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TUESDAY, JUNE ll, I946

The B. N. A. Act

During the \\':u' an amendment was made to the British North America ;\ct, and it was made so swiftly us to open the cyEs of tnany to how precarious ztrc the guarantees that the Act provides. lt also suggested the need fdr considtcring the .\ct, not indeed as rigid and unalterablc. hut zts sitincthing \\‘llU:C altcrzttitm should require :1 greater" tlt-grrce of consulta- tion with the provinces whose whole position depends upon it. ,

The tioiut is nut whether any proposed amendment is drastic or slight, desirable or un- fortunate, says the Jilin/rail (Iasvlfc, but that the procedure in cncry case 0f change should be such as to prevent any Federal government from so acting as to impair the position and rights which thc provinces possess.

The issue has rccctitlv bccn raised by the decision of the Federal Government to redis- tribute the electogal seats in Canada more near- ly in accordance with the shifts that have taken place in population. On this matter Premier Duplcssis of (Qucbcc has sent a protest to Rt. Hon. Louis St. Laurent, Nlinister of justice.

It is important to note that the p0int of Premier Duplcssis‘ protest is not the redistri- bution of seats itself, by which Quebec is cflr- tain to gain t-hc must. lt is a protest against the right of the Federal authority to alter the British North America Act when and how it sees fit, without consultation with the prov- inces WhOse position may be greatly changed by the attiendtuctits in question. The fact that in this particular cztse Quebec would be the gain- er by the amcndtncitt isgof less importance than the possibility that on another occasion it might find its position seriously impaired.

It is true that there has been n. very long and involved legal controversy as to just what constitutes the Canadian federation. One group

would not be the most desirable thing but it didn't prove unworkable before.’ Mr. Duplcs- sis’ ‘autonomy’ would be preserved. Any DID" inces which are in financial straits would be relieved. Those which do not tit-Rd, it wouldn't have it imposed on thcnt. Ontario and Que- bec members would hardly have any difficulty in approving a plan whose acceptance is made optional with the governments of their prov- inces."

Shorn Shea ring Sheep

This is how it happened, according to Mr. Patrick H. Ashby, MP. for Edmonton East. as reported in the House of Commons: "When I started out in sheep 1 was ad- vised by agricultural experts not to start with purc-breds but to buy a few good range cwes. \Vhen it came to shearing time I did have some difficulty. I started forth with a hired man. I remember that I was nearly played out catch- ing the first one, but I finally got it on its back. Then I found out I was faced with a worse job than ever before because there were four sharp feet flying around in all directions. However, I finally managed to get it up on its rump and started in to shear.

“I had no sooner got the wool off one side,” he continued, “than the sheep managed to run its front feet up under my shirt and ripped “it off my back. My little boy was jumping up and down and shouting, ‘You are winning daddy!’ I got the other side off. I was iust about to finish cutting the last little lock off the end of its tail when it got both feet up the lcgs 0f my pants. The sheep staggered off minus its coat while I sat on the ground minus my pants. The hired man called it a draw.”

— EDITORIAL NOTES —_-

St. Barnabas. I

O I i

Dominion Day, the next Dublic holiday, is not a half-and~half as was yesterday's, but a xvell-cstablished and recognized even-t.

C i l‘ W

Fires are no respccters 0f persons or buildings, but it is noticeable that hotels and churches, where people are most likely to con- gregate, are frequently the scenes 0f out- breaks.

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The Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Is- land Highlanders are all now safely home, the 3rd Battalion, "the caretakers" having arrived Saturday. The Battalion has a glorious rec- ord overscas, in the front line practically since “D" Day.

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Threats of revolution should be stcrnly dealt with by the powers-that-bc. Unfortun-

holds the opinion that at Confederation the original provinces actually surrendered their independence in order to create a power greater than themselves. The other group cqntends that the essential basis and spirit of the Com- fedoration agreement was an intimate alliance, rather than the stibmcrgencc of local autonomy.

Without entering into the details of this involved controversy, it would seem, for all practical political purposes, that the provinces cannot be expected to regard themselves simply as the creatures of the Federal authority, to be made °f llllrrtfldx as the Federal authoriy may decide. In particular, the Province of Que. bee, with its essentially distinct religious “and racial character, must regard the integrity of the British North America Act as the Only ground and protection of its position.

