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rmnar, uovumau so. my Outrage To Democracy

As indicated in a recent deslliﬁch fmm Oi‘ tawa, the National Emergency Powers Bill whit-h the Ring Governmctit has asked Parlia- ment to sanction is causing Y8SOLllldlll§Z repercus- sions. And no wonder! Here is a Govern- ment with only 39 per céiit of the Dominion vote behind it, with only 126 seats l" 3 2A5‘ member House, seeking not only aiuextension of the dictatorial powers it had during war- time, but far wider powers than it or any other administration ever exercised under democracy befork.

This ltjnciit is no mere figure of speech. The preamble of the bill states in part: ‘

.. .. . it is necessary for the peace. order and good goveriuncnt of Canada that during the period of transition to normal from the excep- tional conditions existing during the wair, with the attendant dangers and responsibilities for the nation u a whole, acts and things done and authorized and regulations and vorders made under the War Measures Act be continued 1n force and that the govémor in council be authorized to do and authorize during the said period such further acts and t-hings and make such further orders and regulations as he may by reason of the national emergency resulting from the war deem necessary or advisable for the security, defence, peace, order and welfare of Canada.

The bill pretends to place the War Meas- ures Act in peace-time gar , but in point 0f fact it goes much further. The Government now seeks authority over all matters pertaining to: (a) "production. manufacture, trading, exporta- tion and importation”; (b) “transportation by ai-r, road, rail or water"; (c) "supply and dlis- tribution of goods and services, including the fixing of prices”; (d) “employment, including salaries and wages”; (e) “appropriations, con- trol, forfeiture and disposition of property and of the use thereof, including the control of rent- als and occupation”; (f) “entry into Canada, ex- clusion and deportation, and revocation of na- tionality.”

The second last clause, be it noted, extends to forfeiture of property — the most extreme of socialist proposals. The last clause is an outright denial of the rights of British citizenship.

Not only does the Government seek all this authority; it also wishes the ‘power to "author- ize such acts and thinqs"—-in other word's to delegate the authority to its underlings. Par- liament is to be supplanted for one year, and the bureaucracy which has been built up during the period of war is to be perpetuated on a wider scale.

In the yvorcls of Mr. Diefenbakcr, who dis- cussed the bill very ably in the House of Com- mons last Friday, there is "not a field of 5co- nomic welfare, not a. field of business, not a field of life itself in all its ramifications that the Governor in Council will not have absolute power over, as will those to whom he will dele- gate the power.” This is blank cheque legisla- tion with IQVNRBGIICCl _

Under the proposals as drafted, the only right which Parliament will possess will be the right to determine supply. It will have set aside the national constitution, relinquisbingnot only its own powers, rights and privileges but the autonomous rights of the Projinces as well.

Once approved, the Dominion-Provincial Conference now assembled at Ottawa would be nothing morethan a formality. The Provincial Premiers would He entirely in the band's of the Federal Cabinet.

But that is not all. Still another and un- oonsidered molt was stressed by Mr. Diefen- baker. If approval were given to the bill,~ Par- liament would be giving the effect-of law to all the Orders-in-Council passed since the be- ginning of the war and not yet revoked. It would mean that orders which the House has never seen, secret orders which the Government repeatedly has refused to produce for scrutiny, orders which have set aside the courts and which deny the citizen's right of appeal, would be law in the land. Never before has any Par- liament been asked to do any such thing.

It is no wonder that such a bill is causing. a furore at Ottawa and among the Provincial Premiere and others now assembled in the Fed- Ill capital. It is inconceivable that it should ever pass in its unmodified form. It is almost equally inconceivable how it ever entered the heads of any Canadian government to think that it could be passed. .

Compulsory Voting

Possibility of introducing compulsory vot- ing in Canada has been suggested many times ‘during recent years. _

The world has an outstanding example of the-writing of the compulsory vote in theAiIa-

Avooording-to information given by V. F.

