes. Palmer.

Nays - Rae. Clark. Montgomery. Thornton, N. Conroy. D. MacLean. Mooney. D. MacDonald, Wbelan, Fraser, Jar-dine. Mclntosh. Le- Lachewr.

The Tie That Binds

(Globe and Mail)

The family is the basic unit. of society. and its welfare is of the utmost importance to our civiliz- ation. There have been many signs. however. that the integrity of the family is being threatened, with serious consequences to both parents and children. Many of its duties have been taken over by other agencies; the material conditions of our times have threatened its moral basis. In the increase of divorce alone, there is a grave cause for concern as to

the well-being of this fundamen- tal institution. Many corrective: have been

suggested. and much effort. has been made to provide compen- sations for the failure of the mod- ern family to fulfil its function. lost of those compensations are external. such as recreational and educational programs. and are de- signed to fill up time formerly occupied in the home by work no longer necadnr, in moot city household. if the health of the lamiy unit. ll to be restored; how- ever, the remedy will have to come from within. as In ornmc development. -

Great interest. therefore, is be- ing taken in a significant crusade to restore the old custom of fun- lly worship. In Toronto and also- where. huge gatherings have been held recently under Catholic aun- plcu. keyed by the slogan. "The family that prays together. luv! together." A stirring invitation is made. not only to Catholics. but to all funliies. to adopt the habit of spending: short time together every day in common prayer There can be no doubt this cun- plign in bearing fruit

The grove danger to the modern family is I ton of focus. The in- terut of its members lend In draw them outside the home. Family prayer may larva. to re- ntore that unifying factor. By cenfrlng attention. even for I abort time daily. on matter: be- yond earthly life and things. it would "bring contact with the spiritual and thus uplift and in- spire. ”

There are thousands ef Cana-

Dean of Canterbury -

(London Spectator?

The problem of the Dean of Canterbury becomes increasingly acute. A clean is commonly assum- l ed to have decanal duties of some con quencs to occupy him. They do not seem to prevent Dr. Hew- lett Johnston from departing to the Anlipodes on business more congenial to Moscow than to Canterbury, and planning a re- turn via the United States. for which. however. a Vista has been refused. The dean fears the effect this action may have on Anglo- American relations. He need have no apprehensions. The only emo- tion it will awaken is one of re- gret (confined to this particular case) that a British subject does not need a visa to re-enter Britain. One of the opinions ascribed to Dr. Hewlett Johnston in Sydney was that the empty spaces in Aus- tralia might with advantage be populated by Chinese; he has since. however. described this in language which may or may not be customary at. Canterbury as a damned lie.

What is to be done about this dean (who is credited with three books on ”The Socialistisixth of the world." ”soviet strentgth" and ”Soviet Success”. and with none on any religious or ecclesiastical subject)? Nothing can be done about him. The Chapter of Can- terbury has publicly disassociated itself from him. So has the Arch- bishop of Canterbury. But the Crown put him where he is on the advice of Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald, and there he will stay till he decides to do otherwise.

family worship was a regular ele- ment of their lives. In their own homes they have neglected its ob- servance. sometimes because they have felt a lack of time. some- -times through I sort. of shyness. Their children have thus missed the habit of the quiet pause in which the family knelt together. and a valued tradition has been weakened. In times of trial and -uncertainty. like these: in days when material things in people's

Far. far ahead, IS all hot

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) The Age-Old Story 9

WIIERE LIES THE LAND?

Where lies the land to which the

ship would go?

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I Notes By

The Hamilton student; who Shout-Ed down the Dean of Canter- bury md broke up his meeting ought to be ashamed of them- selves. They behaved like nitwita and rowdies. They acted as if they were afraid of what Dean John. son had to say. They provided propaganda for the cause they were trying to discredit. Much is heard about the instruction given in present-day schools about civil rights. the methods of democracy and so forth. These Hamilton students have not teamed their lessons in civics very well. They have made Canadian democracy look like a fraud and a delusion. AThe Globe and Mali.