The claim of the‘ Dominion Government that it may alter that Act at its own discretion, 995115 tilt? Way t0 theipossibility that the pres- ent, or some subsequent Federal government may widen its own powers and decrease (hm; of the provinces if it wishes, or believe that much a reallocation of authority is in its own or the country's interest. Putting the legal coh- trovcrsy apart-and the legal claims of the Fedcrahsts are by no means concedcd——such a r-lalm. carried into practice, would undermine the confidence and unity hf the country.

I Conference Aftermath

One rcsult of the failure of the Dominion- Provincial Conference, predicts the Monetary Tintes, will be that most of the provinces, P57113135 all, will he driven hack into the field 0f duplicate taxation, not necessarily confined t0 the ordinary income lax. The Prairie Prov- inces, more or less, and the Maritimes, have no great wealth to tax it they Wfllllfi-l to. It is clearly hinted that thcy tnay tax corporate earn- mllllls 54°" 3161' leave the Drovinoe in the one Of outside COrporations or companies.

Already, there is clamor for an agree- ment bctwecn tahc Dominion government and the several provincial governments willing t0 sign. Something of that sort is not ruled out, but the Dominion, in the Times‘ opinion, will

_ never make an offer to one province which is available to all. Stippose agreements were , lldttttludcd with the scvcn provinces. They would need parliamentary sanction. If Ontario

Quebec were not included, what would

_ happen when two-thirds of the members of the " ‘_ House of Commons come from these two prov-

, M“? Such a scheme would need to be aband-

f med if, indeed, it were ever projected.

i " 'But-mtother prospect which is suggested is

-be excluded. It may come about. Hist-

‘reprat ‘itself. It may be recalled that, Hepburn engineered the breakdown of

ference, there were repercussions.

which. soon followed, the Finance

left ‘Budapest-aha was the aotemrvivlng tnetnber I-lafre, British ,. radium 1mm;

T 14.2 muscular-Janeen, - titul- blame m» lit m“ was:

atcly, at this particularly critical time we have -no Government head in whom the people have much confidence, t-he Prime Minister being overseas, and his deputy, one in whom the Provinces did not pin much faith during the recent conference. o n- a

The Poet Laureate in a brief poem ad- dressed to the Queen describes Her Gracious Majesty as the lady “who made all Britain's birds to sing." H; could have included the Empire's and Commonwealth's as well.

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John Constable, English artist, born this date I776; commenced life as a miller, and ex- hibited his first picture in the Academy in r802; he became one of England's greatest and most individual landscape artists; among his most famous works are Flatford Mill, The Leaping Horse, The Cornfield, and The Holy Wain.

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For today's foreign-bound tourists in the United States, Canada is the prime Mecca; the Dominion offers one unique advantage—it is easy to reach, says Business Week. In Can- ada, 90 per cent of the visitors come by auto. Last year no less than 17,000,000 Americans crossed the border northward. This year, 25,- 000,000, more than twice Canada's population, are expected. Many of these are week-end vis- itors from northern cities but they left behind $160,000,000 in Canada last year and will spend an all-time high in I946.

\ U I F U

In one way World War II has benefited British industry as regards fire extinguishers. Foam extinguishers have been in use for many years, but the raw materials used in this method had the‘ disadvantage of being expensive and they had to be imported from abroad. The foam-producing material had to be not only suf- ficiently stablc but also ligher than petrol. The exigencies of the war caused British scientill to study the problem and the Chemical Re- search Laboratory was successful in producing a cheap, dependable and effective agent from home raw materials. The new agent was so much better than the previous ones used that it was immediately adopted by Britain's Royal Air Force. Now, of course, production is go- ing ahead for peacethnapuxposes.

A Cabinet Minister in Hungary today has a salary roughly equivalmt to half a dollar a month. The President receives something like the equivalent of ten dollars (year. In any be Sh: medium of exchange. What was their by the Magyars. It might be used for buying a newspaper, or crowding on to an overcrowded tram, or making a telephone call. The prices of goods for sale, and there are few, are quoted in dollars. Most exchange, whether in the town! or in the country, is done by barter - a pair of chickens for a bucket of coal, a dozen eggs ,f,or a doctor’: visit.- Onc young women in

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family-told ‘Mr: John '

_ A Civil, sit-vat.’

case, Hungarian money has almost ceased to

cqui lent of Britain's i5 nofe, is called "dust"

Notes, By The Way

5'01! rnnelelau don't get what ahwld. complain: a bend lead- . Maybe because time‘; a law mains 1t! -Wlnn1pe¢ Tribune.