' ._votbig_'iils'o solve: the troublesome prob- rgglitra ' The‘ oodles! series of elec- ‘ s about name: missing from

the,’ ult of the voter’ i cllﬂltieted by the com:

at first glance. About 95 per cent of the de- linquents are able to give valid explanations, including sickness, distance from the PQlh-‘Of religious or conscientious objections. The Australian chief ieleetoral officer says it is found, necessary to fine only ﬁlm" WW l!!!’ oent _of those who do not vote.

St.

Today is St. Andrew's Day, Observed by all true Scots and by all in whose veins Scot- tish blood runs. The observance suffers noth- ing in Fifeartiness through distance from the land in which it took its rise. If anything, dis- tance adds- zeal to the celebration, and the Scot several generations removed from the “land o’ cakes"~thrills to t_he music of the pipes and pays his homage to the haggis, with as great de- votion as the Scot a few weeks out from the home land. l Tonight a special treat is in store for those attending the St. Andrew's Day dinner under the auspices of the Caledonian Club. The toast to “The Day" will be replied to by Hon. Thane AfCampbell, Chief lustice of the Province. Other speakers will be His Honour Lieu- tenant Governor Bernard, Maj. D. L. hlathie- son, K.C., who will reply to the toast to the Armed Services, and President loseph W. Mac- Donald. There promises to be a large attend- ance, and an evening of rare enjoymﬂ _d entcrtaintnent.

—EDIT,ORIAL NOTES-q-

Andrew's Day Dinner

Government hog breeding stations and

chicken hatcherics should go well together. m it s n:

No sooner docs one delegation return from Ottawa than another goes. Yet we have sup- posedly representative government.

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If Princess Elizabeth comes to Canada be- fore the Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice leave on return to England in February, then there is little chance of Her Royal Highness visiting this Province.

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British children will receive nearly 15,000 pounds of chocolates and candy from the peo- ple of New South Wales this Christmas. The shipment, totalling 40o tons, includes puddings. cakes, meat, honey, cheese, dripping and soap. It was collected through the Food for Britain appeal of the Lord Nlayor of Sydney.

The bureaucracies are beginning to dis- appear. Oil Controller G. R. Cottrelle has re- tired, and with him goes the oil cogtrol organ- ization which provided an adeqhate supply of petroleum products during the ‘var. Mr. F. M. Connell, metal‘ controller, also has resigned, which means the dissolution of the Metal Con- trol Branch of the‘ baunitioris Department.

Principal James, of McGill quoted, to the Turgeon Committee on Reconstruction, on one occasion, an estimate that it would take all the food produced in Britain, the United States, Canada, and the Argentine Republic to pro- vide full nutrition for the people of those coun- tries alone. It is against this sort of background of realism that all plans have to be made for sharing insufficient food supplies in the world, and which has no doubt had its influence with Wﬂilliﬂlltmfs decision to abandon rationing of meat. c a 4 u The flag issue is capable of becoming a very heated one. Mr. King offered a most in- telligent solution, in his remarks to the Cana- dian Legion, in which he recommended that the national flag should contain the Union jack in chief. with, in the fly, a large maple leaf substituted for the present almost inde- cipherable coat of arms. If there is to be any. change, the design submitted by Mr. j. LeRoy Holman appears to be the more suitable and acceptable.» v n- m u- 4-

Dedicatcd to Major-General Chisholm, dep- uty Minister of Health, Ottawa: From the fam- ous editorial, “ls there a Santa Claus?" by Mr. Frank Church in New York Sun, Sept. 2r, i897:

well not believe in fairies. . . Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are ‘those which neither children nor men can sec. No Santa Claus! Thank Godl he lives and he lives for ever.”