Birds don't one too much for white birches as housing sites. The fragile boughs are unstable.foun- dation for even a one-room roof- treo. An ask, an elm or a hem- lock is where a wise thrush sets his airy sills. And a farmer doesnt care too much for white birch as fuel. even if a log or two looks sort of pretty in a wood-box. But as long as eyes are made for see-

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she eyed the ;?.rn':g.d'” "um 'Wuxed floors. hum -1-0., hwi work for a woman. no "'3 lAll rlght.' And 1 don... floors, neither-or wash W work. or-' At. this polm I i inspired. I asked her to p1eb.e::': sit in my wing chair. sh, look bewildered but she did. when”. stood back and tilted my had i one side. I walked all around h" and then I told her: an .. m.” but rm afraid you just, wont. All I need a maid for is to sit in that chair and look beaut.iful-um you aren't even pretty - Wm Street Journal.

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Another button has fallen 5,- fore the relentless march of medf anized civilization. A port col' borne man has invenua ,, machine which vends live ban .6 fishermen. The next renmmm in this direction may um 1," fish available to anglers, thus fa moving the need for spen ' hours of valuable time fishing- Brockville Recorder and. -1-1,”;

ing-as they were once in a poet's Concord landscape-then beauty is its own excuse for being. And n. white birch has plenty of ex- cuses. A young white birch in May can be as lovely as any child sharing Spring with every breath and motion, Somehow the light. on birch leaves now. a country- man thinks. is like sun on a child's head. On.k.s can be old and strong and gray-barked. They can hold the past in their boughs and be slow to feel the spring. But a young white birch in May is the tender future. And it casts the smallest shadow of any tree.-New York Herald Tribune.

"Do you no that chair?" our hostess asked. pointing to a love- firepiace. "I am going to present it to a mus- eum when I die-on account of as how it is the setting for my final- ly thinking of the right thing to say at the time instead of next week." This is the way she told the story: "I was interviewing girls who answered my ad for a maid and this one looked exactly it until she opened her mouth. if don't wash windows'. she announ- ced. '0! course not) I answered. for Venetlansl. 'Thai's all right”

Certain cynic: say that 11",. has been no real progress aim the invention of the bent hairpin We be: to differ. Let. those cynic; mull over the announcement um the new schools of Cincinnati win be equipped with Scfeechproof hlackboards. The new boards in made of rough plate. g1....g which will not permit chalk to mum, and screech as it passes over in. surface. strictly speaking, um are colored a deep green which 1. glareproof and kind to the pum" eye. We suspect that if the mm, were known. many a case of lang- ied nerves in later life could no traced to the classroom of chm. hood. Thousands still shiver u the recollection of the first um. they heard the screech produsu by a piece of chalk drawn heav. ily across the old-fashioned black. board. It. marked their lnuodiuc. tion to what Hamlet labeled "thu harsh world". It. is to be hopud that the acreechproof boards win soon be installed in every elm, room in the land. If this is done. we confidently predict that then will be a sharp drop in the in. cidence of nervous diseases and

many a neurollglst will be fomd

out of business. -Buffalo Courier-

Express.

know.

And where the land she travels

from? Away.

Far, far bf-hmd. is all that they

can 58.3.

On sunny noons upon the deok's

smooth faoe.

Ltnk'd arm in arm. how pleumt

here to pace!

Or oicr the stern reclining. watch

below

The foaming wake far widening as we go stormy nights. when wild

northwesters rave.

How proud 3 thing to fight with

wind and wavel

The dripping sailor on the reeling mast Exults to hear. and seems to wish

it past.

Where lies the land to which the

ship would so?

Far. far ahead. is all her seamen

know.

And where the land she trwois

from? Away.

Far. far behind. is all that they

can say. --Arthur Hugh Clough (1al961.)

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from his evil way: that I may for- give their iniquity and their sin.

create or restore a peace of mind. Though it cannot trouble from our -give us strength to meet it. Fam- ily worship is the key which un-

always divert lives. it can

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