b Widespread “Ln mfworli urn hut-lb: equ ent ue 011 ting‘ veto-g", we are told. sarpplv situation. Per- haps welud better start to work on the climate with nwnuc bombs. —0ttewe J

owmaL There k nothing which has hap- pened yet to the crop which cun- not be by good rains from now tlll the end of July But, we will need

favorable con ittons. We have seen plenty of months of June 1n U115 cmtntny which have provided the Ideal conditions which would still

grrogsileeelggsdmop this year. —-I£llh-

In an Ontario township there's a mother, aged 16, currently receiv- ing the baby lac-nus on account o1 en infant to whom she gave birth not long since. ‘Hie mother's moth- er 1s at the some tune receiving

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the would have deprived her moth- er of the $8 per month A cynlc s ests that perhaips the infant's fa et-‘s mother also may be get- ting the bonus on his account, but. there 1s a. regrettable luck of exact Information on that. point. -The Printed Wood.

A hi; future is expected for 1'1 new and unique structural material the British plastics

Hort/past has many

side recently. eatures which make

outstanding f

nonsltp floort made 1n large q proposes. It 1s unaffected bv water, normal heat changes, most solv- ents, oil-s and organic ano dilute mineral acid-s. It. is impervious to vermin and Mute ants. Holoplu-st also has exceptionally tnsula tlon ualltles and has 1e stren th to wt stand shock without bend ng or breaking It is moreover non-in- flammable and won't support cont- bustion The basis cf holoplast 1s a special kind 2ft‘ Kraft; nper 1m- pregnated with pheno 1c resin, which ls cured 1n me ordinary way by heat and pressure

in common with most paogics or the world) are likely to e aggrieved when their motives are suspected bv forelgn- ers, and to lay that suspicion t0 cantdnkerousnens. ignorance or worse. The fact remains that 11115 country, the most. powerful ln the world, 1s certain to be sustlevl If" that fact alone. Therefore it be- hooves the United States. BS 01W of the any responsibilities o! power to fix its policies 0nd make them plain, 1n word and deed. Fear and criticism cannot be avoided. But everything that might need- lgtjsly Increase the sus clons or arouse the anger cf fore gn nations __tmme.ture boasting, pretensions to leadership no‘. warranted by the facts or supportcd by sell-rm, such sheer diplomatic ineptitude as has cost the United hfAiBS s0 deflr 1!‘! France- these must be shunned.- New York Herald Tribune.

the Prices Board firmly enforces its duoctive on shlrtis. far as we know, no satisfactory substitute for a shirt has been found. Women were able to dis- gulse the absense (‘if 8904111185 WW9 leg-do and des ite ccc-aslonal startl- Ing do led fects, the stuff W05 y satisfactory/k But that: of thlng would an odd sub- stitute for a shirt, and the men who were beginning m have to!- tured dreams about palnttne their tors-cs wlll ball with relief the re- turn of the shut. 1t will not he anything like the old when one get quarter-sizes. different. sleeve-lengths, twelves or elghteens. e half-noun atzya bipe- and 1f one pattern dldnt 09969-1 u; me buyer, there were otmers from which to choose However. 1n a few week; thgfe will be shirts it. ls sold. and that will make most men oeu- tent to wait for the happy day when fllgy win b.5- able m ck and chQQnC -and flu-d shirts 1h sleeves that neither hide titre hand nor cram? soon Whig

Americana

We hope

see how W“?

bewltdtlnflly she temeveamer h! and netted her back iutr. FL-lke it?” she asked tho commander sold he loved lt -New

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better than usual growing oondltlone to produce a better than mags‘? ma?“ average crop. e are under a K ' - hondl now 1n that though sown 813 9'4“ 5b- eu1y_ e 55 1a due w “n, Vancouver, B. C.

you'll be shocked U!’

days, cf course “h”

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APPRECIATION

-A group o! former Islanders now llvtng 1n Vancouver Wllh to convey their appreciation to the writer of "Ellen's Diary" for the delightful entertainment ILIDHIQL- them on rea of the varloua activities of farm life on the dear old Island, all so truthfully por- trayed in her writings. bang life to "Ellen's Diary"!

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Bound For Britain

(By C. P. Fraser, Haltmx Oblon- lcle)

"Don't"—- that ls, unless you pen to be a. German general trav-

t-he bah bonus on account of her m - t t _ Wm, human m“ errtng (laughter. It the 15-year-old ‘gnsgwmbaakl; em mo,“ “m,” u“ gtrl had tuned a lawful nusband ‘my it smka me avenge dvmm

bound for Britain and the "Aqui- tanla". once queen of the Atlantic run. 1s still a troopshlp in every sense of the term.