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The Feast of St. Andrew; the Saint was the son of Jonas, a fisherman of Bethsaida. in Galilee, and was the brother of Simon Peter, but whether elder or younger, we are not infonned in scripture; he was one of the two disciples of ‘john the Baptist to whom the latter ex- claimed as Jesus passed by: “Behold the Lamb of God"; on hearing these words, the two in- dividuals followed jesus, and having accosted him, were invited by the Saviour, to remain with him that day; thereafter, Andrew went in quest of his brother Simon Peter, and brought him to Christ, a circumstance which has invested the former apostle with a special pre-eminence; St.

and Russia. _ ' I I U O

In these days, when the public debt, is equivalent to nearly two-and-a-half years‘ revenue, every Canadian might well consider what would be his personal family position if he found himself confronted 'with a debt the equivalent of 29 months’ previous earnings. A nation basically is composed of a large gfoup of families, andwhat is true of each compon- ent family should be true also of the nation as a whole. The natural impulse of the head of a family in debt would be to get out anddig. h work just a little harder and longer. to~ tag in the extra revenue. Added impetus tot {goal of debt reduetioirmight‘ well be A ‘fmiii

reseecLby a German economist _vlli_.

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umtlnc! e opinion amt-gran o Wai- II cola! have been avoided. ‘l.‘:..“..:.°.....““" t’. one: ;"..';“.....‘°‘i a . ggelggl. Undberghbrantford Ex-

"l: use current crop of young ﬁrm would learn to be honest with them. selves. face hm! work u a chal- lenge, and not look for so many shortcuts in life. the world could have l. society based upon real val- ue; instead of moduli-Exchange.

It in believed in Tokyo that Emperor Hlrohito is ‘prepared to sail, or hocle, his jewes to secure money wherewith to buy food for the starving J anese millions. now reduced to or age can rations. It is a good i ea. We thoroughly ap- prove-St. Catharines Standard.

A ooventy-yearmld Bertie town-- ship farmer predicts a late fail, short winter and early spring be- cause of the shortage o wanuts and hlckorv nuts and other pres- ent details of natures calendar. And because of the shortage of coal and the housing situation and a few other details, let's hope he's right-Ottawa Citizen.

Research scientists in Britain are using penicillin to cure dairy cattle of mastitis, one of their most. ser- ious diseases, reports the Manches- i181’ Guardian. The results are "a1. most too good no be true," says Professor Scott Watson. who is Chief Education and Advisory 0f- flcer to the Ministry of Agricul- ture. United Kingdom Information Office

White races are not reallv white. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the skin-color is actual- ly a combination of yellow and black pigments, creamy whit/e ris- sues and red tints from the blood circulating through the skin. In al- binos, the black pigment is missing and only a small proportion of the yellow pigment is present-Britan-

ca.

Pressed wood logs. Made from waste which formerly went into the plant's boilers, are being uro- duced by a lumber company in Northern Ontario, and are said to

from which they have been salvag- ed. This is the sort of industrial ingenuity that will find new mar. kets-Hamilton Spectator,

The New Ynr World-Telegram says “the Public sick of strikes" and cites a recent poll on the sub- {ect of compulsory arbitration of a-bor disputes Seventy-nine per cent, favored ilhlS compulsory action, said the Worldlrelegram. and 70 per, cent were for special labor courts. to which disputes would have to be submitted.—St. Thomas Times-Journal

The mere aoquirement of know- ledke is not in itself education: it is the manner in which the know- ledge is ac uired and the back.

round whic is implicit in the

nowledge imparted which gives eduoation its value. At resent both vocational and academc education produce too many men who have no knowledke or love of virtue, and who for that reason are less than they could be, and ready for any mischief from indolenre to anarchy, -—Peterborough Examiner

If Palestine ii to become a sanc- tuary and not a battleground-and the cause of ‘other battleground:- it will not be enough to lecture Lhe British on the shortcomings of their adminstration of the man. date They must be supported, dip- lomatioally. in an effort to reach an accommodation with the Arabs which will allow the Jews to make a real homeland of Palestine. And they must be assured of military sup rt if trouble comes. — New Yo: Heraldlrribune.

The decision of Mr. Justice J. Keillor Mackay, tn declaring void a clause in a deed which stipulat- ed that a certain parcel of land was "not to be sold to Jews or er. sons of objection-able nationaLty," was on the noblest level of juris- prudence, It was in the main stream of the humane tradition of British Justice, and in setting a noble precedent moved forward sub- stantially the achievement of the social equality 0,! mankind. -Tor- onto Globe and Mail.

Santa Clan: in not. a iumby-puni- hy escape from the world. He is

companion who brings relaxation from workaday cares. He is more necessary to a sane world than any invention of the 20th century. Cer- tainly, u can't see the true Santa Claus. ou can't see friendship or kindiiness either. But you can see the effects when they have paid a visit. The rofessor probably would be the firs to deny that such feel- ings should be erased from the earth. No, the time hasn't. come to abolsih Bantu Claus. We need him more than even-Minneapolis star- Journal.

Canulluu, when in unmixed ompany, retty well wltn Canada. Certainy the Canadian Club members turn out an im rer- sfve rendition. The trouble sartl when the ladies, oin the gentlemen. ‘Regardless of e enthusiasm at ‘the beginning, the anthem bogs down quicklynandhltong! lzehiorexélhuti- singers are a o "moo" meat of em are reduced to mere lip moving. A friend who known about. such think! bllmﬂ Ill this on oodprmoe Ivory audience,

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l ed veterans in Montreal Eingoliyin the bush?" The fate that bafell the 111W World War was elm vwwd. II this too the reward at a Irate- iul country gives to those who. d! its defense, have trmrversed the orbit of death?

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Whitehall Notebook . By James McCook, Canadian Prue sun Writer

While conference halls resound to discussions of who shall and shall not have the secrets of the atomic bomb. the 0rd doner can walk into , stationery office. lav down 2e dd (55 cents) and march away with almost all the "secrets" under his

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A booklet. “Atomic Energy." traces the story of develoilmen of the bomb mainly in the Un ted States but with the help of adian and United. Kingdom scient- ists It first was Published lzv the United States Government which

‘t republication by the office here. by Prof H1). BXIIVY-h.‘ of the Department of Princeton University. NJ . it frankly reveals "the basic scientific knowledge on which the several, developments were based." All pertinent infor- mation which could be released wthout imlurimz national security has been included and that in- formation. in effect tells how the bomib was conceived and develop-

Liberal hopes: Liberals now hold only 12 of the 640 seats in the Hons.- of Commons. but their hopes for the future are high.

Lt -Col. Frank Byers. M.P.. one of Field Marshal Montgom- ery's staff officers. set forth his opinion of what his party should do in a recent. address. He said must opiate within Che next two vears "a. party which will be regarded throughout the country as capable of forming an alternative government . "

The Liberals must form a

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THE POETB HEART

The poet's heart growl faint in times of war,

Theirs not the signature for barbs of hate.

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war‘: wrong And triumph in the certainty of song. '

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restric one, there is no ,. com taint. It is port of the afterl- rnat of a war in which blood and treasure was spent regardless. Peo- gle with useless mone in the anks are not too prou to receive a used garment or a few pound: of food dainties. It is a of the price of freedom, an they pay wltlhout complaint.

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Meat. rationing is down to the value of 1s 3d a. week, and there are queues for such unrationed commodities as soap and salt. Even for the scant clothing al- lowed under the ration regulations. no wrapping paper is an plied. A lady ptuchasing underclLo _g must

a . _ or as with her. or bundle the stuff un- der r arm.

" rig down London Road (one o1 Liverpool's most famous shopping streets)? says the inform- ant, "I ed one lady with a pair of corsets tucked under her arm, and two others carrying home saucepan: unwrapped. We have to bike our own newspapers or other‘ wrappers with us each time we go to the butcher or the flshmonzer. for they do not supply wrapping paper."

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