Board the ship at Halifax and the bore. bar- rook-like lounge. the discolored paint and the carpetless floors No palms and soft music. no page boys ruchlml about with ‘ uquets and last minute messages-not In tact, to remind you of the luxurious seridce of ocean travel tire-Will’ sty e.

We were fortunate. Only three of us occupy one cabin. Others are crowded as many as 51x to a state- roe/m whlch 1n less strenuous days did service at best. for two. Nor 1a there much to remlnd one of we- 1939 travel when the steward pokes hls head 1n your door at 7 tun. and bowls. "Time to get up. gents. and vou better ‘hurry 1f you want ariiy breakfast."

What the steward leaves unsold the binning public address system makes up for. Orders Instructions. war-rungs, advlce pour forth all clay long 1n a steady stream. mostly 1n English, 1n German for the benefit. o! 2000 uniformed members of the former Wehrmacht. Luft- waffe and the German Navy, 1200 of them officers. One of the latter was Romaners right hand man 1n the North Afrfcan campaign. and he still sports a inert look-in! uniform. red habs, and the lneignla of a Nazi General. He 1t ls filial swanks about 1n a first class cabin with private balth while certain Canedlon civilians travel seoondl

The Gemmns are setzretzated from the rest of the passengers by barb- ed wlre partitions 0n decks and passageways .F0r the most part theyre a healthy looking lot. and according to some of the Veterans‘ Guard who do the escort duty. many of the Helnles want. to come back to Canada to settle, Awar- ently some semi-official p011 of their views 1s taken before they leave Canadian shores. 0nd this gesture has been interpreted by the Germans themselves as tanta- mount; to an Invitation to return later on!

Food on shipboard 1s adequate nsleta

As but. monotonous. Breakfast o0

alternattvely of stewed prunes or dehydrated peaches, oatmeal. nunus mtilk 0r cream other than the sort that comes out of cans. bacon and

eggs (usually 200d). one hard white roll. and tea or coffee. Lunch 1s been sown or pea loup.

tusuolly cod but d1 on

men-u as sole meander halibut. salmon. or some other {lament of the chef's tmagi-natlon)‘ or bralsed ox-tall. pigs’ lmuckles and cabbage. a dessert, vtlnlch mtght be cus- tard pudding and tisuaily is. Din- n-sr isn't much better. and a single menu card does for the entire mree meals. with the whole dqy’: listing set forth at once. a0 you can know at breakfast. exactly what youre going to have for that night.

Paeaengers Personalities

Count. Jean de I-Ieuteclooquu. French Ambassador to Canada. and

the elbow. — m‘ the Countess de Keuteclooque on dud. that; way homatonmncaonéeave -——-—- enma , urn- We hid l" "bk" l”f""l1 Q," ,8 1n: tiriceccmeiihagen after a visit to theatre 0w 0th" {liable-Ff ° l, the Uruted States. A genial tnvel- glmnxléliggirtfingwnw‘, '5” wpem°pafi ling companton, looking rather fills/firms bud‘ t magma like a Viking for his plug- n.n . lbw i mtwdxfgeiictlwitbdi-nh “saith: row y ' t ' m; tapped her on the shoulder. "Madam." he sold. would” g9“ mind taking off hat‘! n}! - edtmdroidhles Iwould.“ Not no lfA-Iy this time the m!" u," ennfdldnbpa tom _j m, ma; your ha . a 'e 88" him e. W1 eflng look. ‘Its aueh msm‘y e skllnng lfbthe hat 0301350 ____ mi", Wlmm M {km ,, 0,,» Th, This u the me use a mortal mgngudhewould call an usher Th ml-n-~i , o would m.“ he, ‘my, e barges: mle who mes 1n hll ca - P: m 1:135:10; m k Si’; 0! 311:7"? uve tiu-oudi his pun) m“, t. an . out. irthful new! Al"! P"! "WY- , all!) in the fifth row. “ma; o"; mdmntquiftoflie I othlaso- that I r- .- - - - . g g m; 1t on." The netlone and throttles be bu I “m” w“ g1 gonad and N111

destroyed ‘hi!!! PPOVM l!”

And m‘: flradownfau o! his car- Of wbfte and and yellow, creed raeo